TIME Magazine Top 10 YA of 2015

TIME Magazine has chosen its Top 10 YA/Children’s Books of the Year, and All the Bright Places is number 3, right behind my lovely friend Drew Daywalt and the terrific Rainbow Rowell.

I am trying to breathe it all in, but everything that’s happening– and that has happened– this year seems unreal. It’s weeks like these that make me especially miss my mom. No one believed in me more or would have been prouder.