In Blue Skies eleven year-old Glory Bea believes her daddy will come home from the war. He has to. He…
I’m still choked up after reading Her Own Two Feet, just out from Scholastic’s FOCUS imprint, about a Rwandan girl…
Last month, our protagonist realized she “could believe in science without giving up on magic.” This month, we’re looking at…
Sarah R. Baughman talks about her writing process.
Look what’s out in paperback tomorrow (June 4)! The Mortification of Fovea Munson by Mary Winn Heider. It’s LOL funny—the…
After reading Adam P. Schmitt’s debut middle grade novel Speechless, I was… speechless. No, really. I was. Seriously. Toward the…
“The first part of a book for me is hearing the character’s voice in my head. I don’t even take out a pen until I hear it strongly and consistently.”
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…