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You've all left me breathless with your enthusiasm for this contest! YA fans are the BEST. And you left fabulous answers, too! ...

I fell during my run today. One stride I was rushing forward, chattering to St. Matt about an amazing book I'd read yesterday and admiri...

I always mean to update my Goodreads list, but I never do. I also have every intention of keeping a book journal or rating the books I rea...

I wanted to be a vet for a whole week when I was little. This career path followed right after my I’m-going-to-be-an-astronaut phase, which ...

When I pictured the Distraction Fairy – which I frequently do while being distracted – I always pictured a her. And she had a pointy chin an...

I’m strict about few teacher-ly things. One of these is an orderly line in the hallways. In fact, I’m very particular about my lines – they’...

Today I'm off to Books of Wonder in NYC to see an amazing *dazzle* of YA authors . (A dazzle is really a group of zebras, but I've a...

It wasn’t a lack of interest that was keeping me from Dust of 100 Dogs , but rather a lack of backbone. I didn’t grow one over the weekend, ...

I have real avoidance issues with A.S. King’s Dust of 100 Dogs. I kept hearing the best things about the book, the buzz on the Internet is ...

Sometimes while I’m reading I like to imagine what St. Matt would say if I made him read/ listen to the audiobook. Usually I do this when I...

Dun, dun, dun... here they are. How'd you do? 1. D.: Aislinn (Wicked Lovely) 2. K : Anidora-Kilandra (Goose Girl) 3. B : Cabel (Wake ...

YA and middle-grade authors must have a penchant for unusual names, which is a good thing because I tend to forget character names unless th...

I get very attached to the names of characters I love. When I was seven, I wanted to name my future children Fern and Wilbur. Thankfully I’v...

And survival skills too. It was math class and my students were diligently working their way through some operations with positive and negat...

"July? Seriously?" he asked me. "Yes, bud, July," I answered. "Are you sure?" Because he’s an all-knowing sixt...

It’s Monday morning and I’m grinning and bouncing in the hallways waiting for my students to arrive. This is not my typical Monday-morning a...