Her next book, THE LOST GIRL, will be out in February 2018. She teaches at the Hamline University's Masters of Fine Arts in Writing for Children and Young Adults, and lives in Minneapolis. The brilliant way that Anne Ursu weaves these threads makes it so that one doesn’t exist without the other. In the same way the Alice in Wonderland criticizes English artistocracy and One Hundred Years of Solitude reflects Latin American history, you could say that The Real Boy is the history of certain first world countries like the United States. She is also the recipient of a McKnight Fellowship. The Real Boy is a book that combines perfectly the macro and the micro: the larger world-building that affects all characters as well as its protagonist Oscar’s deeply moving personal story. There are just so many layers to this richly imagined fantasy book. Anne Ursu is the author of several fantasies for young readers, including THE REAL BOY, which was longlisted for the National Book Award, and BREADCRUMBS, which was named as one of the best books of the year by Publishers Weekly, Amazon, and School Library Journal. She teaches at the Hamline University's Masters of Fine Arts in Writing for Children and Young Adults, and lives in Minneapolis. The Real Boy, Anne Ursu's follow-up to her widely acclaimed and beloved middle grade fantasy Breadcrumbs, is a spellbinding tale of the power we all wield, great and small. She is also the recipient of a McKnight Fellowship.

The Real Boy by Anne Ursu