Tag: young adult novels
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Famous ‘Holes’ author meant to be a lawyer — but then he wrote his classic kids’ book
[ad_1] Louis Sachar really intended to be a lawyer. But, in between starting law school at the Hastings College of Law in 1977 and graduating in 1980, he published his first book, “Sideways Stories from Wayside School.” The zany, often surreal compendium of classroom antics went on to become a young adult classic, spawning a…
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How crying TikToks made Colleen Hoover a millionaire author
[ad_1] When Brittni Lourenco, 31, read the four harrowing words, “it ends with us,” at the end of Colleen Hoover’s blockbuster novel of the same name last year, she cried like a baby. Then, the clinical mental health counselor, from Connecticut, took a teary selfie and posted it to her Instagram story. “It just pulled on…