From The Bookshelves: Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo

Looking for your weekend read? Try Elizabeth Acevedo’s Clap When You Land. Here’s the teaser:

Camino Rios lives for the summers when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic. But this time, on the day when his plane is supposed to land, Camino arrives at the airport to see crowds of crying people…
In New York City, Yahaira Rios is called to the principal’s office, where her mother is waiting to tell her that her father, her hero, has died in a plane crash.
Separated by distance—and Papi’s secrets—the two girls are forced to face a new reality in which their father is dead and their lives are forever altered.
And then, when it seems like they’ve lost everything of their father, they learn of each other.

In the New York Times profile on Acevedo, she explains how she was inspired by the tragedy of American Airlines Flight 587 crash and it’s impact on New York City’s Dominican community as well as her own yearly travels from NYC to the DR.

-KitJ