Fiction teaches us lots of things we might never need to use: how to win the Hunger Games, how to react upon learning you’re a wizard, what to do if a werewolf falls in love with you. But it also gives us life lessons we actually need, wrapped in narratives we can’t stop reading: how to empathize […]
We know, we know. You’re so over love triangles and instalove. But YA is about so much more than romance. From a song that changes everything to reclaiming your confidence (and that tiara!) to coming back from the brink of death, these nine awesome YA reads are about teens grasping for something more and finding […]
Some great books get nominated for awards, get movie deals, hit bestseller lists, and get so much publicity you can’t swing a stick without hitting a display. Some…don’t. Thanks to some fantastic award picks this year, most notably by the Morris committee (which awards excellence in a debut), this list isn’t quite as long as […]
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 […]
One of the best things about reading as a kid is the first time you see yourself in a book, read a character who feels and looks and sounds so much like you that it’s as if the author liquefied your soul and used it as ink. But the lack of diversity long suffered by […]