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Melanie Crowder

Biography

Melanie Crowder

Melanie Crowder is the author of National Jewish Book Award finalist and ILA Notable Book for a Global Society AUDACITY, as well as A NEARER MOON and PARCHED. She holds an MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Melanie lives with her family on Colorado’s Front Range where she has worked as an educator for more than a decade.

Melanie Crowder

Books by Melanie Crowder

by Melanie Crowder - Fiction, Young Adult 12+

It's 1999 in Bolivia, and Francisco's life consists of school, soccer, and trying to find space for himself in his family's cramped yet boisterous home. But when his father is arrested on false charges and sent to prison by a corrupt system that targets the uneducated, the poor and the indigenous majority, Francisco and his sister are left with no choice: They must move into prison with their father. There, they find a world unlike anything they've ever known, where everything has its price. With their lives upended, Francisco faces an impossible decision: break up the family and take his sister to their grandparents in the Andean highlands, or remain together in the increasingly dangerous prison.