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Exploring Feelings and Facing Challenges, a cover reveal, guest post, and excerpt by Jennifer Weiner
Author Jennifer Weiner talks about books as safe spaces to confront scary and challenging things. This post reveals the cover of her new book THE BIGFOOT QUEEN and shares an excerpt, too.
I wanted to write about kids like me, who know what it feels like to grow up in a place other people spend a week or two at for vacation in the summer; a place that, for them, for me, is home all year round.
This Saturday, April 29, is Twin Cities Teen Lit Con in Mendota Heights, MN at Two Rivers High School. Check out the amazing lineup for the day!
The idea of what is universal has been on my mind a lot. Too often universal means "You must get over here" rather than "We will meet you there."
It's difficult to explain the joy and privilege that accompanies being so unrevolutionary. The fact that kids today have so many books to choose about OCD is a miracle.
If you have inherited a story from your progenitors that you think might make a book, go for it. It’s worth a little detour through hell.
Thank goodness for there now being SO MANY wonderful books that address mental health issues. Here we meet Shannon, who has OCD, but---of course---she also has a lot of other things happening in her life.
The author shares how a school visit gave her a new character name and a new connection with one young reader.
A poem about the dreams and fantasies, the anticipation, the doubts and insecurities, the frustrations, and finally, the pride of seeing something that I wrote actually out there in the world for others to read.
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