The key to writing successful YA is to keep the adults out of the story as much as possible.

The key to writing successful YA is to keep the adults out of the story as much as possible.

I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children.

I don't ever go on the Internet. I don't even know how it works.

Problem solving, and I don't mean algebra, seems to be my life's work. Maybe it's everyone's life's work.

In my grammar school years back in the 1920s I used my ten-cents-a-week allowance for Saturday matinees of Douglas Fairbanks movies. All that swashbuckling and leaping about in the midst of the sails of ships!

If you don't see the book you want on the shelves, write it.