So many of today’s YA books have the words ‘The First (or second or 254th) in the Deadly ( Endless Pain,Bad Thing, Dramamine) Trilogy (Cycle, Saga, Series, Running Joke), that sites like Goodreads now refer to the books that don’t as ‘Stand-alones.’ In my day we called them ‘Books.’

The city of the day is Fairbanks, AK. And a warm welcome to Sri Lanka (I’m not making that up).