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BlogTalkRadio Interview: Greg Leitich Smith on the Peshtigo School Novels

By Cynthia Leitich Smith

Greg Leitich Smith talks about new editions of his Peshtigo School novels:

Ninjas, Piranhas and Galileo was a Parents’ Choice Gold Award winner, Junior Library Guild selection and ALA Popular Paperback. It’s companion, Tofu and T.rex, was a finalist for the Texas Reading Association Golden Spur Award and Writers’ League of Texas Book Award.

Order Ninjas, Piranhas and Galileo and Tofu and T.rex, both comedies featuring academically gifted kids at set at the fictional Peshtigo School of Chicago. The books were originally published by Little, Brown.

Greg also is the author of Chronal Engine (Clarion, 2012), a dinosaur time-travel adventure, and the forthcoming Little Green Men at the Mercury Inn (Roaring Brook, 2014), which is about what happens after a UFO appears over Cape Canaveral.