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My name is memory
Sharing multiple lifetimes with the reincarnations of Sophia, Daniel, a soul with a rare ability to remember his past lives, arrives in the present frustrated that their time together has always been cut short and hopeful that Sophia's burgeoning memories can help them overcome past-life challenges.
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Interview with Ann Brashares
Blasingame interviews Ann Brashares by e-mail about The Second Summer of the Sisterhood. Brashares is hoping to eventually write a story that will be embraced by the boys.
Journal Article
REVIEW --- Word Craft: Ann Brashares, Novelist: Creating a New 'Pants' -- And a New Baby
To my baby I gave most of the real estate in my abdomen, much of what I ate, air from every breath and, along with my other children, the custody of my happiness for the rest of my life. Eventually the characters emerged from my head like four Athenas and the baby from my body in the traditional way, the egress in all cases laborious and thrilling.
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Under the Covers
THERE is a new novel for teenagers called \"Rainbow Party,\" and it has been causing a stir. A rainbow party is apparently a gathering at...
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Under the Covers
''Rainbow Party'' is not contraband in any obvious way. It's published by a children's division and sold in bookstores' young adult sections, which are usually in or adjacent to their children's sections. By its look, title and placement in the bookstore you would have no idea what you were getting. And you should at least know. This seemed at first like a good idea, but the more I thought about it, the more tangled it became. For example, with books it's tricky to separate the content from the quality. Can any ratings system express the subtle things that make a book valuable or potentially harmful? It's not so much the difference between M for ''mature'' and E as in ''O.K. for everybody.'' The more salient distinction is between R for ''rewarding'' and G for ''gratuitous.'' EE for ''edgy and enlightening.'' SS for ''sensational and stupid.'' It is easy to get carried away. What about scary books? S for ''scared the pants off me and my kid.'' BD for ''gave him bad dreams for a year.'' And sad ones? BH for ''breaks your heart.'' AD for ''at least one animal dies.'' One likes to be warned. THIS, at last, points to a deeper problem and seeks a more radical solution. Young adult books are developed by children's book departments, offered in children's catalogs, bought by children's buyers, sold in the children's area and tallied on children's best-seller lists. It's a strange custom when you think about it. (Imagine, for a moment, that music for teenagers were released by children's divisions -- the same producers, marketers and publicists who brought out ''Baby Beluga'' and ''Rubber Duckie'' also brought out ''Pimpin' All Over the World.'' It's a ludicrous concept, and not only because the teenage music industry virtually is the music industry.)
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Worth the risk
Get a sneak peek of the long-awaited new novel, The Here and Now, from best-selling author ANN BRASHARES (you know her from The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series). Ethan is lying a foot or so away from me on the bed, looking through near-future newspapers. Because Ethan's computer is logged on to his Facebook page, I notice the hundreds of friends he has. Reprinted with permission from Random House Children's Books, a division of Random House, LLC.
Magazine Article
Creating a New 'Pants' --And a New Baby
WHEN I WROTE my first book, \"The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants,\" I was pregnant with my third child. I remember wanting to include my unborn baby in the book's acknowledgments, because she had been such excellent company throughout the writing process. So I acknowledged...
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