Werlin's third novel, another mystery that is entitled
Locked Inside, concerns a young heiress who is kidnapped and in the circumstances is obliged to rethink her idealized relationship with her deceased mother.
Cut with an emotionally intense edge, Werlin's fiction never talks down to her young readers. Indeed, her first novel was planned as adult fiction. Three drafts later, on the advice of a friend who is a children's book writer, Werlin recast that original novel as young adult fiction. In a February 2000 interview with Authors and Artist for Young Adults (AAYA), Werlin noted, "I actually think of myself more as writing about teenagers than for them. Teens and adults are on similar reading levels and the only difference between most books for teens and most books for adults is that the protagonists in a teen novel are themselves teenagers. Perhaps I'm so intrigued with this time of life because it was such an uncomfortable one for me. My characters all tend to be uneasy in their teenager skins, just as I was."
Book-crazy Kid
Nancy Werlin grew up in Peabody, Massachusetts, the youngest of three daughters. In her AAYA interview, she described being raised in what she terms "a middle-class Jewish home." Werlin's father was an engineer and computer programmer while her mother was a homemaker, although she later went back to college and earned her bachelor of arts degree.
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