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Ashley I wrote WHAT CAN'T WAIT because my high school students in Houston told me that there was a book they wanted to read but couldn’t find. Brace yourselv…moreI wrote WHAT CAN'T WAIT because my high school students in Houston told me that there was a book they wanted to read but couldn’t find. Brace yourselves for the shock of the century: the book they wanted to read was one about them, about their world, about their challenges, about their hopes. WHAT CAN'T WAIT is stuffed full of my students’ stories, and it deals with a concern that was particularly salient to them: how does a driven teen—confronted with the daily expectation to drop everything and help out at home—find her or his own path?

I don’t write for my agent or my editor. I write for my students. I write because Rey Mejia told me to keep it real. I write because I want Diana Alvarez to know that she’s not alone with a senior year that would break a lesser woman. I write because I want Brianda Morales to see how college is for her. I write because I want my students to find books that resonate with their experiences, books that honor their particular challenges, books that remind them that they can chart their own path, books that don’t pretend that life offers easy answers.

(Want to know more? I talked about this over at DiversityinYA: http://www.diversityinya.com/2011/03/...)(less)

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Is this as dark, depressing, and violent as Out of Darkness?

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