If, like me, you’re a child of a Certain Decade, there’s a good chance you grew up reading Ann M. Martin’s Baby-Sitters Club series, about a group of thirteen-year-old girls (later joined by some younger girls plus a guy) who start a…actually, the series title is really self-explanatory. Although we were blessed with this delightful series, alas, […]
How many times have you been reading (or rereading. And then rereading again) a book and thought I could totally be best friends with this character!? We’ve all wished we could hang out with our favorites from time to time, but which character would truly be your BFF? We think it depends on the kind […]
In the world of high school, no clique is more feared or glamorized than the Mean Girls. Sometimes they’re beautiful and intimidating, other times they’re downright nasty, and they don’t just exist in the real world. They’ve taken over YA lit, too, where we can safely observe them from a distance, without the risk of our […]
As the younger, more laidback portion of the United States, the West Coast is home to California, Oregon, and Washington—states united by their miles of pacific coastline, proclivity for farming and fishing, and IH-5. As latecomers to the U.S. game, they’ve earned a reputation for a chill sort of vibe. Known for drop-dead gorgeous scenery and […]
Today marks the release of The Wicked Will Rise, book two in Danielle Paige’s dark, awesomely twisted series set in a nightmarish Land of Oz. In book one, modern-day Kansas girl Amy Gumm is carried off to Oz in a twister…but the world she finds isn’t the magical place of storybooks. Dorothy’s become a tyrant, Ozma a shut-in, and Glinda […]