If you are looking for the school guide for Each of Us a Desert, you can find it here. If you are looking for the school guide for Anger Is A Gift, you can find it here. Please use the contact form to reach out to Mark about contacting their publicists at Tor Teen (YA), Harper Collins (MG), or Disney.įor tour information, as well as info on how to book Mark for appearances, please see the Tour page for all info on school visits, please visit the School Visits page. Mark is represented by DongWon Song of the Howard Morhaim Literary Agency. Please contact DongWon for all blurb requests and opportunities. When not writing, they are trying to pet every dog in the world. They are also the co-author (with Rick Riordan) of THE SUN AND THE STAR: A NICO DI ANGELO ADVENTURE. Agent: DongWon Song, Howard Morhaim Literary Agency.Mark Oshiro (they/them) is the award-winning author of the young adult books ANGER IS A GIFT (2019 Schneider Family Book Award), EACH OF US A DESERT, and INTO THE LIGHT, as well as their middle grade books THE INSIDERS, YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE, DAVID BRAVO, and STAR WARS HUNTERS: BATTLE FOR THE ARENA. Oshiro deftly captures the simmering rage that ultimately transforms Moss from a quiet teenager to a committed activist against a brutal, menacing system. This event and several police assaults on students lead to organizing, with the community’s fear building to a crescendo in a planned walkout gone awry. In one improbable event that affects the story’s plausibility, a boy with metal pins in his knee suffers a severe injury as a result of being forced to walk through a school metal detector. Yet violent incidents continue to threaten the community’s well-being.

A warm, mutually respectful relationship with his mother, an extended network of friends of diverse genders, sexual orientations, and family makeup, and a budding romance with Javier, a cute Latino comic book artist, all indicate a hopeful future. Sixteen-year-old Moss Jeffries, a gay African-American student attending run-down West Oakland High School, has experienced panic attacks since police shot his father six years earlier.

Oshiro, creator of the Mark Does Stuff website, takes readers on an emotional roller-coaster in this powerful and timely debut novel that conveys a community’s bitter experience living within a culture of white supremacy.

Anger is a gift by mark oshiro