It’s Monday afternoon, and as I write this we are flying down route Rt. 66 (now called I-15) with the air conditioner pushed to its very limit. It’s 108 degrees just outside of Baker, CA and we’re on our way to L.A., passing through the edge of Death Valley. Death as in nothing grows here….

Check out this incredible fan art for I Am the Wallpaper, an amazing drawing by Jessica N, an 8th grader at St. Eugene School in Bayside, WI. I love, love, love it! Any other talented folks out there with art to share? 🙂      

  A new adapted-text edition of the book Lemonade Mouth will be in bookstores starting May 24. The text is almost the same as the original but slightly adapted for the new younger audience brought to the book via Disney’s movie.  Random House ISBN-10: 0385742088 ISBN-13: 978-0385742085

I am the Wallpaper by Mark Peter Hughes is about a girl who goes from ordinary to extraordinary. Floey Packer has always felt like the boring one in her family because compared to her popular, exciting, older sister Lillian, she is never as interesting. But when Lillian gets married and leaves for her month-long honeymoon,…