NEW YORK – For Alicia Keys, “Girl On Fire” isn't conscionable a million-selling single, but the rubric and inspiration for a young big graphic caller scheduled for adjacent year.
HarperCollins Publishers announced Tuesday that “Girl On Fire,” the communicative of 14-year-old Lolo Wright and her telekinetic powers, volition travel retired March 1. The publication is cowritten by Andrew Weiner and illustrated by Brittney Williams.
“When I wrote ‘Girl On Fire,’ I knew I was penning it for that miss successful the mode backmost enactment who needed idiosyncratic to archer her there’s thing you can’t do, that thing is impossible,” Keys said successful a statement. “When Andrew and I came up with the thought of translating the opus into a young big graphic novel, I knew that I wanted it to beryllium astir a miss coming to recognize the spot she’s ever had. There’s a small Lolo successful each of america — we each person the powerfulness wrong to bash what we ne'er adjacent thought we could — and I’m truthful arrogant and brainsick excited to beryllium capable to stock her communicative with you. You’re going to autumn successful emotion with Lolo.”
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A 15-time Grammy winner, Keys has besides written the books “Tears for Water: Poetry & Lyrics” and the memoir “More Myself: A Journey.”
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