“5 Professors Who Write Fascinating Books,” on wiki.ezvid.com
WE ARE ALL WE HAVE
- “Finish Your 2022 Reading With A Great YA Book,” Kirkus Reviews
- “From Pakistan & Mexico to the Outer Cape,” Providence Independent
- Q&A with Deborah Kalb
- “A triumphant tale about finding home,” Kirkus Reviews, Starred
- “Budhos weaves a rich tapestry of words,” Booklist, Starred
- “… compelling and vivid, filled with drama, family secrets and romance,” Book Page
THE LONG RIDE
- “Readers will find a powerful window into the past and, unfortunately, a way-too-accurate mirror of the present.” Kirkus Reviews, Starred
- “… compassionate and thoughtful,” Publisher’s Weekly
- Q&A with Deborah Kalb
EYES OF THE WORLD
- “Eyes of the World is an education, but it’s also a love story … and a moral imperative: Don’t look away from injustice,” Tablet Magazine
- “Captivating, powerful, and thought-provoking,” Kirkus Reviews, Starred
- “Passionate, sprawling, multilayered,” The Horn Book, Starred
- “Exposes art and humanity in history,” Booklist, Starred“
- These photographs remind us of what was so crucial and important about that moment in history,” TIME
- “How America’s Checkered Past Is Being Turned into Compelling Children’s Books,” Electric Literature
- “The Siege of Madrid Through Photographs,” History News Network
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WATCHED
“… an exquisite job capturing how surveillance shapes the tenor and texture of life in NYC’s Muslim communities,” LitHub- “An Immigrant Teen Gets Swept into NYPD Surveillance,” NBC.com
- “The Most Powerful Tools We Have: An Interview with Marina Budhos on Empathy, Writing and Her New Novel Watched,” Brooklyn Magazine
- “Budhos perfectly captures the gritty details of daily life in a Queens neighborhood …,” School Library Journal, Starred
- “A stirring novel about coming of age amid intensive surveillance and racial profiling,” Publisher’s Weekly
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TELL US WE’RE HOME
- “Upstairs, Downstairs, Jersey-style,” The New York Times
- “YA or STFU: Best Teen Books for 2010,” Kirkus Reviews
- “Marina Budhos: An (Only Teensy Bit Snarky) Author Interview,” Stories are Good Medicine
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SUGAR CHANGED THE WORLD
- “What Should Children Read?”, The New York Times
- “Best Books 2010,” SLJ
- “20 Outstanding Nonfiction Books: Core Essentials,” SLJ
- “Review,” Washington Post
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ASK ME NO QUESTIONS
- “12 YA Books That Will Make You See the World Differently,” Bustle.com
- “Undocumented and Invisible,” India Currents
- “Ask Me No Questions: Tell Me No Stereotypes,” Muslim Media Watch
- “Budhos Speaks Up For Muslim Immigrants in a Post 9/11 World,” DNA World
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THE PROFESSOR OF LIGHT
- “Many dualities are depicted in this taut psychological drama,” Publisher’s Weekly, Starred Review
- “Lots of novels are several things at once, but few authors pull it off as successfully as Budhos does,” The Austin Chronicle
- “Caught Between Worlds, Shadow and Light,” Newsday
- “Child of Many Cultures,” India Today
- “In the Arms of an Obsession,” The Telegraph
- “In Search of Her Roots,” Rediff.com
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HOUSE OF WAITING
- “Love After Love,” Talented Reader: A Literary Journal
- “Continental Divide,” Pages
- “Marina Budhos Goes Home Again: Gravity, Family & Country,” The Austin Chronicle