Award-winning Canadian author Allan Stratton discusses his acclaimed novels for young adults. His novel Life, Above All, recently adapted for the screen, won the Prix François Chalais at its Cannes premiere and was South Africa’s nomination for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2011 Oscars. Set against the AIDS pandemic, Life, Above All, is not a book about a virus, but a book about the impact of a virus on universal themes central to the human heart: the love between parents and children, the loyalty of friends, the fear of abandonment, the terror of stigma, the pain of bereavement, and the courage to live with truth. His most recent novel Borderline is an explosive thriller about a funny, gutsy Muslim-American teen whose family becomes the focus of an international terrorist investigation