
Prasad also penned Breathe the Sky: A Novel Inspired by the Life of Amelia Earhart. School Library Journal says, “Prasad’s debut is a compelling modern-day adventure,” while Booklist hails it “a compulsive read.” Damselfly is currently implemented in middle school and high school curricula across the country as a modern “parallel read” with Lord of the Flies.



Her newest young adult novel, Mercury Boys, has drawn comparisons to Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs and The Fever by Megan Abbott.Ĭhandra Prasad’s first young adult novel, Damselfly, was published by Scholastic in 2018.
