For the YA Voices feature, young adult authors, in their own voices and words, share what’s on their minds and in their hearts related to young adults and the power of YA novels. This month, New York Times bestselling author Lynda Mullaly Hunt explores the many specific ways that we, as teachers, can impact the lives and futures of children and the importance of seeing the child before the student. She also discusses the specific teachers who changed her life as a kid and how one of them became the inspiration for her second novel, Fish in a Tree.