She wondered if all the firsts in her life would go by so quickly, and be forgotten just as quickly.

She wondered if all the firsts in her life would go by so quickly, and be forgotten just as quickly.

I thought ["Summer Sisters" ] would be a children's book - two girls who summer together from very different backgrounds. And then when it just kept going and going and going. They kept getting older.

Another thing all writers have in common is we're all observers. We pay attention to detail.

If all you leave in the library is books that you think speak to everyone, what are you going to have? You'd have nothing.

You think everything can be magically cured with vitamins?” “Everything but us.

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