Awards and Recognition for Behind the Eyes

Behind the Eyes received the Americas Award for Commended Titles. The Americas Award is given to works that engagingly and authentically portray Latinos in the United States. Behind the Eyes was also selected for inclusion in The New York Public Library’s Books for the Teen Age 2007.

New Novel, The Summer of Jasmine

Francisco Stork's third novel, The Summer of Jasmine, will be published in March 2009, by Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic Inc. The Summer of Jasmine (the title may change) is about Maarcelo, a seventeen-year-old whom society has labeled as having a “developmental disorder” because of his pervasive interest in God and all things religious and because he does not relate to others as expected. When Marcelo is asked to spend a summer working in the mailroom of his father’s law firm, Marcelo encounters suffering, evil, and the joy and mystery of love.