Just Right Reads is a series hosted by Kamilla Benko, children’s book editor and author of the forthcoming The Unicorn Quest, featuring newly released middle grade books and Q&As with your favorite authors! Soman Chainani, New York Times-bestselling author of The School for Good and Evil series, chats with Kamilla Benko about this first book in […]
The angst of figuring out who you are in middle school is central to stories like Tim Federle’s (Better Nate Than Ever) “Secret Samantha” in which a girl named Sam sees in the cool new California girl a potential friend who also kicks back against social norms of gender. In “Main Street,” by Jacqueline Woodson […]
Some authors create worlds so magical, so wonderful, that we never want to leave them. Sometimes it means reading the same story over and over; sometimes it means imagining stories of our own. But readers aren’t the only ones who can’t stand to leave these fabulous book worlds behind; sometimes authors can’t, either. And thanks […]