{"product_id":"lisa-bright-and-dark-isbn-9780451166845","title":"Lisa, Bright and Dark","description":"Hailed as a \"work of art\" by the \u003cb\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/b\u003e, this bestselling classic brings a deft touch and understanding spirit to the story of a teenage girl's descent into madness-and the three friends who are determined to walk with her where adults fear to tread.\"I always wanted to be a writer.  I started writing early, and badly, sending off short stories to national magazines when I was ten or eleven.  They were all returned.\u003cp\u003e\"But I kept at it.  All through high school and college.  Everything I sent out came back.  Thanks but no thanks.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I moved to New York and worked in a publishing house.  I kept writing.  In fact, I was fired from my first job for spending more time on my own projects than on the publishing house's.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I wrote on.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In 1968, an editor from a small California publishing house and I hadlunch.  She gave me an outline for a story she thought I could write well. I knew immediately I had to try.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"But what I wanted to do was write a short book, full of emotion and detail and excitement, for readers of all ages.  I didn't know that \u003cb\u003eEdgar Allan\u003c\/b\u003e would be regarded as a children's book.\"It was.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"And when it was, everything fell into place.  The minute \u003cb\u003eEdgar Allan\u003c\/b\u003e was launched successfully, I sat down to write Lisa, Bright And Dark.  It, too, was a success so there was no turning back.Although I do write books for adults, the ideas that stimulate me always seem to come to me in the form of a story for young readers.  I get ideas from everywhere: from the newspapers, from radio, from lunches and talks I have with friends.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Right now, if I never get another idea, I have more story lines to work on than my lifetime probably permits.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBoth \u003cb\u003eEdgar Allan\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eLisa, Bright And Dark\u003c\/b\u003e, were selected as among the Best Books of the Year by the New York Times.  \u003cb\u003eLisa, Bright And Dark\u003c\/b\u003e was filmed for television, and aired as a Hallmark Hall of Fame on NBC-TV.  Mr. Neufeld's other books have as recently as this spring (2000) been cited as among the best of last year's Young Adult titles by the New York Public Library and YASLA.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berkley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301566140645,"sku":"NP9780451166845","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780451166845.jpg?v=1767731502","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/lisa-bright-and-dark-isbn-9780451166845","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}