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I hope young readers see that friendship is so powerful and important, even when it’s messy and imperfect.
Every writer gets the same question. Whether they write for adults or kids. Whether they are at a school or a cocktail party. “Where did you get the idea for the book?”
I never thought of myself as a particularly religious teen. My family was Catholic because we’d always been Catholic. We ate fish on Fridays during Lent but didn’t say grace before meals. I went to Catholic elementary school, because my parents felt it was a good religious foundation and the school was strong academically, but […]
In writing Alterations, I wanted to show that a major part of growing up is shifting (or altering) your perspective to realize all the factors that are working together to make your life possible, all the stories of struggle hidden behind every success.
Sometimes the heaviness of the world gets too big to hold.
If you’re looking for an action adventure to grab the interest of your middle grade readers, the City Spies series by James Ponti is an excellent choice.
Distilled down to their most essential, these books were the perfect package: engaging stories that held my attention and beautiful language that took my breath away.
I’d start off with an intro paragraph here, but you’d probably just skip it. Let me just say that these rules only apply to me.
Some books start with a character, some with an image, some with a memory. Light and Air began with a place: the ruins of a real life tuberculosis sanatorium.
Let’s let strong Filipino girls be. Let’s let every strong kid be. Every child has a story to tell, and they all deserve to see themselves in the books they read, just like you and me.
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