young adult fiction | young adult fiction
May.23.2013
What books enchanted you as a child? Have you ever wanted to live inside a fairy tale? Would you be a Prince or Princess or a villain? Would you like to be a writer or an author. In today’s Express Yourself!™ our hosts, Youngjoo Ahn and Katelyn Darrow interview two award winning...
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Mar.01.2013
Sixteen-year-old Sandy has a secret. A terrible secret. Who will listen? Who will believe? Who will help?
In Maybe I Will, author Laurie Gray's second novel, she draws on her experience as a deputy prosecuting attorney dealing with crimes against children to portray the realities of...
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Oct.31.2012
In Four Secrets, award-winning author Margaret Willey’s latest young adult novel, Katie, Nate, and Renata, middle-school outsiders, are in juvenile detention. Their crime? Kidnapping Chase, the school bully who seems to know everyone’s secrets and delights in tormenting tiny,...
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Oct.24.2012
When Beverly was a child she hated to read. Even though her eighth-grade teacher sent her poem “Stars” to a high school anthology and it was published in Young America Sings she hated to write. In spite of her rocky relationship with books, she managed to graduate from high...
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Aug.20.2012
Dominick Domingo is a veteran Animation Artist (Lion King, Pocahontas, Hunchback, Tarzan, Fantasia) who’s illustrated YA books for Penguin, Random House, Lowell House, Disney Publishing, Hyperion Books, and Harcourt. Developing original screenplays as a filmmaker led to a growing writing resume....
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Aug.02.2012
Back in June, I had the honor of being nominated for the Northern California Book Award with Amy Reed and Daniel Handler. I was a bit star struck by this honor and nothing short of astonished to be named the winner. But, cliche as it is, there really isn't a "winner" when it comes to...
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May.26.2012
Kimberly Dana’s latest book will bring hours of reading pleasure to teen girls, especially those with a particular interest in cheerleading.
Years ago, a murder was committed in a cheerleading camp: a beautiful teenager with beautiful red flowing hair was drowned in the lake. Rumors say the killer...
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Mar.06.2012
On February 28th, 2012, an excerpt from "Jet Black and the Ninja Wind," the YA novel-in-progress by Leza Lowitz and Shogo Oketani about a kick-ass female ninja who fights to save her ancestral home in Tohoku and its indigenous tribal treasure, was published in the anthology...
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Jan.31.2012
My first interview (and don't miss the giveaway at the very end!) in this series is Holly Schindler, Young Adult author (author of Young Adult novels, that is--Holly herself is grown) of A BLUE SO DARK and PLAYING HURT. It's been wonderful to watch her career blossom. Which I have. From a...
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Sep.29.2011
A play version of Pat's and my novel Juggler in the Wind is featured in the current issue of READ Magazine. It feels great to be in the same issue with Rod Serling and Ray Bradbury. I can't thank editor Debbie Dolan Nevins enough. The amazing illustrations are by David Ho. READ is an excellent...
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