Our appetite for her work was insatiable after that. We fell madly in love with her novel The Sky is Falling, and then the next two novels making the Guests of War Trilogy– Looking At The Moonand The Lights Go On Again. I can’t recall – perhaps Brigitte can – how we first encountered Pearson, now a celebrated Canadian author, but I think it was at our school library, probably around grade 4, in 1998. We were always reading and swapping novels, but out of all the authors we came across, we had a clear childhood favourite: Kit Pearson. As I mentioned, one of our common interests has always been books. I’m sure the reason we’ve stayed friends for 20 years is because we have so much in common. We basically had an exclusive club just for the two of us – Bubbles and Jewels, as we dubbed ourselves. We wrote so much that we eventually catalogued everything into spiral-bound books (which we kept, of course). We would write constantly, on any subject – boys we liked, our frienemies, fan fiction, news articles, or our own creative short stories. Right through elementary school, we would spends hours upon hours reading novels, discussing what we’d read, and writing.
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