Oregon Book Awards finalist Jen Violi met with a 5th grade class at Ferguson Elementary School in Klamath Falls, as part of the Oregon Book Awards Author Tour. In this video, Jen answers a student’s question about how she came to write her book, Putting Makeup on Dead People.
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