Shovan, Laura: - Laura Shovan is the author, with Saadia Faruqi, of A Place at the Table , a Sydney Taylor NoTable book.
She lives with her family in Maryland, where she is a longtime poet-in-the-schools for the Maryland State Arts Council..
Her second children\'s novel, Takedown , published recently and her novels sit on over half a dozen state reading lists.
Her debut middle-grade novel, The Last Fifth Grade of Emerson Elementary , was a NCTE 2017 NoTable Verse Novel, a Bank Street College of Education Best Children\'s Book of the year, and won a Cybils Award for poetry, among other recognition.
Shovan, Laura: - Laura Shovan is the author, with Saadia Faruqi, of A Place at the Table , a Sydney Taylor NoTable book