Tweet Yesterday I reviewed Instructions for a Broken Heart, a young adult novel by Kim Culbertson. Today, Kim answers a few questions for readers at Mother Daughter Book Club. com. How did you decide to become a writer? KC: I … Continue reading
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Tweet Just before she’s set to leave for Italy with her high school drama club, Jessa catches her boyfriend, Sean, making out with another girl. Going on the trip is harder than she thought it would be, especially because Sean … Continue reading
Tweet Louise Lambert loves vintage clothing. Even though her mother and her best friend think she’s crazy not to want something new, she loves the feeling of mystery that she gets from the unknown stories she senses in each piece. … Continue reading
Tweet Children’s author Ralph Fletcher seemed to live an ideal life for a child. The oldest of a large clan in the small town of Marshfield, Massachusetts, Fletcher had nearby woods to roam in, numerous bothers and neighbors to recruit … Continue reading
Tweet A couple of weeks ago I reviewed Mothers and Daughters by Rae Meadows, a book about the complex relationship between three generations of women and their daughters. Today, I’m excited to feature a Q and A with Meadows and … Continue reading
Tweet What attracted me first to the story of Great-aunt Clara and Great-grandmother Helga was the astonishing bravado of it: A mother and daughter dared to walk by themselves nearly coast to coast in 1896, meeting the whole range of … Continue reading
Tweet Seventeen-year-old Clara longs to escape the confines of her family homestead in small Mica Creek, near Spokane, Washington. But finances are tight, and the family is in danger of losing their home and land if they don’t raise the … Continue reading
Tweet Jody and her friends, Giselle and Vivian, can’t believe their music teacher has to cancel their trip to Paris for a musical competition. It was supposed to be the last chance they would have to play together before Jody … Continue reading