Raymond Arroyo Speaks to 6th and 7th Graders
I got a chance to pose with Raymond Arroyo just before he left A couple of weeks ago, Judith Lafitte, from the local independent bookstore Octavia Books , and I were lamenting the lack of authors for tweens and teens traveling to New Orleans this past year. Since 2010, Octavia has sent many authors to my school to make presentations to the students. In October, we had someone scheduled who eventually had to cancel due to a family emergency. We were crushed but certainly understood. Since there are only two and half months left of the school year, I thought that this would be a year of no face to face author visits. The day after that phone call with Judith, she sends me an email saying that Raymond Arroyo, a native New Orleanian, would be visiting the bookstore and wanted to do a school visit. Even though I had little time to prepare, and I was out of the building two days last week for a conference and ended up out of school a third day due to weather, we wer...