If you're a writer, you just keep following the path - keep going deeper and deeper into the things that interest you.

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

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

I miss my mother very much, and I feel closest to her when I have dinner in the oven and the children are nearby playing and I'm reading a book or doing some little project.

Every great culture has cared a lot, one way or another, about the fate of its girls.

If you're a writer, you just keep following the path - keep going deeper and deeper into the things that interest you.

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