Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.

Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.

My father was a writer; I've known a lot of children of writers - daughters and sons of writers, and it can be a hard way to grow up.

Pubescent girls, it seems, are manifestly more likely to exhibit extreme and bizarre psychological symptoms than are teenage boys.

Divorce in a young-adult novel means what being orphaned meant in a fairy tale: vulnerability, danger, unwanted independence.

Girls are really looking to places that have limits and boundaries: where adults are the adults and there are rules, and where they feel safe.

My mother was very involved with Cesar Chavez's work on behalf of the migrant farm workers in California.