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At nearly every school visit some kid will ask me, “How long does it take to write a book?”To really talk about how long it takes to write a book, one must decide what “writing” is, and when the process begins.
As I started writing Dad’s Girlfriend and Other Anxieties, it was clear 12-year-old Ava was an only child. Although Ava’s situation is somewhat unusual—her mom died shortly after giving birth—Ava isn’t alone in her “onliness.”
In my years of research, I’ve discovered not only factual events and persons who literally changed the course of society as we know it today, but also something far greater and more personal to my well-being: a connection to a world I never felt a part of.
Stories, perhaps, are what truly distinguish humans from every other creature on our planet. Stories, sometimes, are what save us.
I realized that I shouldn’t shrug off my work, because it’s about a pandemic. Maybe instead, what I did was write a book that acknowledged the pandemic. My hope is that I Miss You, I Hate This helps young people process all the loss they’ve endured the last few years.
Stories are a vital tool in showing there is nothing to fear, that there is another side to the narrative we might have been told. It is only through such stories that we can learn about—and from—different lives and cultures, and hopefully bring people together.
Today I’m sharing with you forthcoming titles from Peachtree and Peachtree Teen.
Teen librarian Cindy Shutts walks us through making DIY floral crowns
After her death, Mary’s friend Dr. Bertha Van Hoosen said, “Dr. Mary’s life should stand out to remind us that when people do not think as we do, do not dress as we do, and do not live as we do, that they are more than likely to be half a century ahead of their time, and that we should have for them not ridicule but reverence.”
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