Category Archives: kidlit

Harriet the Spy

Posted on March 2, 2014 by madelynruth@yahoo.com

Last summer, I did a talk for a Library of Congress contest called A Book that Shaped Me. If I had entered the contest myself, my essay would have been about Harriet the Spy. Because I’m pretty sure that my … Continue reading →

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Teen ’14

Posted on February 4, 2014 by madelynruth@yahoo.com

Last October, I went to the library and made a bunch of new friends. I could wax poetic and talk about books, and how books become your friends, and how they’re always waiting for you at the library, but this … Continue reading →

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Genre Jumper: Deborah Heiligman

Posted on January 23, 2014 by madelynruth@yahoo.com

Though she’s been writing for a long time, the first book I read of Deborah Heiligman’s was Intentions, which won the Sydney Taylor Book Award for Teen Readers last year. If you’ve read it, you know how different it is … Continue reading →

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Cover up!

Posted on January 17, 2014 by madelynruth@yahoo.com

No, not a coverup. I mean the cover is UP. Almost… This week — tomorrow, in fact — we’re unveiling the cover of Dream Boy, a YA novel co-authored by me and my friend Mary Crockett. We are both super … Continue reading →

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Genre Jumper: Sarah Sullivan

Posted on December 9, 2013 by madelynruth@yahoo.com

I started jumping from picture books to other kid-lit genres due to curiosity, an itchy typing finger, and knowing that what I needed to say would sometimes take more than 500 words. It was not what I’d call a stroke … Continue reading →

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