This is me, dressed up for the Children’s Caribana parade one year in Parkdale:

A few Strange Times at Western High-related items have appeared online recently:

• There’s an excerpt running on the rabble.ca Book Lounge, for its Halloween-related edition focusing on alternative mysteries.
• A teen librarian at the Richmond B.C. library system selected it as Book of the Month.
• The folks at Young People’s Press have been kind enough to post a promotional piece about the book, written by Annick Press’ marketing manager.

Meriting its own paragraph is a review that’s in CM Magazine:

Emily Pohl-Weary is in the process of creating a cultural phenomenon for today’s teen girl readers. Her heroine, Natalie Fuentes, is smart, feisty, and unafraid to be an original in a school dominated by skinny blonds in miniskirts.

A couple days ago, I did an interview with Book TV about Superman’s enduring popularity and though I don’t find the Man of Steel all that interesting (too goody goody), it made me remember that I was obsessed with Supergirl when I was young.

There was this one story arc I particularly loved, in which she battles like a thousand mini clones of herself. Does anyone else think that a superheroine fighting herself HAS to be a metaphor for the fact that our most difficult fight is the one against our own demons?