Deenie

Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret

<h4>Nina Berry grew up bodysurfing in Hawaii, learned to throw snowballs at the University of Chicago, and now lives and works in Hollywood, pretending to lead the glamorous life. Along the way she worked at Playboy, got a screenplay optioned, and wrote for a TV show called Ghost Stories. Inspired by novels she loved as a teen, she sold her debut YA paranormal novel OTHERKIN to KTeen in 2011. When not writing, Nina loves to travel, read, and tweet links about saving big cats in the wild. Nina blogs at ninaberry.com, and you can follow her on Twitter @Ninaberry or hang out with her on Facebook at www.facebook.com/writerninaberry</h4>

Nina Berry

Judy Blume Was Right: On Reading Deenie Twice

Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.
— Dr. Seuss

Young Adult &amp; Children’s Literature

<h4>Andrea Kleine writes fiction, plays, performance works, and occasional criticism and pontifications on art. She is a five time MacDowell Colony fellow, a Montalvo Arts Center literary fellow, a New York Foundation for the Arts fellow, and was valedictorian of her eighth grade class. She is currently living in New York and working on a novel. website:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.andreakleine.com/">www.andreakleine.com</a></h4>

Andrea Kleine

<h4>Nell Beram is coauthor of the young-adult biography&nbsp;Yoko Ono: Collector of Skies&nbsp;(Amulet Books, 2013).&nbsp;She is a former&nbsp;Atlantic Monthly&nbsp;staff editor and a former columnist for&nbsp;The Horn Book Magazine.</h4>

Nell Beram

Judy Blume: Three Essays

Nina Berry grew up bodysurfing in Hawaii, learned to throw snowballs at the University of Chicago, and now lives and works in Hollywood, pretending to lead the glamorous life. Along the way she worked at Playboy, got a screenplay optioned, and wrote for a TV show called Ghost Stories. Inspired by novels she loved as a teen, she sold her debut YA paranormal novel OTHERKIN to KTeen in 2011. When not writing, Nina loves to travel, read, and tweet links about saving big cats in the wild. Nina blogs at ninaberry.com, and you can follow her on Twitter @Ninaberry or hang out with her on Facebook at www.facebook.com/writerninaberry