Jewell Parker Rhodes will never forget the first story she wrote in third grade. It was called “The Last Scream.” She remembers reading it aloud t...

When Beth Ain sets out to write a story, she first makes lists to keep track of her thoughts. She begins by making a list about the characters, and th...

Writer Andrew Clements seems to know a lot about what middle school kids feel. In the book Troublemaker, Clayton Hensley is mischievous but not quite ...

You would think that writers are good readers. Not Jenn Reese. “I started out as a terrible reader,” she admits. “So bad, I had to attend specia...

Gitty Daneshvari began writing humor-filled spooky books to help face her childhood fears. As a young girl, Gitty says she worried about everything fr...