If you cannot find yourself on the page very early in life, you will go looking for yourself in all the wrong places.

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

Only the nonreader fears books.

I read because one of these days I'm going to get out of this town, and I'm going to go everywhere and meet everybody, and I want to be ready

Fame is a funny thing, like a secret, both are hard to keep.

But put two librarians' heads together, and mountains move.

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