So of course I’d heard of Octavian Nothing. But it was just one of those books (two volumes, actually, but really one book, in my mind) that I’d never gotten around to reading. But I’ve been catching up on John Green’s archives after going crazy for his Looking for Alaska, and I took what he [...]

We make assumptions about our writers sometimes, don’t we? We imagine what they look like, how old they are, and how much of a story they’ve taken from their own life experiences. When I was in graduate school in the summer of 1997, studying secondary English education, I was assigned a book called Make Lemonade [...]

Congratulations to Judy Blundell on winning the National Book Award in Young People’s Literature for WHAT I SAW AND HOW I LIED, which I loved and reviewed here.