Writer's Talk Featuring Children's and Young Adult Author Misa Sugiura

Come meet author Misa Sugiura, who will be reading and signing her latest middle-grade fantasy book Momo Arashima Steals the Sword of the Wind. This book is perfect for young fans of the Aru Shah and Fablehaven series. To pre-order your copy of the book, click here. This special event is presented by the Library Shop and is part of Comic-Con @ San Diego Public Library programming. FREE and open to all.

About the book: All Momo wants for her twelfth birthday is a "normal" life-a life like everyone else's. At home, she has to take care of her absentminded widowed mother. At school, kids ridicule her for mixing up reality with the magical stories her mother used to tell her. But then Momo's mother falls gravely ill, and a death hag straight out of those childhood stories attacks Momo at the mall, where she's rescued by a talking fox . . . and "normal" goes out the window.

About the author: Misa Sugiura’s ancestors include a poet, a priestess, a samurai, and a stowaway. She was born and raised in Chicagoland but eventually found her way to her true home in Northern California, where she lives and writes under a giant oak tree with her husband, two sons, and a cat named Mouse. Momo Arashima Steals the Sword of the Wind is her first middle-grade novel and was inspired by the gods and monsters of her parents’ home country, Japan.