"I was about nineteen the summer I wrote my first novel," author Randy Powell told Authors and Artists for Young Adults (AAYA) in an interview, "and it was about a kid who was nineteen who had no idea what he was doing or where he was going. That novel...

Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Sunburst. 215p. c1999, 0-374-47968-2. $5.95. JS To quote from the review of the hardcover in KLIATT, March 1999: Grady Grennan, age 15, has returned to his hometown of Seattle for a tribute to his mother Debbie, a Janis...

216 pp. Farrar 4/02 ISBN 0-374-37526-7 16.00 (g) (High School) Three Clams and an Oyster is a four-man flag football team that has been playing together since the fifth grade. As they enter their seventh season, the Oyster, the hard-partying Cade Savage,...