“I think of myself as an enormously lucky person,” Kate DiCamillo says. “I get to tell stories for a living.”

The best-selling author, a two-time Newbery Medal winner with more than 30 million copies of her books in print worldwide, discusses her new juvenile novel Louisiana’s Way Home. Her first sequel, it revisits Louisiana Elefante, the orphaned friend of DiCamillo’s 2016 heroine, Raymie Nightingale. DiCamillo explains why “this is one of those characters who would not go away.”

For ages 10 and up.