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.

The best books come from someplace deep inside.... Become emotionally involved. If you don't care about your characters, your readers won't either.

My husband says I have too much imagination, but I don't think a writer can have too much imagination!

I'm really quite bad at coming up with plot ideas. I like to create characters and just see what will happen to them when I let them loose!

Censors never go after books unless kids already like them. I don’t even think they know to go after books until they know that children are interested in reading this book, therefore there must be something in it that’s wrong.

When I started to write, it was the '70s, and throughout that decade, we didn't have any problems with book challenges or censorship.

I think people who write for kids, we have that ability to go back into our own lives.