Short Hills, NJ resident Ofer Aronskind remembers what it was like to be 12 years old: the challenges of middle school, making new friends, attending summer camp for the first time, having your first crush. By drawing on events from his own life, as well as on those of his three teenage sons, he has been able to vividly recreate some of life’s most memorable experiences in his young-adult novels.
Aronskind’s primary goal was to write books that boys especially would want to read. His writing frequently draws upon his own life experiences, as well as those of his sons. His first two books, Summer Sleep-Away and That Same Summer, are loosely based on adventures and anecdotes from the summer camp that his family operated in The Berkshires of Western Massachusetts.
