 Meaker said of this approach, "I was a bookworm and a poetry lover.When I think of myself and what I would have liked to have found in books those many years ago, I remember being depressed by all the neatly tied-up, happy-ending stories, the abundance of winners, the themes of winning, solving, finding — when around me it didn't seem that easy.So I write with a different feeling when I write for young adults.