More than 200 people attended a launch party last week for The Water
Wars by Cameron Stracher (Sourcebooks Fire), at 200 Orchard in New York
City. Among the crowd cheering on the new YA dystopian novel: (l. to r.)
Lisa Von Drasek, children's librarian at the Bank Street
College of Education;
book blogger Nicole Bonia of Linus's Blanket; and Stracher.