Winner of the 2003 Michael L. Printz Honor for her novel My Heartbeat, author Garret Freymann-Weyr writes about "how and why people make choices." As Freymann-Weyr explained to Authors and Artists for Young Adults (AAYA), "The choices made early are usually made with more care and self-awareness than the ones made later on." The highly acclaimed author of three young adult novels--When I Was Older and The Kings Are Already Here, in addition to Heartbeat--Freymann-Weyr has also written an adult novel titled Pretty Girls. However, the world of young adult fiction particularly interests her. "I write books where, so far, the main characters are fourteen to seventeen. There are some things about that age which are appealing to any writer. A fifteen-year-old girl is able and likely to sound like she's nine and then fifteen and then thirty and then eleven and finally nine again all in...