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Up Close and Personal with Pretty Girl-13 Author, Liz Coley by Kim Briggs

Chilling right?!?! And here is the wonderful, amazing, and brilliant author who brought Pretty Girl-13 to life, Liz Coley.   Liz, what made you decide to write Pretty Girl-13 ? I call it the collision of a title, a character, and a question. The first element was the character. Ever since I found out that a person I thought I knew well was a reintegrated personality, I had the goal of writing a story featuring a protagonist with dissociative identity disorder. Second was the question. I read a lot. Among the articles floating around in my brain was one from 2006 about new techniques in neurobiology whereby individual neurons could be modified with light sensitive switches to turn them on and off. I also read about the military attempting to modify combat memories to treat post-traumatic stress. And finally, I read about scientists zeroing in on the precise locations of memories in our brains. All of which led to the question—if you had the option to remember or ...

YA Recommendations

So you’re ready to jump into the fresh and exciting world of YA books? Well, I’ve got some favorites for you. This list is by no means exclusive or complete. It will grow as long as there are new YA books going out into the world, so like forever… Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian             A protag we can all learn from. Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak, Wintergirls             Rape. Eating Disorder. Finding your voice. And watching it disappear. Jay Asher, 13 Reasons Why             Why would someone end it all? Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower             Life on the outside looking in. Liz Coley, Pretty Girl 13             Will haun...