Award-winning author Matt de la Peña reflects on the all of the times in his life he has felt like he didn’t fit in and how those experiences have helped in as a writer.
The Catcher in the Rye, a book about a teenager who was in real distress writing in his own voice, became a kind of starting point for a new genre in books for young people.
Award-winning author Matt de la Peña talks about a reference to addiction in one of Loren Long’s illustrations of their picture book Love and the ways in which that reference has empowered young people to talk share their own stories.
