This Black History Month, pick up one of these eight must-read books that will have you rethinking the narrative. Titles from bright new voices like Jason Reynolds and Renée Watson mix with must-reads from pioneers like Jacqueline Woodson, Kwame Alexander, and Walter Dean Myers to form a new library of soon-to-be classics. And these are […]
We’re always asking authors about their inspirations, stories of their first disastrous book tours or that time they said something they shouldn’t on Twitter. But as it turns out, there are other people involved in moving a book from a Word document to pile of bound paper in your hands. YA editors play a pivotal […]
Here are my reasons I’ve reread Woodson’s If You Come Softly so many times: 1. Because the writing is so beautiful, lyrical, sparse, and heartbreaking! You can almost touch every sentence on the page. For example, here’s how Chapter One begins: “Jeremiah was black. He could feel it. The way the sun pressed down hard and […]