Online Author Talk: My Bicentennial Summer: A True-Life Adventure Across America with G. Neri

Celebrated author G. Neri invites readers for a journey through the U.S. in his funny and heartfelt book, My Bicentennial Summer. The year is 1976, and America is throwing its biggest birthday party ever—its bicentennial. What better way to celebrate than with an eight-thousand-mile road trip? Young Greg is entranced by the variety of accents, strange foods, natural wonders, and historical attractions, from the Grand Canyon to the Statue of Liberty. And he glimpses the darker side of traveling as a family of color, pondering whether “We the People” includes people like him.