Sleepless is a little different from your most recent novels in that there’s a light science fiction touch. How did you decide that you wanted to go in a slightly fantastical direction to tell this story? For me, Sleepless began with the pretty mundane reflection that there’s never enough time to do everything you want to do. And when I started to explore that idea, the most [...]

This month, we Feature Terry Maguire, Secondary School Librarian at The American International School of Mozambique. She has been in Maputo for the past five years. She is passionate about keeping teens reading – even into the Diploma years. She is also excited about a local library project that she and a group of committed […]

Books hold many powers, as author Varsha Bajaj can attest. She credits books for helping her make the cultural transition to the United States after growing up in Mumbai, India. In turn, several of Bajaj’s middle grade novels and picture books now introduce young readers to intriguing details about her country of birth. Bajaj’s newest novel, Roar (Nancy Paulsen [...]