The message of self-determination was incredibly powerful and influential on middle school me. By the end of the novel, Charlotte rejects her family’s expectations of how she should live her life and literally becomes the captain of her own ship. Charlotte begins to question the power structures of the society in which she’s been raised and eventually takes part in a mutiny on a tyrannical captain. Set during the 1830s, thirteen-year-old Charlotte has been raised to be a proper, upper-class English lady until a fateful sea voyage where she has all of her assumptions about class, race, and gender turned upside down. The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi had a huge impact on me as a middle schooler. Talk about one book that made an impact on you. SWEET BLACK WAVES is the first in a YA fantasy trilogy retelling of Tristan and Iseult that shines a light on the legend’s true heroine––the princess’s cousin, Branwen––and her ancient healing magic, pitched as Graceling meets Mists of Avalon. Sweet Black Waves is her debut young adult novel. She is the author of The Myth of Morgan la Fey and holds a PhD in Medieval Literature from the University of Cambridge. She has spent the past two decades working as a journalist and academic in Europe and Asia. Kristina Pérez is a half-Argentine/half-Norwegian native New Yorker. I absolutely adored her debut novel, Sweet Black Waves, and I know all of you will love it as well. I am thrilled to introduce my friend and fellow Class of 2k18 author, Kristina Pérez.
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