“You Have to Love It.” Brittany Cavallaro on Writing for Young Adults
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Like Sylvie, the protagonist of my new novel, Wayfarers, I grew up in downstate cornfield Illinois, where I was an odd duck in a small pond. I was always reading, always writing. Poetry, and stories, and two-hundred page novels about Sphinxes and bottomless pits and killer tornadoes. I was terrified of tornadoes, actually—I think a lot of kids growing up in central Illinois were, and are—and so, in fifth grade, I wrote a novel about a civilization that had moved underground (literally). My teach
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