Reader, meet Thisbe: a Grade 9 student and an aspiring novelist. Her passions also include carbs, swimming and Fishbone, her cat.  Thisbe is dying to share her writing with someone, but who? Her parents are away and their home has been taken over by the eccentric Granny Ed and Chutney, her evil-smelling dog. Besides, both of her parents are academics and Thisbe wants to write books that people actually read...   Here's what Alyssa in Virginia, US had to say about the novel:   The Kingdom of Strange was amazing. I really want to be a writer when I grow up too, and there's some amazing poetry in the book, too. It's one of those books that I can read and reread random sections and just never get tired of... I hate how some kids at school only read the super popular books that everyone reads, and never looks at that little shelf in the back. I LIVE on that little shelf in the back. This book is an inspiration. For more comments, please stop by Readers have said...  New Interview In March 2010 I was interviewed by popular blogger, Little Willow. Check out her page, Bildungsroman, for the juicy stuff!
Best Friends Forever: A World War II Scrapbook will be in stores in April 2010! Beverly Patt is the author of this touching, funny and thought-provoking account of a friendship between two teenage girls, Dottie and Louise. When war is declared, Dottie and her Japanese-American family are interned in a former fairground in Puyallup, WA. As the war progresses, the two girls correspond and Louise keeps a chronicle of her best friend's absence in her scrapbook. Dottie's artwork (which I painted and drew) illustrate this gorgeously designed book, which also includes photographs, contemporary newspaper clippings and dog pawprints! As always, Marshall Cavendish's design department has created a treasure that readers will want to keep with their own mementoes, in years to come. Best Friends Forever has already received a School Library Journal starred review. It was also chosen as a Spring 2010, Great Lakes, Great Reads pick.
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