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• Recipe for world peace

  November 19, 2009

  • A growing number of Americans are going hungry or eating less, due to the economy, and you'd be surprised at how many people I know—(including Obama-voting Dems as well as Republicans)-- who actually think that someone else's hunger is not of concern to all of us.   The people I hear saying "not my problem"  or "let them help themselves" are often the same people who ...
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• HEROES

  August 12, 2009

  •   In the old days all the lead characters in our books were heroes.   And now we find our hero crossing the swamp in a leaky raft... Spying on her violent neighbors, from a creaky elevator shaft, our hero held her breath... Our hero escaping her kidnappers, only to run into a pack of wolves...     I write for teens, and most of  the kids in my novels have been ...
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