Formerly titled Girl Gives Birth to Own Prom Date, this companion novel to How I Changed My Life follows Nicole, who plans to shape Chase into the perfect prom escort after she's jilted by her ideal ...

At first glance, Larchmont resident and bestselling author Todd Strasser seems like a regular guy. He’s a father whose favorite pastime is surfing with his kids, and a witty conversationalist with a ...

Kate’s mother is moving out, her father’s latest girlfriend is pregnant and a rival mob family is threatening the “territory” of her father’s crime family, in the first title in Strasser’s (Boot Camp) ...

Prolific YA author Todd Strasser turns to two topics of the moment in his latest novel, The Good War, which looks at the rise of white nationalism through the lens of a middle school’s first foray ...

I n his latest novel, Strasser (Can't Get There from Here) delivers an indictment of boot camps used to control unruly teenagers. Following a middle-of-night abduction, 15-year-old Garrett Durrell ...

For the recently released Summer of ’69 (Candlewick), Todd Strasser mined his adolescent experience to bring the Woodstock era to life. Sarvenaz Tash, who wasn’t yet born when the festival was held, ...

The author explores the psyche of adolescents who use handguns to violent ends, as two 10th-graders hold their classmates hostage. Ages 12-up. (Apr.) ...

Strasser (No Place) again tackles a difficult contemporary issue, focusing on Jake, a young, wounded war hero returning home from an unspecified war “over there” with heavily conflicted feelings. An ...

Does Westchester ever make its way into any of your works? Oh, yes. I’ve set nearly a dozen books in the mythical town of Soundview, which appears to have an uncanny similarity to Larchmont/Mamaroneck ...

In this convincing, crisply written novel, Strasser (Give a Boy a Gun) tackles head-on a very real middle-school predicament—the price one can be tempted to pay for popularity. Referring to herself ...