Why I Do It

"Of all the stages of life, adolescence is the most volatile--full of promise, energy, and, because of newly achieved freedom and potency, substantial peril. In its freshness, adolescence is attractive. In its enthusiasms, it can be, to older folks at least, exhausting. For most people, it is pivotal: it is the time of life when we find out who we are becoming, what we are good at, what and whom we like. What happens in these years profoundly affects what follows."

~ Theodore R. Sizer

This is why I read and write fiction for young people.