Everything, Everything

Nicola Yoon’s Everything, Everything is the kind of book that immediately grabs you with its premise: Madeline is “allergic to the world,” a lifelong sufferer of severe combined immunodeficiency. Living on “SCID Row,” her world is constrained to her doting physician mother and nurse Carla. That is, until Olly, the literal boy next door, reaches out a lifeline […]

Falling into a k-hole on Instagram or Pinterest typically entails scrolling through a million quotes superimposed on beachy scenes, starry skies, or lovely mountain landscapes. Often they’re lines from YA books or lyrics from a favorite song. And sometimes it can be hard to distinguish between the two—is that John Green or John Lennon? Taylor […]

A lot of young adult books deal with families—with the relationships between sisters and brothers and parents and their children. But some stories go even further, delving into the relationships between cousins and stepmoms and long-lost siblings the main character thought she’d never see again (or never knew about in the first place). It seems […]

Sometimes you just need to curl up with a good book and gross-sob your heart out. It’s cathartic. It’s cleansing. And it’s preferable, because your other options include listening to Coldplay’s “Fix You” on a loop or rewatching the first ten minutes of Up over and over again, and I mean jeez. Ease up, Pixar. […]