Review: Dear Martin by Nic Stone
While history textbooks mark the American civil rights movement with dates from half a century ago, all it takes is a glance at today’s…
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Review: Scythe by Neal Shusterman
Neal Shusterman has been one of my favorite YA authors since I was in high school. His Unwind Dystology is a riveting and haunting…
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Review: The Cruel Prince by Holly Black
The Cruel Prince by Holly Black has been at the top of my reading list since I heard about it last summer, so I…
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Help Us Save Lives
For the past two years, The Passed Note has proven itself as a magazine that strives to publish excellent, engaging fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction,…
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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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