I’m delighted that STAINED is one of Bank Street College’s Book of the Year for ages Fourteen and Up

I’m delighted that STAINED is one of Bank Street College Center for Children’s Literature’s Book of the Year for ages Fourteen and Up! (beaming)

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It’s such a feel-good thing to have my book recognized! For any author to have that happen. (grinning)

In the ages Fourteen and Up category, I am in the absolutely fantastic company of authors Sara Zarr and Tara Altebrando (Roomies), Andrew Smith (Winger), David Levithan (Two Boys Kissing), Holly Black (The Coldest Girl In Coldtown), Alex London (Proxy), Rainbow Rowell (Eleanor & Park, and Fangirl), Adele Griffin (Loud Awake and Lost), Erin Bowman (Taken), Patrick Ness (More Than This), Bill Konigsberg (Openly Straight), Cal Armistead (Being Henry David), and many, many others. Some of my favorite authors and books are on this list! I hope you’ll check it out to find many more great reads that you might not have read yet. I know I will be.