Linda Oatman High has written more than twenty books for young readers, and here is her latest. Don’t you just…
Stealing Mt. Rushmore comes out this coming Tuesday, August 18, and I’m pleased as punch to feature an interview with…
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…
Look what’s out in paperback tomorrow (June 4)! The Mortification of Fovea Munson by Mary Winn Heider. It’s LOL funny—the…
Writing is a solitary activity, but we don’t have to do it alone… Won’t you sign up with me?
Is passion just an obsession with something you can’t seem to get better at, or is it the very thing…
“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.”
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…
This month I read a YA novel that defies literary convention. It’s a mystery, but not a mystery. There’s a…