My latest novel for kids and parents, GROWING UP RITA, is the story of a mother and daughter caught up with the problems of immigration. I write about the world we live in, and the world inside my head. I write about kids who populate the margins of society, who have something big to face in life, who take action on their own behalf, and who are aided along the way by adults who live on the margins themselves. Everything about their lives is determined by adults, often to their detriment. They don't have lobbyists because they don't have money. We pay lip service to the idea that they are the future, but we short change them. Most of all I believe that kids get the short end of the stick. I think love, hope, romance and our imaginations are the best way to do it. I grew up seeing hypocrisy pretty much everywhere I looked.
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