New situations – where maybe we feel a little bit uncomfortable.Ĭan involve travel, for those who are privileged enough to be able to afford Said: “Feel the fear and do it anyway!” I hope young people struggling withĪlso hope the book helps readers realize the importance of putting ourselves in Isn’t necessarily a reason not to try something. The main message I hope kids take away from the story is that feeling scared What do you hope kids take away from the story? Runs Sweet: A Young Woman’s Story of Love, Loss and Survival by Jasminaĭervisevic-Cesic and The Bosnia List: A Memoir of War, Exile, and Return by Ordered some old magazines on eBay so that I could see first-hand what kind ofĪlso read a number of memoirs about the war, including T he River Runs Salt, It was amazing how manyĬourse, I did also want to do research – specifically on the Bosnian war. Written to them and put them together in a folder. Were no emails in those days, but my parents had saved the letters I had So my first source of information was my diaries and my letters to my parents I have kept a diary since I was in 8th grade, and my year in Vienna was no different. Period, or did you rely on your memories from the time when you lived in Vienna? Did you need to do any research to recreate the The Thing I'm Most Afraid Of is set in 1993. Her other books include The Jigsaw Jungle. The book is set in 1993 in Vienna, Austria-a city Levine lived in for a year, working as an au pair. Kristin Levine is the author of The Thing I'm Most Afraid Of, a new middle grade novel for kids.
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