So Totally Emily Ebers by Lisa Yee

I literally just walked in the door from meeting Lisa Yee at the local Barnes and Noble. I don't often go to author events in stores, but last week my friend EJ told me she would speaking only a few miles from my house. I have been reading Lisa Yee's blog and have been charmed by her wit and enthusiasm and, most importantly, her Peep Wars, so I did want to meet her and introduce myself.

Lisa Yee stopped at our Barnes and Noble as part of the book tour for her new novel, So Totally Emily Ebers. If you're familiar with Millicent Min and Stanford Wong, you will know that Emily Ebers is the third book in this series, and that you will find out what happened during that single summer from Emily's point of view.

Tonight, Lisa tried a little something new: reading passages from each of the three books that portrayed the same events from different characters point of view. That was fun. The audience consisted of about twenty people, filling the nook that Barnes and Noble made available. Besides me and EJ, there was a group of Asian students from a literature class, a few families, and one girl who had her hand up between excerpts, asking questions or making astute comments about the characters.

After the reading, the small group asked a surprisingly large number of questions. Actually, I'm not sure why I was surprised. I don't know how many questions people usually ask. And then, of course, people had Lisa sign their books. At the end, I introduced myself and was pleasantly surprised that Lisa seemed familiar with Shen's Books. When famous people know of you, does that make you famous too?

So Totally Emily Ebers by Lisa Yee

Tags: children's books Millicent Min Lisa Yee