Ideas come from everywhere - they come from what you see and hear and imagine.

I always have trouble with titles for my books. I usually have no title until the editor has to present the book and calls me frantically, 'Judy, we need a title.

Suppose there aren't any more A + days once you get to be twelve? Wouldn't that be something! To spend the rest of your life looking for an A + day and not finding it.

I love you, Michael Wagner.” “Forever?” he asked. “Forever,” I said.

I try to create new characters in each book I write. That's what makes writing fun and interesting for me.

Librarians save lives by handing the right book at the right time to a kid in need.

Fear is often disguised as moral outrage.