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Five Questions for Lizzie Skurnick

Five Questions for Lizzie Skurnick
...to the social novels of the 1970s and 1980s.’ The list gained a passel of built-in followers with the release of Sydney Taylor’s All-of-a-Kind-Family series, beloved by little Jewish girls...
    What’s Up? with Andrea Pinkney PICTURE THE DREAM

    What’s Up? with Andrea Pinkney PICTURE THE DREAM

    ...for children and young adults, including picture books, novels, works of historical fiction and nonfiction and Coretta Scott King Award winner who writes about African-American culture. In addition to her...

    Periods in YA

    In which I discuss menstruation, especially in YA books and how YA books would be so much better if Bella and Katniss had periods throughout the novels....

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    Past Tense v. Present Tense

    Past Tense v. Present Tense
    Most novels feature the viewpoint character telling the story using the past tense. Yet more and more, readers are embracing present tense fiction. Novel writers need to understand tenses and...