Next week, Zeroes, by Scott Westerfeld, Margo Lanagan, and Deborah Biancotti, hits bookstores everywhere. The first in a trilogy that reads like a mashup of X-Men: First Class with season one of Heroes (we’ll just pretend those other seasons don’t exist), it’s a thick book of superpowered excitement that’ll leave readers anxiously awaiting the next installments. It’s the first in […]
It has been an extremely high quality book month, and it’s ending strong. From a bestseller’s sequel to poetic gay YA to ownvoices Native lit to a thriller that’ll knock your socks clean off, this is a pretty cool week in YA and a fabulous way to ring in the end of the school year. […]
Fifteen years ago, Carolyn Mackler’s Printz Award–winning The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things was released, introducing readers to Virginia, a teen dealing with familial expectations, her best friend’s move, and being a fat girl in a world that wants to shame her for it. She works hard to fly under the radar…until her […]
A little over 13 years ago, I joined the angsty ranks of teenagedom. I never had braces, but I was certainly super awkward—and remain so. Ever since, I have found solace in any book about a teenaged boy or girl who’s just trying to make it through life with minimal scarring. Recently, I realized my now […]
