People in the know say The Giver was the first young adult dystopian novel.

But there's a whole world waiting, still, and there are good things in it.

People do things that turn out badly, often for the most benevolent of reasons.

There will always be a place for bunnies to talk in rhyme, but that's not what I do.

I was a sidelines child: never class president, never team captain, never the one with the most valentines in my box.

When I create characters, I create a world to inhabit and they begin to feel very real for me. I don't belong in a psych ward, I don't think, but they become very real, like my own family, and then I have to say goodbye, close the door, and work on other things.

So actually, there could be parents-of-the-parents-of-the-parents-of-the parents?