A guest post for SLJ Teen Librarian Toolbox

Hey there! I wrote a fun guest post for SLJ Teen Librarian Toolbox recently called “My Mother’s Yearbook and Other Mysteries,” all about how scouring my mom’s yearbooks as a child helped turn me into a writer—and specifically, led me to write Rewind. Here’s a snippet:

One of my favorite lazy-day activities as a middle schooler in the 1990s was to scour the pages of my mom’s high school yearbooks. She’d graduated in 1969, a time when—at least in La Crescenta, California—every high school boy posed for yearbook photos in a jacket and tie, and every girl in pearls. It was a far cry from the stirrup-foot leggings and oversized sweaters I was used to rocking day to day, and I found every page fascinating. The cheerleaders wore wool skirts down to their knees. There was nary a girl to be found in the A/V club—only skinny young men with thick-rimmed glasses. I used to quiz my mother on every autograph from every friend who’d written her a message. What, exactly, had happened in French class that was so hilarious? Did she really not remember Pam, who’d declared my mother “her dearest friend”?

You can check out the full article here.

Happy reading!

♥ Lisa

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