Interns
When I asked our Intern, Rebecca Sage, why she wanted to donate her time with FWJ, she responded quickly: “I have loved to read as long as I can remember. I begged my mother, perhaps a little too soon, to teach me how to read. I began slow with classics like Make Way for Ducklings and Blueberries for Sal both by Robert McCloskey. By the age of ten I graduated to what is now referred to as 'young adult fiction.' Like many preteen females, Beverly Cleary was my savior. If it were not for characters like Ramona Quimby, Ribsy and Ralph S. Mouse my childhood would not have been so sweet. I began maturing a little too quickly in middle school, when my mother caught me reading Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls, she said something to the effect of “you're too young for that.” In high school I discovered my favorite writer, Emerson. It was after I began reading his work that I realized the love I have for words, and decided that whatever I choose to do with my life, they must be included. I am now pursuing a degree in English literature at North Central College in Naperville, Illinois.”