It’s release day for Rebekah Crane’s POSTCARDS FOR A SONGBIRD! Be sure to pick up this beautiful YA contemporary story about the ache to belong and the joy of feeling understood. Everyone eventually leaves Wren Plumley. First it was her mother, then her best friend, and then her sister. Now […]
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Congratulations to Jessie Hilb whose debut THE CALCULUS OF CHANGE is out today. Run–don’t walk–to your nearest bookseller and pick up a copy. If you love lyrical writing and moving coming-of-age tales, you will love this book. Here’s Jessie talking about her book! Check out her blog and her […]
So I’m almost done reading Ready Player One by Ernest Cline, which is, as I opined on Twitter the other night, absolutely essential reading for a nerd of my age. Simplistically, it’s about a couple of teenagers trying to solve a giant Easter Egg Hunt in a vast virtual reality […]
Maureen Johnson brought my attention to a great post this morning on In The Library With The Lead Pipe by Gretchen Kolderup, a YA librarian, about everything that’s great about the category, and why people should read it. It’s a long post, but well worth your time. I just wanted […]
Yesterday saw two YA authors on NPR debating the issue of whether YA is too dark with the author of several essays in the Wall Street Journal that high-handedly suggested that they are. Over and over over the course of an hour and a half of these debates, I listened […]
Unless you don’t normally listen to the radio, or listen to another station, in which case, DO touch that dial, and tune in to NPR to hear Maureen Johnson today at 11am Eastern debating “Is Young Adult Fiction Too Dark?” You can listen live online, or try to call in […]
There were some fabulous comments on Tuesday’s post about the road to Genericville, and if you haven’t gone through them, I highly recommend you take a look. But I wanted to touch on something that may have gotten lost in the discussion. Namely, that Genericville isn’t just a trap that […]
I think Intern Jenny and I have talked a lot about trends, and how it seems like we don’t ever get one query about a subject, but a deluge. And yet, if the comments on yesterday’s post have taught me anything (besides that you have excellent taste in Buffy episodes), […]
My client Stephanie Perkins is a big romantic softie. Not only did she share of her favorite romantic scenes from some movies and books with her blog readers the other day, but then she posted some of her readers’ favorite moments. It’s all very swoon-worthy, and I suggest you check […]