I was impacted by each of these books because they all revealed something to me about myself and helped me to know and understand myself in hindsight and in real time. They all star girls and women who are aware of how perpetually out of place in the world they are and accept it. They are socially awkward, chronically misunderstood and completely at home with/inside themselves.

SPOILERS. Baby, the way I swooned? I was twelve in that movie theater just blushing.

In which I discuss Mara Brock Akil being so inspired by Judy Blume’s novel that she bought the rights and curiously used pretty close to zero protected materials, from Judy Blume’s novel, in the reimagining. It takes a visionary.

Hi! I write books about bookish teens being bookish and the books they get bookish with. Classic novels anchored my teenage life, so they also anchor the books I write for teenagers. They’re not tossed in for vibes or as props. I’ve touched on this in interviews and I’m almost positive some of this is explored in the lesson plans on the free downloads section of this website. Here are the 5 books featured in Finding Jupiter…