[writing] Totally Changed My Life. It Gave Me My Life. Everything Opened Up.
I Thought ["summer Sisters" ] Would Be A Children's Book - Two Girls Who Summer Together From Very Different Backgrounds. And Then When It Just Kept Going And Going And Going. They Kept Getting Older.
Kids Should Read Whatever They Want To Read. So I'm Hoping That Just Like 15-year-olds Read "summer Sisters," I'm Hoping That They'll Read This.
When I Was Twelve. And I Was Going Through My Parents' Bookshelves, I Found The Most Wonderful Books And Plenty Of. Within Those Wonderful Books That Were Real Turn-on's. At 12 Or 13, Books Were Such Turn-ons.
I Was Shy, But I Stood Up In Front Of The Class And I Gave My Report.i Was Reporting On Books That I Didn't Want To Read. I Was Inventing Books That I Didn't Want To Read.
If All You Leave In The Library Is Books That You Think Speak To Everyone, What Are You Going To Have? You'd Have Nothing.
"margaret" Was Just My Truth. It Was What I Knew To Be True About Sixth Grade.
I Know Where "blubber" Came From. It Came From Stories That My Daughter Told Me When She Came Home From Fifth Grade. There Was A Kid In The Class Who Was Being Bullied. We Didn't Even Call It Bullying Then, That's What's So Weird. Victimization In The Classroom. The Word Bully Was So Out, Was So Not In Use For All Those Years And Now It's Back Big Time.
I Don't Really Know Exactly How It Happened But I Don't Like The Idea That I Would Ever Have Said I'm Going To Write About Racism Or Puberty Or Bullying.
