ALAN Online

As many of us prepare to travel to New Orleans in a few weeks for ALA, it is perhaps fitting that Kimberly Willis Holt’s galley was the one I picked up to read yesterday. Still a bit jetlagged, I thought I would read a bit and then take a nap. The gods of [...]

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When I saw the title of the newest offering by Edward Bloor, I knew it had to make the journey across the Pond to England. Yesterday, on the flight back to Houston, I cracked it open and fell into a world I had just finished visiting, London of the past, present, and near future. [...]

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When Paski’s (short for Pasquala Rumalda Quintana de Archuleta) father moves them to sunny California from New Mexico, she is in for some rude awakenings. School is no longer a place where she feels accepted and part of a group of friends. Instead, she is faced with all the “haters”, those students who [...]

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Back finally from a week long vacation across the pond. My first trip abroad was incredible, but so were the three books I managed to squeeze in during transit. I began the 10 hour flight to London with BLUE BLOODS by Melissa de la Cruz (she of the Au Pair fame) mostly because [...]

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1. creating Ruby Oliver, a complex teen girl who makes me laugh and wince alternately (could it be because I recognize the Ruby in me?)2. writing novels about said Ruby that make me laugh even though sometimes the laugh is a rueful one3. making me care about Ruby and whether she will ever hook up with [...]

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