Linda Castellitto
Content by Linda Castellitto
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<b>A family's life changed in an instant</b>Like her 2005 debut novel, The Center of Everything, Laura Moriarty's <b>The Rest of Her Life</b> is set in a small Kansas town,
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It's the summer of 1895, and 16-year-old Gemma Doyle is bored and impatient. Tired of her life in Bombay, India, she's indignant that her mother continually rebuffs her requests to move to London.
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A reluctant convert to the young adult genre, John Son resisted writing Finding My Hat, his debut novel, for almost 18 months.
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If Seth Godin has anything to say about it, we're going to toss aside the "born leader" concept once and for all and embrace the notion that leadership is the product of a conscious d
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that, if we pay attention, animals have much to teach us. In Lisa J.
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Former teacher Richard Peck educates and entertains with ÔRiver'When I was about 12, Richard Peck scared the daylights out of me.
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Laurie Halse Anderson sometimes thinks her career as a children's author is too good to be true.
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Jacqueline Kelly has had a mole, a badger, a rat and a toad in her head for 50 years. But not to worry—it wasn’t due to anything frightening or medically improbable. Rather, the four are the charming protagonists of The Wind in the Willows, one of Kelly’s lifelong favorite books.
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Motivated by a desire to interest his son, Jack, in reading, super-successful author James Patterson took his first step into young adult fiction in 2005 with the Maximum Ride series, which—l
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Love, Ghosts, and Facial Hair by popular Australian poet Steven Herrick will strike a chord with older readers.
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Providing a wonderful warm-up for National Poetry Month, two new young adult novels, both written in free verse, are sure to please readers of all ages.
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Tim Tharp didn’t start out writing novels for teens.
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