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Chapters 1-3

Joel and Tony set out on an ill-fated bike ride to the state park, where they encounter the dangerous Vermillion River. Despite Joel's reservations, Tony insists on swimming in the treacherous waters, leading to a tragic drowning.

Chapters 4-6

Joel grapples with guilt and anguish as he confronts the stark reality of Tony's death. He struggles to come to terms with the part he played in the events that led to the tragedy, feeling the weight of responsibility and the burden of secrecy.

Chapters 7-9

As Joel's internal turmoil intensifies, he seeks solace and guidance from his family. His parents attempt to offer support and understanding, but Joel remains haunted by his conscience and the overwhelming sense of guilt.

Chapters 10-12

The emotional turmoil reaches a peak as Joel confronts the harsh truth about his role in Tony's death. The devastating consequences of their ill-fated adventure reverberate through the small town, leaving Joel to grapple with the aftermath and the pain of loss.

Friendship and Loyalty

The novel explores the profound bond between Joel and Tony, delving into the complexities of friendship and the enduring impact of loyalty. Through their shared experiences and the tragic turn of events, the story highlights the depth of their connection and the profound impact of their relationship.

Guilt and Redemption

"On My Honor" delves into the intricate emotions of guilt and redemption as Joel grapples with the overwhelming burden of responsibility for Tony's death. The narrative delves into the complexities of remorse and the journey toward self-forgiveness, offering poignant insights into the human experience.

Coming of Age

The novel presents a poignant portrayal of the challenges and revelations of adolescence, capturing the tumultuous journey of self-discovery and growth. Joel's experiences serve as a poignant exploration of the complexities of coming of age, as he navigates the weight of adult responsibilities and confronts the harsh realities of life.

"On My Honor" offers readers a powerful and emotionally resonant narrative that delves into the complexities of friendship, guilt, and the transformative nature of personal responsibility. Through its compelling storytelling and relatable characters, the novel invites readers to contemplate the profound impact of our choices and the enduring power of human connection. Marion Dane Bauer's masterful prose and vivid characterizations create a deeply moving reading experience that lingers in the hearts and minds of readers long after the final page.

In "On My Honor," Marion Dane Bauer weaves a poignant and emotionally charged narrative that delves into the complexities of friendship, guilt, and the transformative power of personal responsibility. Set against the backdrop of a small Midwestern town, the novel captures the profound impact of tragic loss and the enduring strength of human connection. Through its compelling storytelling and vivid characterizations, "On My Honor" offers readers a thought-provoking exploration of the human experience, inviting them to contemplate the weight of our choices and the enduring nature of friendship.

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What is 'on my honor' about.

On My Honor is a young adult novel by Marion Dane Bauer that tells the story of two young boys, Joel and Tony, who go on a bike ride to a forbidden river and face the consequences of their actions.

Who is the author of 'On My Honor'?

Marion Dane Bauer is the author of 'On My Honor'. She is a prolific writer of children's and young adult literature, known for her sensitive and thought-provoking storytelling.

What age group is 'On My Honor' suitable for?

The book is suitable for young adult readers, typically recommended for ages 10-14. It deals with themes of friendship, responsibility, and the consequences of actions.

Is 'On My Honor' a part of a series?

No, 'On My Honor' is a standalone novel and not part of a series.

What are the major themes in 'On My Honor'?

The major themes in 'On My Honor' include friendship, guilt, responsibility, loss, and the challenges of adolescence.

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Newbery Honor Book. “A gripping, compassionate portrayal of a boy’s struggle with conscience” (Kirkus) by bestselling author Marion Dane Bauer.While on a bike trip, Joel’s best friend Tony drowns while they are swimming in the forbidden, treacherous Vermilion River. Joel is terrified at having to tell of his disobedience and overwhelmed by his feelings of guilt, even though the daring act was Tony’s idea, and Joel didn’t know that Tony couldn’t swim. But Joel’s loving and protective father will help him deal with the tragic aftermath–and understand that we all must live with the choices we make. “A powerful, soul-stirring novel told simply and well.” –Booklist (starred review)”This is a devastating but beautifully written story of a boy’s all-consuming guilt over the role he plays in the death of his best friend. Bauer’s honest and gripping novel joins the ranks of such as Katherine Paterson’s Bridge to Terabithia in its handling of these issues.” –Publishers Weekly”Descriptions are vivid, characterization and dialogue natural, and the style taut but unforced. A powerful, moving book.” –School Library Journal

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Written by Marion Dane Bauer

Reviewed by Amber B. (age 9)

In the book On My Honor Joel and Tony asked Tony’s dad if they could ride their bikes to the park. Tony’s dad said only if they went straight to the park. The boys took off with their bikes. Tony was scared to go to the park because it was too far out, so they went to the Vermillion River. Tony decided to stop on the Vermillion River Bridge. He was looking over the bridge and decided to go swimming in the dirty river water.

Even though Joel knew better than to go, Tony made fun out of him until he went into the water. Tony bet Joel he couldn’t swim to the sand bar that was about 100 feet from where they were standing. As they were swimming Tony realized Joel couldn’t really swim. When Tony got to the sand bar he turned around and realized Joel was gone. He thought that Joel was hiding in the bushes, or that he headed up to the State Park. Read the book to find out what happened to Tony and Joel.

Joel reminds me of myself because we are both out spoken and daredevils. He always tries to get Tony to do stuff he doesn't want to do and knows he shouldn’t do. I do the same at home. I tell my brother and sisters to do stuff they shouldn’t do such as telling them to go outside when they shouldn’t do it.

This book teaches a lesson. You should listen to your parents and not go somewhere without them knowing. We shouldn’t let peer pressure make you do something you know is not right. Joel knew better than to go in the water. Tony laughed at him. Joel didn’t want to be laughed at, so he went in.

I felt sad for Tony because he lost his best friend. He didn’t know how to go back to Joel’s parents and tell them what had happened to Joel. He felt sad because he should have gone to the state park. Sometimes I wish that I could go back and undo something I did. But it can’t be done.

The story reminds me of my uncle’s car accident and how hard it was on his family to hear the news. It’s not easy loosing a family member. I know that it had to be hard on Joel’s family to hear of his accident.

I recommend this book because it is good and easy to follow. It would be a good book for 4th to 6th grade. It will interest readers and get involved in the story. It is a story that could happen to them.

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'honor' is a searing meditation on the meaning of dignity in a dehumanizing world.

Sharmila Mukherjee

Thrity Umrigar's important new novel Honor isn't an easy read.

From depictions of casual misogyny to distressing scenes of public shaming, mistreatment and torture, the novel shows the terrifying social forces that strip vulnerable people of dignity and render them animal-like. It's a searing meditation on the meaning of dignity in a dehumanizing world.

Honor is set in today's India. This isn't the globalized India of news or the India of IT excellence and an ambitious space mission. It's the unseemly side of the country, blighted by cultural conservatism, poverty, sectarian violence, caste hierarchies and misogyny.

Umrigar, an English professor at Case Western Reserve University, has set several of her past novels in this tumultuous India, investigating fraught social issues such as caste and class divides, the lure of fundamentalism and culture clash. Her critically acclaimed novel The Space Between Us told with impeccable delicacy a story of friendship between two women of different backgrounds. Honor adds an element that the author has not addressed before: extreme violence.

Umrigar writes not only as an elegant storyteller but as a sharp-eyed reporter, no doubt informed by her experience as a former journalist. Her reportorial style takes us deep into the lives and minds of vividly realized characters, showing us their gestural quirks, geniality and, at times, horrific cruelty. If you are familiar with the country, the novel's depiction of Indian manners will seem startlingly true-to-life.

Umrigar's reportorial style is particularly apt because her central character, Smita Agarwal, is a journalist. Born in India, Smita moved to the U.S. with her family when she was a teen. Twenty years later, she arrives in Mumbai to help her friend, a fellow journalist, Shannon Carpenter, recover from a serious injury. In truth, Shannon wants her to cover an assignment for her: a grisly crime in a village named Birwad on the Maharashtra-Gujarat border.

Meena, a Hindu woman, and Abdul, a Muslim man, fell in love and married in defiance of the social proscription against interfaith marriage. Infuriated by the perceived dishonor she has caused to the family, Meena's brothers set them on fire in their home. Abdul has died; but Meena, pregnant at the time, survives, although severely disabled. She has filed a lawsuit against her brothers with the help of a lawyer activist, Anjali, and is awaiting the court's verdict. The story confirms everything Smita dislikes about India: its social backwardness and lack of respect for civil liberty. Still, she agrees to step in and makes the journey to the country's dark reaches. But by now it is clear to the reader that Smita is carrying an emotional baggage of her own surrounding the circumstances of her family's departure for the U.S.

As much as Honor is about India's humanitarian crisis, it is also about a transformative journey. We witness Smita's emotional and spiritual blossoming in the process of writing.

Honor leads us from the dirty, crowded but cosmopolitan Mumbai into the choking, retrograde world of Birwad, exposing India's entrenched prejudices and twisted patriarchal values. Nowhere is this more clearly shown than in the opinion of a villager Smita interviews. Commenting on Meena's brothers, he says: "Killing that Muslim dog? Fine. But they should not have touched that girl. No, he should have just dragged her back home and kept her locked up for the cooking-cleaning." Umrigar unsparingly reveals the social conditioning that enables persecution.

To inhabit Birwad and its surrounds is to be enclosed in a bell jar of violence, fire and smoke. Embodying the destructive forces of the region is Rupal, the chief of the neighboring village of Vithalgaon, who aided Meena's brothers in their heinous act. In this novel, there's no whodunit-style mystery, no genius villain lurking to be caught. The horror is how unabashedly Rupal gloats over the crime as a justified act of honor.

Yet the novel is not without relief from its gruesome portrayal of depravity. Meena's reminiscence of her love for Abdul, told in the first person, has a sweet tenderness. Once Smita and Meena talk, the asymmetrical structure of the interview begins to dissolve; the space between them closes up.

Nightmarish violence explodes once the court verdict comes out. The terrible events that ensue allow Umrigar to uncover the meaning of honor: not in grand acts of heroism but in small gestures of dignity and care.

Honor calls to mind Megha Majumdar's novel A Burning . Both novels emerge from the same world of rot: India's deep seated hatred, poverty, illiteracy and corruption. Both examine our capacity for moral behavior in the face of extreme circumstances. But Umrigar's vision is more optimistic than Majumdar's.

By the end of the novel Smita not only finds companionship, purpose and the ability to confront her trauma but she also learns the value of selflessness. Smita's friendship and romance with a man named Mohan is crucial in opening her to the Eastern philosophical tradition based on sacrifice. Umrigar suggests that the solution to India's social ills lies in this philosophical tradition rather than in Western tenets of individualism.

Writing about a social problem in a developing country is a notoriously difficult task. For one thing, it can easily become poverty porn, written for the perverse entertainment of privileged Western readers. The story of a transformative journey of a privileged character at the expense of disadvantaged subjects may also sound exploitative. Then there's the question: What should one do in response to a social crisis?

Umrigar tackles some of these challenges well. Yet she also lapses into sentimental didacticism that sounds inauthentic. The novel's conclusion is a crowd pleasing melodrama that ticks all the correct boxes. To some extent it follows inevitably from the novel's premise. But for all its structural weakness, the earnestness of Umrigar's intention is unquestionable: She convinces us that to read is to comprehend and to comprehend is to act.

Sharmila Mukherjee's writing has been published or is forthcoming in The Seattle Times, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Star Tribune and the Washington Post. She holds a PhD in English from the University of Washington.

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The selection of J.D. Vance on Monday as Donald Trump’s running mate is a direct result of the political media’s failure to understand class in America. For his 2016 memoir, “Hillbilly Elegy,” Vance was venerated by many journalists and book critics as a powerful voice representing long-overlooked Americans. But he’s no working-class hero.

Vance portrayed this group — 35% of Americans , by the way — as tragic victims of alcoholism, drug abuse, laziness and their own self-destructive moral failings. Journalists ran with that, bringing their own stereotypes to depict the working class as angry, uneducated white men driven by economic insecurity and racist nostalgia to support Trump’s retrogressive campaign.

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This distortion, in turn, widened a real divide by alienating many Americans, fueling support for Trump and even veneration of Vance.

Lauded by David Brooks as the interpreter of some mythical “working-class honor code” that could illuminate the motivations of the core Trump voter, Vance was praised in reviews in the New York Times , the Washington Post and a host of other publications, and he became the go-to guy on the working-class perspective. CNN hired him as a political pundit.

This was no better than the “parachute journalism” of upper-middle-class reporters who would visit an Appalachian tavern for one afternoon and then presume to tell the nation what the working class was thinking.

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So who actually is the working class? Consistent data has shown that, in the words of the Center for American Progress, “Black, Hispanic, and other workers of color make up 45 percent of the working class, while non-Hispanic white workers comprise the remaining 55 percent. Nearly half of the working class is women, and 8 percent have disabilities.” Media portrayals that equate this group with uneducated white men elide most of the people who actually fit the definition.

A few contemporary reports called out Vance’s misrepresentations and the media’s fallacious thinking. In October 2016, writing for the Guardian, journalist Sarah Smarsh pointed out that exit polls and surveys showed that Trump supporters had a higher median income — $72,000 — than supporters of Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders. Vance himself, she reported, had been raised in a middle-class household. By ignoring such realities, Smarsh argued, “Media makers cast the white working class as a monolith and imply an old, treacherous story convenient to capitalism: that the poor are dangerous idiots.”

Another journalist, Elizabeth Catte , also notably called out national media misrepresentations, including in her 2018 book, “What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia.” It should have been required reading as a reality check for anyone who heard Vance on TV or read his book.

A brilliant work like Stephanie Land ’s 2019 memoir, “Maid,” became the basis of a Netflix series, but even as journalists praised the book, they failed to feature her as a pundit. Kerri Arsenault’s “Mill Town,” a memoir-history of a small town in Maine, was reviewed, but again, her expertise didn’t appear in mainstream political commentary. Worst of all, when historian Steven Stoll’s masterful history of Appalachia, “Ramp Hollow,” was published in 2017, the New York Times allowed Vance himself to review it; he criticized Stoll’s “polemical” views of the market economy and dismissed the author as “earnest.”

The voices of Black historians were largely ignored, because Black voters of a certain kind were being ignored. Historian Blair LM Kelley published “Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class” last fall, linking the Black working class to America’s history of slavery. It received scant media attention. Joe William Trotter’s “ Workers on Arrival: Black Labor in the Making of America ” suffered a similar fate, although it earned academic awards.

Ironically, before he abandoned his distrust of Trump and joined the right-wing-fringe circus, even Vance thought the media had gotten it wrong in various ways.

The news media must not fail the working class again. The stakes are too high. Trump has made clear his desire to dismantle the authority of the federal government, turn social policy over to Christian nationalists and take away any regulation of industries that contribute to climate change or that devastate communities and land through extractive practices such as fracking.

But I’m not optimistic that critics and journalists have learned much since the debacle of 2016.

When Barbara Kingsolver’s novel “Demon Copperhead” came out in October 2022, I described the book’s perspective as pitying toward the people of Appalachia while also intimating that “falling into drug abuse, rejecting education, and ‘clinging’ to their ways are moral choices that keep them in their dire circumstances. Appalachia becomes the region of the damned.”

But “Demon Copperhead” received near-universal rave reviews and won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.

The privileged class learned all the wrong lessons from Vance’s book, if they learned anything from it. I hope more journalists will do better now that he and Trump are headed for the ballot as a package deal.

Lorraine Berry is a writer and critic in Eugene, Ore. @BerryFLW

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• Your Honor continues to succeed, beating out popular Netflix originals like Bridgerton .
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Your Honor keeps on winning four years after the series first premiered. Starring Break Bad 's Bryan Cranston , the series was a hit when the first season of the thrilling crime drama debuted on Showtime. Billed initially as a limited series, the show was revived for a successful second season that premiered in 2023. This was after the premise captured other creatives in several markets worldwide, and several remakes were born. Recently, the series was added to Netflix , and without fail, it emerged victorious. Your Honor beat other popular Netflix originals like Bridgerton and was the most streamed series.

Given this recent success, questions about a third season have begun floating around. Deadline talked to CBS Studios' boss, David Stapf , and asked about a possible third season. CBS Studios was the production company behind the series, and in cases where shows find success on other platforms, reboots have become common. "We love the show, and we're hoping that it can continue," said Stapf, signaling something positive. He was, however, quick to caution fans about raising their expectations, "but it's a little too soon to know or to tell." Stapf did not reveal what hurdles might be present on the path to Season 3 but spoke about CBS Studios' position, saying, "we would like there to be a Season 3, but we're ways away."

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Season 2 recalls Judge Desiato from prison to help a new DA build a case against the Baxters. Judge Desiato learns that his family and the Baxters are intertwined in ways he could never have imagined. The second season was well received despite not being on the cards originally. The series tied up some loose ends but l eft other arcs hanging , which would be interesting to explore in the case of a third season .

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The Executive Vice President of the Trump Organization said his father has proven time and time again that he is not fueled by personal ambition but by courage, determination and profound love for the American people.

"My father has been persecuted, targeted by far left Democrats, funded by special interest groups and handpicked judges. My father has been pulled off the ballot of states, radical justices attempting to defy the will of millions of Americans who adore who he is and what he stands for," Eric Trump said.

Eric's words followed Wednesday's speech by Donald Trump Jr., who attacked the administration of President Joe Biden on inflation, border policy and so-called cancel culture. Trump Jr. also complained about the Department of Justice and the 34 state felony convictions against the former president.

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On the first night of the convention Monday, during an interview with NBC News ' Savannah Gutherie, the 40-year-old reflected on his father surviving Saturday's assassination attempt and his plans for an "incredibly positive" speech. He also praised his dad's decision to select Ohio Sen. JD Vance as his running mate.

"The chemistry between the two of them... is really tremendous," Eric Trump said. They communicate well."

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USA TODAY and the USA TODAY Network have more than 60 journalists on the ground in Milwaukee and you can follow along with our live blog for updates throughout the day .

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The Republicans' convention will take place over four days, from July 15-18 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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Your Honor continues to have an incredibly impressive, completely unexpected run on Netflix , where it’s been inside Netflix’s Top 10 list since it arrived on the service on May 31, a month and a half ago. No other show, not even Bridgerton I don’t think, has lasted longer on that list during that time.

The Showtime original only ran two seasons and went on the service alongside a much more well-known show, Dexter. But it has put up an incredibly dominant performance and now, that may in fact lead to a season 3, according to Showtime/CBS.

In a Deadline interview with CBS Studios head David Stapf, the topic of Your Honor and its stunning performance came up in regard to bringing the show back for a potential season 3:

"We love the show, and we're hoping that it can continue," said Stapf. “but it's a little too soon to know or to tell. We would like there to be a Season 3, but we're ways away."

That likely revolves around both a concept for Your Honor season 3 and the availability of its big-name star, Bryan Cranston, his largest role since Breaking Bad. Here’s the synopsis of the show:

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“Michael Desiato is a prominent and respected New Orleans judge. When his teenage son Adam kills another teenager in an accidental hit-and-run collision, Michael encourages his son to turn himself in, but quickly changes his mind when he discovers the boy his son killed was the son of a mob kingpin.”

The show (spoilers) ends with Cranston’s character in prison, which is why when asked about season 3, he remains mixed:

“My comment was I’m not sure that there could be or there is,” Cranston said. “There is some discussion. Showtime has indicated there is interest and we’re very proud to know that every episode in Season 2 increased in the audience from the previous week. If it happens, fantastic but it’d have to be some great reason to keep expanding in this world and to find out where the allegiances are.”

This almost…has to happen with these sorts of viewership numbers? With or without Cranston. Again, I do not quite understand why this show of all shows has hit so hard on Netflix. It has not-great critic scores and somewhat middling audience scores but…people are watching. And people watch mixed-review stuff all the time, I suppose.

I do not see how season 3 of Your Honor doesn’t happen, but with nothing already in the works, it would likely be years away.

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On My Honor Audio CD – Audiobook, January 1, 1998

• Language English
• Publisher Recorded Books
• Publication date January 1, 1998
• ISBN-10 1402504608
• ISBN-13 978-1402504600
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• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Recorded Books; Unabridged edition (January 1, 1998)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1402504608
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1402504600
• Reading age ‏ : ‎ 9 - 12 years, from customers
• Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 7.2 ounces

About the author

Marion dane bauer.

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Newbery Honor Winner Continues to Challenge Herself—

and Readers—Twenty-Five Years Later

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Marion Dane Bauer is the author of more than eighty books for young people, ranging from novelty and picture books through early readers, both fiction and nonfiction, books on writing, and middle-grade and young-adult novels. She has won numerous awards, including several Minnesota Book Awards, a Jane Addams Peace Association Award for RAIN OF FIRE, an American Library Association Newbery Honor Award for ON MY HONOR, a number of state children's choice awards and the Kerlan Award from the University of Minnesota for the body of her work.

She is also the editor of and a contributor to the ground-breaking collection of gay and lesbian short stories, Am I Blue? Coming Out from the Silence.

Marion was one of the founding faculty and the first Faculty Chair for the Master of Fine Arts in Writing for Children and Young Adults program at Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her writing guide, the American Library Association Notable WHAT'S YOUR STORY? A YOUNG PERSON'S GUIDE TO WRITING FICTION, is used by writers of all ages. Her books have been translated into more than a dozen different languages.

She has six grandchildren and lives in St. Paul, Minnesota, with her partner and a cavalier King Charles spaniel, Dawn.

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INTERVIEW WITH MARION DANE BAUER

Q. What brought you to a career as a writer?

A. I seem to have been born with my head full of stories. For almost as far back as I can remember, I used most of my unoccupied moments--even in school when I was supposed to be doing other "more important" things--to make up stories in my head. I sometimes got a notation on my report card that said, "Marion dreams." It was not a compliment. But while the stories I wove occupied my mind in a very satisfying way, they were so complex that I never thought of trying to write them down. I wouldn't have known where to begin. So though I did all kinds of writing through my teen and early adult years--letters, journals, essays, poetry--I didn't begin to gather the craft I needed to write stories until I was in my early thirties. That was also when my last excuse for not taking the time to sit down to do the writing I'd so long wanted to do started first grade.

Q. And why write for young people?

A. Because I get my creative energy in examining young lives, young issues. Most people, when they enter adulthood, leave childhood behind, by which I mean that they forget most of what they know about themselves as children. Of course, the ghosts of childhood still inhabit them, but they deal with them in other forms--problems with parental authority turn into problems with bosses, for instance--and don't keep reaching back to the original source to try to fix it, to make everything come out differently than it did the first time. Most children's writers, I suspect, are fixers. We return, again and again, usually under the cover of made-up characters, to work things through. I don't know that our childhoods are necessarily more painful than most. Every childhood has pain it, because life has pain in it at every stage. The difference is that we are compelled to keep returning to the source.

Q. You write for a wide range of ages. Do you write from a different place in writing for preschoolers than for young adolescents?

A. In a picture book or board book, I'm always writing from the womb of the family, a place that--while it might be intruded upon by fears, for instance--is still, ultimately, safe and nurturing. That's what my own early childhood was like, so it's easy for me to return to those feelings and to recreate them.

When I write for older readers, I'm writing from a very different experience. My early adolescence, especially, was a time of deep alienation, mostly from my peers but in some ways from my family as well. And so I write my older stories out of that pain, that longing for connection. A story has to have a problem at its core. No struggle, no story. And so that struggle for connection has become the central experience of all my older fiction. It's what gives my stories heart and meaning.

Q. How does your Newbery Honor novel, On My Honor, fit with that pattern of writing about alienation and connection?

A. It would be easy to say that On My Honor is different from my other novels in that it was the first story I ever drew from a real event. Having a friend drown in a river wasn't something that happened to me, but it happened to a friend of mine when we were twelve or thirteen. When I heard about the incident at the time I felt it in a visceral way. What would it be like to have a choice I made turn into something so terrible and to know that I could never do anything to make the situation right? I wondered. That's where I started when I began writing the story, with the two boys on their bikes heading toward the river, everything about to go terribly wrong. Very quickly, though, I realized that while I had a clear story problem, the drowning, I had no solution for the problem . . . unless I was going to bring Tony back to life, and I wasn't writing that kind of story. At that point I instinctively backed up and started again. This time I began with Joel, the main character, asking his father's permission to bike with his friend Tony out to the state park, something Tony is pressuring him to do and which Joel is hoping his father will forbid. His father, not understanding the situation, gives permission, and Joel is furious . . . alienated. Once I had that opening, the frame for my story was set. Alienation in the opening, reconciliation at the end. The reconciliation can't change the fact of Tony's death, but it gives closure and comfort. So it fits the usual pattern for my novels. (Perhaps I should note that I didn't do any of this consciously. I wasn't saying, "I write about alienation and reconnection. How can I fit that in here?" I just reached for events that made the story feel right for me, and those were the ones to present themselves.)

Q. You often write animal stories: Ghost Eye, Runt, A Bear Named Trouble, and now Little Dog, Lost is about to come out. Is there any particular reason that you write about animals?

A. The first reason I write about animals is because animals touch a deep chord in my own psyche. I have always been fascinated by the pets that share my life, by watching their minds work, by noting their emotions, by feeling the life that pulses through them. So writing about animals just feels right. But I write about animals, also, because animal stories are universal. If I'm writing about a twelve-year-old boy it is assumed that I'm writing for other ten, eleven, twelve-year-old boys. If I'm writing about a cat, a wolf, a bear, a dog, I'm writing for everyone . . . even adults, even myself. Perhaps especially myself.

Q. You are known as a writing teacher as well as a writer. How to you find a balance between teaching and writing?

A. I have taught for many years, though I'm retired from teaching now except for occasional very time-limited stints. My most recent teaching was through the Vermont College of Fine Arts in their MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults program. But I have taken care to make sure my primary time and energy were devoted to my own writing. I made sure I was a writer who teaches, not a teacher who writes.

Q. How has teaching writing impacted your own development as a writer?

A. Being a writing teacher has, of course, sharpened my skills as a critic. You can't say to a developing writer, "Your story doesn't work." You have to tell her what specifically doesn't work and why and then, without intruding, give suggestions about what the next step might be in strengthening that story. Having, again and again, to define with thought and care what is needed in other writers' work brings me back to my own work with deepened insights. Eventually, I teach myself what I'm teaching others, and having said it to others makes it easier to hear for myself. One time my partner, who was not a writer herself but who had heard me speak to writers on a number of occasions, read an early draft of one of my stories and said, "Wouldn't you say . . . to one of your students?" And . . . was exactly what that story needed, so I learned from myself through her.

Q. You've been writing stories for young people for more than forty years, and you've mentioned that you keep playing out some of the same deep themes. How do you manage to keep your work fresh?

A. One of the things that keeps my work fresh is moving between different genres. A picture book requires such different energy than a young novella, and a different rhythm, too. A young novella has a different rhythm and energy than an older novel. Nonfiction is its own experience. Moving between the various demands of the various kinds of work keeps me from ever settling into a rut. When I'm writing a young chapter book, a chapter is about five pages long. It's just a natural shape those younger stories fall into. And I love climbing into a chapter knowing I can, very quickly, climb out again. But then when I turn to an older novel where chapters can be much longer, I love equally settling in and fleshing my world out, stretching. One of my most recent books, a novella called Little Dog, Lost, moves into the territory of fiction in verse, something entirely new for me. I took such pleasure in writing that story because I had to discover how to do what I was doing at every step along the way. Even after more than 80 books published, everything about that story felt fresh because the way I was presenting it was fresh for me.

Q. What is your deepest motivation in writing for children?

A. I entered the field with a single passion ... to be a truth teller. I grew up in at a time when children were routinely lied to, lies of omission--information we were carefully shielded from--as much as overt untruths. And my mother, while certainly well intentioned, was probably better than most both at shielding and at lying to "protect" me. When I grew old enough to understand the ways I'd been lied to, I was furious. And I was also determined not to follow the same path in dealing with children myself, my own children or the ones I wrote for. Children are far less apt to be shielded from basic information these days. In fact, they are bombarded through the media with what may be a too explicit view--certainly too skewed and dark a view--of the world they are entering. But they still need the deep realities of the life that stands before them--the pain of it and the hope--to be interpreted in a straightforward and wise way. That's what my stories attempt to do, to tell the truth as I know it. It's truth with a small t, of course, because it is my truth, not something handed down from on high, but it's the very best of what I have to bring to the page.

Q. Finally, you've been writing and teaching for a long time. You have retired from teaching. Do you expect to retire from writing some day?

A. I hope not. I hope to be able to continue writing as long as my brain still works. It's like breathing. It's not just what I do for a livelihood. It's what I do to live.

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