![]() ![]() Sincere and well-paced, with the backdrop of a tumultuous period in history, the story is not easily forgotten. Her writing has also been seen in Highlights for Children, as well as several literary publications. Her first prose novel, The Fortune of Carmen Navarro, based on the novella and opera Carmen, was published in 2011. ) novel a strong sense of setting and reflects the teenager's conflicting emotions about adulthood: “I had to decide/ to stay safe in the harbor, like my father,/ or to push out to sea, like Gramps.” Her observations also betray an engaging sense of humor (Denise, her older sister, “has no interest in anything/ she can't smoke, wear, or sing”). Ringside, 1925: Views from the Scopes Trial Pieces of Georgia and Kaleidoscope Eyes. ![]() Lyza's thoughtful narration in verse gives Bryant's ( Ringside 1925 ![]() Lyza and her best friends Carolann and Malcolm get to work locating-and then hiding-the treasure. When her mother walked out, “our family began to unravel/ like a tightly wound ball of string.” Then Lyza's grandfather dies, leaving her a box filled with cryptic maps and clues, which she learns relate to the pirate treasure of Capt. Growing up in New Jersey during the Vietnam War, 13-year-old Lyza has some battles of her own (“Whoever said 'the baby of the family/ gets all the sympathy'/ was clearly not ![]()
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