Middle-grade fiction is a great escape in a world where impending doom seems to be normalized more and more every day.
Young Adult fiction
Everything at Once, and All in Good Time
By Mackenzie Deater @Kenzi_Rose
Sleeping in My Jeans is officially one year out. While our official pub date is yet to be set, we’re planning on putting the book out sometime in November of 2018. To many, that would seem like a ton of time. What could you possibly do with an entire year until your book publishes? You’d be surprised.
Researching Today and Forever, but Mostly Today
By Mackenzie Deater
Sleeping in My Jeans is the story of one sixteen-year-old Mattie Rollins who abruptly finds herself homeless with her mother and six-year-old sister, Meg. Though handling the pressures of school, a social life, and watching over her sister while their mother looks for an apartment are tough, nothing’s as bad as when Mattie’s mom turns up missing. A thrilling account of one girl’s struggle to keep herself and her family together, Sleeping in My Jeans is more than just a suspenseful YA novel. It brings up a host of legitimate issues that real children like Mattie face every single day in places like Eugene, OR, where the story is set.
Are you reading the summer away, or have you barely picked up a book?
By Stephanie Sandmeyer
When I was between eleven and fourteen years old, there wasn’t a whole lot to choose from in terms of books for and about young adults. I consumed the entire Sweet Valley High series (I know, gross and gag me with a spoon, in the parlance of those times), anything by Judy Blume (which would […]
The Ninth Day Launch
By Meagan Lobnitz
Dense northwest fog, a lively group of graduate students, writers, and community members, and the irrepressibly joyful energy of local author Ruth Tenzer Feldman converged on December 16th at the historic Koehler house in NW Portland for the launch of Ruth’s newest book, The Ninth Day, published by Ooligan Press. The Ninth Day is a […]