Kids should read whatever they want to read. So I'm hoping that just like 15-year-olds read "Summer Sisters," I'm hoping that they'll read this.

Suddenly question number four popped into my mind. Have you thought about how this relationship will end?

The truth will make you odd.

I don't believe in writer's block. There are good days when you're writing and less good days. I've learned that if it's not happening to walk away and return later. I doodle a lot and often get my best ideas with a pencil in my hand while I'm doodling. The problem is, sometimes I lose my doodles and that's bad!

Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.

It's not so much that I like him as a person God, but as a boy he's very handsome.

"Margaret" was just my truth. It was what I knew to be true about sixth grade.