![]() ![]() ![]() She majored in home economics in college. But she later told me that she envied my good grades. And the younger one kind of a nerd bookish child. So although I fictionalized it, I did recreate the two sisters: the older one pretty popular, cheerleader, homecoming queen at penn state, all the things that I envied. We had been very close and she died young and so that was a story probably that I had been telling to myself and - to a lesser degree - to friends I suppose for many years and then when they said write us a book that’s what came to my mind. I had just one sister, three years older. I had been writing for adults but an editor came to me and asked me to write a book for kids and did not suggest any topic and just expressed an interest in whatever I might write and I think perhaps, not surprisingly, I turned my thoughts and my attention to something from my own history something from my own life and it had to do with the death of my older sister when we were both young. So that’s 30 years ago and that book is still in print. ![]() ![]() My first book for kids was called “A Summer to Die”. I was just today signing a new edition of its new cover and that was published in 1977 and I signed those books today in 19- excuse me 2007. ![]()
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