Quill and Quire

Children and YA Fiction

By Trina St. Jean

When we meet 15-year-old farm girl Jessica Grenier, she’s just come out of an 11-day coma (which she dubs the Big Sleep) after being charged by one of the family’s domesticated bison bulls. Suffering from ... Read More »

May 26, 2015 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

By Sharon Jennings

As a character, the foster child has powerful potential in fiction, combining 19th-century orphan tropes with contemporary neglected-child realism. Notable foster children in books include the iconic Galadriel in Katherine Paterson’s The Great Gilly Hopkins ... Read More »

April 16, 2015 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction