Thanks to everyone who entered the contest, and double thanks to people who gave me the names of new books featuring Heroines of Color. I was not yet aware of. I\’m now on a crusade to find them and read. I was specially pleased to find out about TU Publishing, an imprint of Lee and […]
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Today I visited two classes in a local middle school, where the 7/8th grade humanities teacher and I are working to enhance the summer reading program for the kids entering 8th grade next year. The program is simple–the teacher forms the conduit over the summer. She gets the books first, looks them over, and decides which
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One of the things I\’m most proud of with my YA novel PULL is the way it brings different generations together. At a recent meeting with a Mt. Prospect United Methodist Mens\’ Club, one of the listeners bought a copy and had me autograph it to give to his grandson for his eighteenth birthday. A week later
The Atlantic Wire has a series they call YA for Grownups. In April, 2012 they published an article called The Greatest Girl Characters of Young Adult Literature. Never mind that this is one person\’s opinion. Never mind that many of the heroines in the list were actually from children\’s or middle grade fiction. Never mind
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