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Melissa Schorr

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Melissa Schorr is the YA author of GOY CRAZY (Hyperion 2006) and IDENTITY CRISIS (forthcoming, Merit Press 2016), and a contributor to the YA anthology DEAR BULLY.

She is currently a contributing writer/editor to the Boston Globe Sunday Magazine. Her freelance work has appeared in numerous publications, including GQ, People, Self, San Francisco magazine, and The Wall Street Journal.

Melissa currently lives in Boston with her husband, her daughters, and her dog, Bailey.

Visit her website at http://www.melissaschorr.com

Find her at Twitter @melissaschorr

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Average rating: 3.52 · 658 ratings · 136 reviews · 3 distinct works
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Goy Crazy

3.50 avg rating — 238 ratings — published 2006 — 7 editions
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Identity Crisis

3.68 avg rating — 123 ratings — published 2015 — 6 editions
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Any teens still reading YA?

So my first review came in from Kirkus, which was very nice, calling it a crowdpleaser and saying it succeeds. But at the end, the author questioned whether real life teens will be "too busy surfing the web to read it."

And with estimates that 55% of YA readers are now adults, we all do have to wonder: are teens still reading YA? And is a big chunk of YA now written at an adult level, with adult r Read more of this blog post »
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“Rachel? my dad prompts.
Do I have to...?"
His stern expression answers my question
Fine. I'm grateful that the Native Americans are finally getting revenge on the white man for destroying their culture, by building megacasinos.”
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