There’s a great recommendation for Strange Times in the current issue of Canadian Bookseller magazine in an article called “Strong heroes for young adults”:

This dragster-riding, zine-making sleuth is the ultimate answer to the gaggle of gossip girl titles that dominate YA shelves.

Also, I’m reading at a YWCA event that’s part of their teen-oriented Week Without Violence initiative. It’s called Bully 2 U and I’ll be joined by Belladonna, (Off my Chest), Nadja Halilbegovich (My Childhood Under Fire: A Sarajevo Diary), Shyam Selvadurai (Swimming in the Monsoon Sea), Teresa Toten (Me and the Blondes) and Eric Walters (Shattered).

Details:
Wednesday October 18, 2006. 1pm to 3pm
St. Lawrence Centre- Jane Mallet Theatre (Toronto)