The Dream Keepers
Our guest today is Linda Keen from Sacramento, CA. She is the author of The Dream Keepers , a young adult novel honoring diversity, friendship, and self-knowledge. We have conducted an interview with her. Why did you choose to write your Young Adult (YA) novel honoring the themes of diversity, friendship and self-knowledge? When I was a school counselor for foster youth in the first years of the new millennium, I had an enormous urge to write a fictional story inspired by my students. As I had had other books published, I began thinking about what things I might want to tell. At this same time, I had a young teenager come visit me at my office. She was a tall, good-natured young African American named Star. At the end of that day, as I stood at my car getting ready to leave, I had a vision of writing about a foster student named Star. I would write about her life and challenges, and, in my mind, she looked like my own student, and that is when one of the most important chara...