Boys vs. Girls Inspiration

Hello! I’m Jenna and this might be hard to believe but I’ve read pretty much all your books including the Alice series (My Favorite Of All Time!!) and I can honestly say I was never disappointed in any of the endings and I was ecstatic when I read the ending of the Alice Series for so many reasons 🙂 I also really liked the Boys vs. Girls series and I was wondering what inspired you to write that series?

A publisher had asked me to start a new series and I wasn’t sure I wanted to.  I told her I would if I could think of some universal trait among boys and girls.  Later, I was to speak to a large group of kids at an elementary school, and a class was entering the all-purpose room from one door and another  class was coming in from a second door.  All the kids were talking and laughing which didn’t bother me one bit, but it bothered one of the teachers, and he yelled, “If you don’t quiet down right now I’m going to seat you boy-girl-boy-girl,” and the room was instantly quiet.  And I thought, “That’s it!  A universal trait!  The antipathy between boys and girls of a certain age.”  And not much later I wrote the first book of the series, “The Boys Start the War,” followed by “The Girls Get Even.”