Why, you may ask, have I been gobbling up Karen McManus's ONE OF US IS LYING young adult series? When I was a high school English teacher, I used to read a lot of young adult material to cull my classroom library, but I've been retired now for 13 years. However, because I was a high school teacher for 27 years, teenaged characters frequently creep into my own books even though I write for an adult audience. And I can certainly relate to the high school setting of the first book in this trio set in the fictional town of Bayview outside of San Diego. Reading the three books has been like eating popcorn for me. But the main reason I've been reading the series is that I've received this honor: