Pride Month is a great time to put the focus on queer YA—specifically, some of the incredible intersectional queer books YA has been blessed with, given to us by indigenous authors and authors of color. We’ve got a stack you can read now, and another half dozen you can preorder!
Meet the Young Adults, the B&N Teen Blog’s swat team of awesome teenaged bloggers. YA literature is a strange and wonderful landscape of books that should be read by everybody, but each month we highlight the perspective of teens reading the best of the best books written for and about them. Check back monthly to see what they’re recommending […]
Summer’s end is nigh, and with it go the big Hollywood blockbusters, those delicious “why didn’t I think of that” high-concept stories we all know and love. But you don’t have to wait till next summer for fun, fantastic, and decidedly high-concept tales. You don’t even have to wait till they’re on demand. These amazing […]
Happy Bi Visibility Week! Bisexual visibility is a tough battle on any ground; more often than not, despite being one of the letters in LGBT, bisexuality gets to be anywhere from “a stepping stone” to discarded in favor of “I don’t like labels.” But in YA literature, authors have been fighting like mad to ensure […]