Besides 31 Flavorite Authors for Teens, what other plans do you have in store for readergirlz?
You’ll see readergirlz create innovative, unprecedented literacy initiatives to engage teens in books in fun, hip, and relevant ways. For instance, come this holiday season, you’ll see our new program called Best Books for BFF—which are sassy bookmarks that highlight overlooked novels so that teens read beyond the bestseller list. And then we have something very cool in the works with YALSA. On you readergirlz site, you state you are not only celebrating strong girls but inspiring them…. What do you think are the chances of something like this happening and how can we help? Launching and running readergirlz is and has been an enormous amount of work—especially considering that Dia Calhoun, Janet Lee Carey, Lorie Ann Grover, and I are all working writers with families. We just believe in teen literacy so much that it is worth the extra hours we spend on readergirlz instead of our other projects. I am extremely hopeful that authors who write primarily for guyz will take the challenge and
