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RANDI HACKER

Randi Hacker, author and 1950s' Childhood Survivor, has done time as a personal assistant to the stars, publisher, educator, librarian, author and video store clerk. Back in the 20th Century, she worked as the editor of The Electric Company Magazine published by Children’s Television Workshop. Before completing an MA in Teaching English as a Second Language from St. Michael’s College in Winooski, Vermont, she dropped out of quite a number of well-respected graduate schools including the University of Michigan, UCLA and Columbia University. Her Vermont-based sitcom “Windy Acres” was broadcast on Vermont Public Television and won a Boston/New England Emmy for Outstanding Entertainment Program. Her young adult novel, Life as I Knew It (Simon & Schuster, 2006) was chosen as one of the New York Public Library’s Books for the Teen Age 2007. She is currently at work on her second YA novel, “Home Page Temporarily Disabled.” She and her daughter live in Lawrence, Kansas.

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Life As I Knew It
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My name is Angelina Rossini. A little about me:

I am sixteen years old.
I live in Blodgett, Vermont. Population: 854.
Most of my life's been pretty normal for a twenty-first-century American teen.

THAT SAID:

I'm in love with my best friend who, um, recently came out.
I sometimes get the sense that my mother wishes I hadn't been born.
I maintain a low level of hostility with at least one of my classmates.

I could deal, though. Mainly because my dad was around, and he was my sun. Our sun, really: my mom's, my half-sister's, and mine. My dad kept us all in place, orbiting around him.

But then the sun, well...it went out. Click.

That was the end of Life As I Knew It -- and the beginning of something a lot different.