Grrl power! Think it’s a 90s thing? All over music and media, awesome and empowered is making a comeback in a major way. But if you’ve been reading YA, you know it never went out of style. Armed with guitars and plenty of attitude, these kickass teens always knew how much power lays in the thrum […]
One of the best parts of my adolescence was finally discovering music—not the Simon & Garfunkel my dad played for me (though I love them too), or the Michael Jackson CD I thought was really badass (it was), but my own personal taste. High school for me was Nirvana, Offspring, Rage Against the Machine, Dispatch, […]
Some people are fantasy fanatics, some people swear by sci-fi, and some people find heaven in historical, but personally, I’m cuckoo for contemporary and all of its subgenres, from thrillers to coming of age to straight-up romance. If you’ve already devoured the contemps I was most excited about in the first half of the year, good […]