Steve Watkins’s novel SINK OR SWIM takes readers to North Carolina’s Ocracoke Island one summer during World War II.
This month I visited Alaska’s Denali National Park—not in person, but in prose—when I read Hannah Moderow‘s debut novel Lily’s…
I’m a girl who struggles to write girl characters, so what’s the deal, huh? I’ve asked this question for a…
What a wonderful new book for middle grade readers! Leah Henderson’s debut novel One Shadow on the Wall took me…
I don’t remember exactly when I met Erin Teagan, but I know it was through SCBWI‘s Mid-Atlantic chapter—either the annual fall…
One day when I was about eight years old and a friend’s mom was driving the carpool, she drove off…
Last week, Kimberly Brubaker Bradley won the Newbery Honor Award for her middle grade novel, The War that Saved my Life, and just this…
What a joy to feature Wendy Wan-Long Shang on my blog today! Wendy is the author of the award-winning novel…
Listen to these lines from the first page of Caminar, Skila Brown’s debut novel in verse: Our village sat in…
Last week I popped Katherine Applegate‘s middle-grade novel in verse, Home of the Brave, into my car’s CD player, and…