I bookmark news stories I find interesting in a “book ideas” folder, and go back to that when I’m brainstorming. I also wrote opinion columns for 14 years, and am still a politics and news junkie. I also write humorous middle grade, because I’m a reasonably funny person in real life, and my YA body of work didn’t reflect that. My primary genre is contemporary realistic fiction for young adults – my Scholastic editor, Jody Corbett, calls me “The Dick Wolf of YA.” I’m particularly fascinated by the intersection of young people and technology – my last four YA novels have explored different aspects of how growing up in a technology driven world affects what is already a very tumultuous time, emotionally, physically, and hormonally.
why you write in this genre, how you discovered it, what you love most about it…) Her novel Backlash won the Iowa Teen Book Award. Sarah also teaches at the Yale Writers’ Workshop.
Her first novel, Confessions of a Closet Catholic, won the 2006 Sydney Taylor Book Award for Older Readers. She also wrote political opinion for fourteen years,with Hearst Newspapers and. WCSU Mentor Sarah Darer Littman is an award-winning author of over 16 books for young people, including Fairest of Them All and Anything But Okay. pages cm Summary: When Christian, a boy she knows only through Facebook, posts a lot of nasty comments on her page, fifteen-year-old Lara tries to kill herself - but that is only the b eginning of the backlash for her sister, Sydney her former friend Bree and her classmates. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Littman, Sarah, author. For information regarding permis- sion, write to Scholastic Inc., Attention: Permissions Department, 5 57 Broadway, New Y ork, NY 10 012. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without written permission of the publisher. , and associated logos are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Scholastic Inc.
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