Last week, young adult author Maureen Johnson posted a challenge on Twitter: take a book and redesign the cover by switching the gender of the author. For example, what would the cover of Trackers look like if it were written by one “Patricia Carman” rather than Patrick Carman? Or how might the cover of The Scorpions of Zahir change if Christopher – not Christine – Brodien-Jones were the author?
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By Rebecca Stead.
2010 Newbery Winner
As her mother prepares to be a contestant on the 1970s television game show, "The $20,000 Pyramid," a twelve-year-old New York City girl tries to make sense of a series of mysterious notes received from an anonymous source that seems to defy the laws of time and space.
