Susan Lynn Meyer

Archive for April, 2017

For Readers of Black Radishes and Skating with the Statue of Liberty: The French Resistance

The French Resistance

A Guest Post by Educator Catherine Maryse Anderson

 

Black Radishes, the novel that precedes Skating with the Statue of Liberty, offers readers a look into the everyday people who risked their lives for the … Read More

Posted on 04/14/2017 09:00 am | Leave a comment
 

For Readers of Skating with the Statue of Liberty: Tin Can Drives

Tin Can Drives

A Guest Post by Educator Catherine Maryse Anderson

In the final chapter of Skating with the Statue of Liberty, Gustave and September Rose get “into a long line of kids carrying crates and bags full … Read More

Posted on 04/11/2017 08:00 am | Leave a comment
 

For Readers of Skating with the Statue of Liberty: Anti-Semitism in the United States in the 1940s

Anti-Semitism in the United States in the 1940s

A Guest Post by Catherine Maryse Anderson

 

Susan Lynn Meyer’s novel Skating With the Statue of Liberty opens in 1942 on board a transport ship bound for America. Gustave and his … Read More

Posted on 04/08/2017 09:12 pm | Leave a comment