About Rajani LaRocca
Rajani LaRocca was a primary care physician, author and physician.
Rajani LaRocca is an Indian-American author of children's literature and a primary-care physician. She writes middle grade fiction relating to Indian-American identity and medicine. She won a 2022 Newbery Honor for her novel Red, White and Whole.
LaRocca enjoyed creative writing in high school and college but stopped when she began attending medical school. She began writing again in 2011. LaRocca is of Tamil descent. She was born in Bangalore
As of 2022, she lived in Concord, Massachusetts, with her family.
Four of LaRocca's books are Junior Library Guild selections: Much Ado about Baseball (2021), Red, White, and Whole (2021), Summer Is for Cousins (2023), and Sona and the Golden Beasts (2024).
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Picture books
Middle grade novels
Young adult novels
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