About this Event
Join us to celebrate this captivating adventure, perfect for fans of When You Reach Me and Only Murders in the Building, written by local author Sarvenaz Tash and set on our very own Ocean Parkway.
Sarvenaz will be joined by author and educator Corey Ann Haydu for a reading, conversation, reception, and book signing.
Preorder your copy today and receive a set of stickers, a bookmark, and an EXCLUSIVE enamel pin of iconic Coney Island fortune-telling machine, Grandmother’s Predictions. Only available to those who preorder (while supplies last)!
About the book
An 11-year-old podcaster-turned-sleuth teams up with the new kid in the building to find their missing neighbor!
Eleven-year-old Roya is the superintendent’s kid in her regal Brooklyn apartment building, so she knows pretty much everything there is to know about its residents. An aspiring reporter, she even hosts a secret podcast about the lives of the building’s tenants. It’s a good distraction from the problems in her own life.
But when Katya Petrov, one of her favorite tenants, goes missing, Roya discovers an eerie connection to Grandmother’s Predictions, an antique fortune-telling machine at Coney Island. “Grandmother” has been linked to multiple disappearances in the Petrov family over the last century. Now, with the help of a new friend who’s just moved in, it’s up to Roya to make her own headlines as she searches for Katya and attempts to break the Petrov curse once and for all.
Advance praise for The Queen of Ocean Parkway
“A charming, warm-hearted tale that reads like a classic. This book is for the kids who curl up in corners of the library, reading for hours at a time and daydreaming of mystery and adventure." —Claire Legrand, NYT bestselling author of Some Kind of Happiness
“Engaging [and] a delight to read...An intrepid mystery with unexpected sci-fi elements, this story packs an emotional punch." —School Library Journal
“Dusted with speculative elements, this cozy and surprising mystery by Tash features appealing and perceptively drawn characters coping with genuinely wrought emotions in a vivid setting." —Publishers Weekly
“A clever feat of physics and fun. Sarvenaz Tash is an expert at writing bold concepts with masterful nuance and tenderness. I love this mystery!” —Lauren Magaziner, author of the Case Closed series
“An amazing adventure...the resolution is entirely original, and the characters are distinct individuals whose worries, quirks, and foibles will engage readers’ sympathies." —Kirkus Reviews
About the author
Sarvenaz Tash is the author of eight novels (and counting) for kids, young adults, and adults including The Geek's Guide to Unrequited Love (an Amazon Best Book of the Year, YALSA Top Ten Quick Pick for Reluctant YA Readers), A Whole Song and Dance, and The Queen of Ocean Parkway. She was born in Tehran, Iran and grew up on Long Island, NY. She received her BFA in Film and Television from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, which means she got to spend most of college running around and making movies (it was a lot of fun). She has dabbled in all sorts of writing including screenwriting, copywriting, and professional tweeting for the likes of Bravo and MTV. Sarvenaz currently lives in Brooklyn with her family.
About Corey Ann Haydu
Author and educator Corey Ann Haydu has been publishing critically acclaimed books in the young adult and children’s space since 2013. Since 2019, she has been on faculty at Vermont College of Fine Arts in their Writing for Children and Young Adults MFA program.
Corey grew up outside Boston, Massachusetts, and has been living in New York City since 2001, when she came to the city to earn her BFA in Theatre from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Following a few years of acting and cocktail waitressing (and nannying, real estate agent-ing, pilates instructing and telemarketing), Corey earned her MFA in Writing for Children from The New School.
Corey’s books have been Edgar Award nominees, Amazon Books of the Month, RISE Honorees, Junior Library Guild Selections, Kirkus, PW, and SLJ Best Books of the Year, BCCB Blue Ribbon Honorees, and more. She currently lives in Brooklyn with her family.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Lofty Pigeon Books, Church Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, USA, United States
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