"Recommended Teen Read"
- USA Today
"Carol Award" for young adult fiction
- American Christian Fiction Writers
On Twitter, @LAcrush wrote: “Somewhere, Robert Sean Leonard, Josh Charles and Ethan Hawke, step up on a table.” I am 37 years-old, and Robin Williams has made me laugh every year I’ve been alive. Through humor, he taught me lots of things. In fact, I […]
This week, celeb YA authors Jill Williamson and Stephanie Morrill invited me to share my best advice for aspiring young writers on their blog called Go Teen Writers. Their blog is packed full of great insights for young writers and a regular must-read for high school and college students considering a writing career. I didn’t have to think […]
As I write, dozens of stranded short-finned pilot whales are circling anxiously in the shallows of Florida’s coastline, just off the Everglades. More than ten of the original 50 have died so far. Those of us who watch the news reports share a worried fellowship with scientists who say they have no explanation for such […]
Reposted from the YALSA Blog (posted October 28, 2013) The best story I ever read about a girl who was bullied is Cinderella. October is National Bullying Prevention Month, which means a lot of really cool people will tell their stories of how they suffered and overcame. I love the new voices that lend themselves […]
(From the Blink YA Books blog of Zondervan / HarperCollins) If you’re a young adult looking to size up the state of your peers these days, never fear. It will never be measured by the depths pop culture sinks to grab your attention. Those cringe-awful moments are merely the setting of a flood line—reflections of […]
The first time I fell in love with the written story was when I was about nine years-old, and my mother read an Emily Dickinson poem to me from a leather-bound . . .
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