Family, friends, home, school: troubles come with the territory, and Bauer, by taking up some of the trails through adolescence, ends up walking a stretch alongside her young readers. Though her characters rarely find definite solutions, they always learn a few things along the way: Running away gets you nowhere if you're carrying the problem inside you. Honesty is a pretty good policy. Kids can make choices and the consequences matter. The truth is usually more than one thing.
"My stories are meant to ask unanswerable questions, to share pain, to test insights, and most of all, to make connections," Bauer once explained in Contemporary Authors. "I am always writing toward that moment when a reader will say, 'But I thought I was the only one who ever felt that, thought that, wanted that'; and when the moment comes, my story has found its reason for being." The author of seventeen books for young people, she has received numerous awards over the course of her twenty-year career as a published writer--including a 1987 Newbery Honor Book award for On My Honor--attesting to the successful connection her books make with readers' lives. Bauer believes that storytelling responds to a basic human need.
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