Laughing Gas

I am dating myself when I say that I remember my mother dropping me off at grade school and then getting in line for rationed gas. The line stretched all the way back to the school, which was about seven or eight blocks from the station, and it wasn’t even open yet....

Teen Topic – Police in the schools

Sooooo….it appears I’ve been leaving out a character in my YA books. The school police officer. Call me totally uninformed, but I didn’t know that schools had real police officers in their hallways. I mean, I knew that some inner-city schools had...

Strike Two

(this guy is supposed to be shrugging his shoulders like, “huh?” but I guess it’s not going to work. Use your imagination!) I hate it when I get a string of books I don’t like because then not only am I wasting my reading time, but I have...

Offended

I just read a young adult book that offended me. I’m not easily offended at all and while there are plenty of books out there I don’t like because of the topic or the graphic detail, I generally don’t pass judgment on them based on an author’s...