scholastic – Page 3 – Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch

Asking questions and listening to answers

Christina Cosolino, thanks so much for the questions about why I write what I write in your blog post here.

This review made my day

Thank you, Becky, for this wonderful review of Under Attack.

I am particularly gratified with this paragraph:

My thoughts: What a novel!!!! Truly I cannot do the book justice. It’s an incredible read from cover to cover. I am not surprised–I’d expect nothing less from Skrypuch. She excels at everything–writing, plotting, characterization. But it is the characterization that particularly wows me every time. Because though it shouldn’t be rare, it mostly is. The depth of characterization is outstanding. It isn’t just that there’s depth and substance of the main character, but it is how expansive the characterization is. There’s no shortcuts, no character too small to not get treated as important. It makes it impossible not to get invested and thoroughly absorbed in the story.

Thanks for the interview!

It was a pleasure to speak with Sérgio about my brand new book, Under Attack. Thanks so much for the interview!

Author Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch Confronts War and Survival in Under Attack

First presentations for Under Attack

Under Attack will be published tomorrow, but I got to do two presentations at one of my all-time favorite schools — Riverside Elementary in Suwanee GA with one of my all-time favorite library media specialists, Kristin Bartholomew!! The students were absolutely fabulous and it was a great way to kick off 2025.