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  • Happy Thanksgiving from me (and from the Mostly Good Girls)

    11.24.2014

    In celebration of Thanksgiving week, I’m posting here the complete Thanksgiving chapter from Mostly Good Girls. I hope your Thanksgiving celebrations are much more enjoyable than Violet’s are here. If… Read more

  • Remembering Zilpha Keatley Snyder

    10.09.2014

    When I was in middle school, I had a lot of trouble fitting in with my classmates. In hindsight I realize that many middle schoolers feel this way, but at… Read more

  • announcing the paperback edition of THIS SONG WILL SAVE YOUR LIFE

    09.08.2014

    Macmillan will be publishing the U.S. paperback edition of This Song Will Save Your Life on April 28, 2015, and this is what it’s going to look like! The paperback… Read more

  • I’m writing new books!

    04.18.2014

    I’m writing three new books, to be be precise. And as of today, I can tell you about them! The first is tentatively entitled Tonight the Streets Are Ours, and… Read more

  • the thing about my brain that makes book events challenging

    03.23.2014

    This week was the NYC Teen Author Festival, which is always a blast. It’s so much fun to get to see lots of my author and reader friends in one… Read more

  • March and April events in NYC

    03.10.2014

    I have a few events coming up in New York over the next few weeks, and you are all invited! Details: March 18, 6-8pm, Mulberry Street NYPL, 10 Jersey Street… Read more

  • Happy 50th birthday, Harriet the Spy!

    02.25.2014

    Today Louise Fitzhugh’s Harriet the Spy, one of my all-time favorite books, turned 50 years old. In celebration, I wrote an article about the book and its creator for Al… Read more

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I cannot even begin to express how false this claim is

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Since we're now in peak #girlscoutcookies season, I wanted to re-share this Facebook live that I did with the @girlscouts a couple years ago. May your Thin Mints fuel your energy for civic action! https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=10159958214920393

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8 Mar

I will walk two miles in the rain to a box office to avoid a $5 Ticketmaster fee, but I will also pay an unlimited amount of money for someone else to chop a butternut squash for me

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