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Author Feature: Laura Langston
#TuesdayTalk with Laura Langston. Her new novel, Stepping Out, is on shelves now! Tell us about your book. Fifteen-year-old Paige Larsson loves to laugh. She likes it even more when others laugh with her. As a YouTube comedy vlogger, laughter is Paige’s currency in life. It eases the pain of …
Author Feature: Darren Groth
#TuesdayTalk with Darren Groth. Darren Groth’s YA novel, Are You Seeing Me? launches this month. Darren, what inspired you to write Perry and Justine’s story? Anyone who’s spent any time with me knows I am Dad to a set of twins: one girl, one boy. My daughter is ‘neurotypical’, which …
Fiction and Neuroscience – Guest post by author Trina St. Jean
“I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix.” Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes in The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone, 1921) Everywhere you turn these days, fictional characters in both adult and young adult novels are dealing with brain trouble. Maybe they’ve had their brains altered …
Author Feature: Alison Hughes
#TuesdayTalk with Alison Hughes. Alison’s new middle reader, Lost in the Backyard, launches this April. Alison, what do you look for in a good book? I love a good mystery, but I have to say that it’s wonderful, realistic characters that float my boat. When did you first know you …
Orca on the road!
Orca has just recently returned from two great conferences, the ALA midwinter conference in Philadelphia, PA and the OLA Super Conference in Toronto, Ontario. There was lots of excitement about our hi/lo series for struggling readers–Orca Soundings, Orca Currents, Orca Sports and Rapid Reads–but there was also a general enthusiasm …