Review: 36 Questions That Changed My Mind About You
I rarely frequent the “Romance” shelves of the Young Adult section of my local bookstore. The pastel, hand-holding covers simply don’t hold my interest,…
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How YA Changed Me
YA literature has been an important part of my teenage life. Fantastical storylines combined with a complex exploration of sometimes overlooked teenage experiences has…
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Review: By a Charm and a Curse // Jaime Questell
Jaime Questell’s debut By a Charm and a Curse is a stunning imagining of life, love, and sacrifice wrapped in the spell-binding world of…
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Winter YA Reads
Because Punxsutawney Phil has predicted six more weeks of winter, that could mean more reasons to stay indoors and read. So if you’re looking…
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Characters Building Character: Reading YA as a Teenager
A moment repeated many times during my teenage years: my flashlight stills over open pages, illuminating their black and white text beneath the canopy…
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Other People’s Words: How YA Helped Me
Some words stay with you. Over the years, you will learn to measure yourself by how they’ve shaped you, how you’ve grown into the…
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Review: Snowbirds by Chrissa Chappell
Chrissa Chappell is a veteran in the world of YA fiction. Her personal website boasts of enough of teen fiction awards, including a Florida…
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Review: Otherworld by Jason Segel and Kristen Miller
In a new series that will intrigue fans of the show Westworld, comes the David-and-Goliath novel,Otherworld, by Jason Segel and Kristin Miller. A boy…
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Our Best YA Books of 2017
YA has always been fertile ground for stories of discovery, of courage, of challenging the status quo–all while being products of their time. That…
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Review: Forest of a Thousand Lanterns
Julie C. Dao’s debut novel, Forest of a Thousand Lanterns, has been on my TBR list since it was released in mid-October. I was…
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