Author Feature: Monique Polak
Monique Polak, author of The Taste of Rain, discusses her inspiration and what she hopes readers take away from her book.
Category: Author Interviews
Author Feature: Lisa Bowes
Lisa Bowes, author of the Lucy Tries Sports series, answers questions about her newest book, Lucy Tries Basketball.
A Spooky Q&A with Jeff Szpirglas
Happy Halloween, Orca readers! To celebrate the scariest holiday of the year, we asked Jeff Szpirglas, the author of the spooky story collection Tales From Beyond the Brain, to tell us a bit about his experiences writing horror for young readers.
Robin Stevenson on the Fight for Abortion Rights
My Body My Choice: The Fight for Abortion Rights: Abortion is one of the most common of all medical procedures. But it is still stigmatized, and all too often people do not feel they can talk about their experiences. Making abortion illegal or hard to access doesn’t make it any …
Author Feature: Monique Polak
Our favorite pretend princess, Angelica, aka Jelly, is back! A case of mistaken identity, a wild imagination and a love of storytelling leads Jelly to tell her friend Joon and the new kid she’s just met, Leo, that she’s a part-time lion trainer at the local animal rescue center. Her …
Author Feature: Arthur Slade
Prince Conn will never be king. And that’s just fine with him. He’s ninth in line for the pirate throne and is quite happy to sail the skies in his airship with his crew of cheery misfits, plundering as they go. But one by one his siblings are being murdered, …