[A young adult novel] ends not with happily ever after, but at a new beginning, with the sense of a lot of life yet to be lived.

With the poetry of plain speaking, Shannon Hitchcock recreates the daily drama of a vanished world.

If you're going to read minds, start with a simple one.

Only the nonreader fears books.

I'm so far gone that I'm telling the truth. It sounds like a foreign language.

Martin Wilson's What They Always Tell Us hears the voices of the young as they struggle toward adulthood.

The only way you can write is by the light of the bridges burning behind you.