This week’s most exciting releases include a road-trip thriller, the story of a young jinn exploring her powers, and a surreally beautiful exploration of schizophrenia. Here are the books we’re trading all our Pogs for right now.
In the YA community, readers talk a lot about One True Pairings. OTPs. And while all of us certainly swoon and sigh over those perfectly written couples, there’s another true pairing I always keep in mind when snuggling up to read a good read: What snack will pair perfectly with this book? That’s right, I’m […]
Sports and romance might not seem like a natural pairing at first glance, but let’s think about this a little more. The importance of good communication? Check. Bodily contact? Check. A cheering section? If you’ve got the right, supportive friends! Here are eight YA novels that score big, on the field and off.
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, […]
Some great books get nominated for awards, get movie deals, hit bestseller lists, and get so much publicity you can’t swing a stick without hitting a display. Some…don’t. Thanks to some fantastic award picks this year, most notably by the Morris committee (which awards excellence in a debut), this list isn’t quite as long as […]