7 Banned Books That Should Be Required Reading
Every year the Office for Intellectual Freedom, a branch of the American Library Association dedicated to fighting censorship, compiles a…
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Happy Graduation! Love, YA Books
Graduation, whether you’re exiting high school, college, graduate school, or even kindergarten, can be an emotionally confusing time. Moving forward,…
10 of the Truest YA Quotes About Heartache
Hearts can break over so many things, it makes them seem awfully fragile. They can break over losing love, or…
10 of the Truest YA Quotes About the Future
Books are time machines. They can show us the past, they can paint potential futures. A book from our childhood…
10 Swoonworthy YA Quotes for Pride Month
Kick off your summer reading during Pride Month with some of the swooniest, most gorgeous, heart-in-your-chest romantic queer YA books!…
6 Same-Sex Couples I Will Never Stop Shipping
Living life as a hardcore shipper is full of blessings and disappointments. The author lords giveth, the author lords ignoreth.…
8 Reasons to Read (or Reread) His Dark Materials before The Book of Dust Arrives
When it was announced that Philip Pullman was finally releasing the long awaited The Book of Dust, the first volume…
Valentine Pickup Lines From Your Favorite YA Hotties
I’ve spent my life dreaming about what I would say if I met Gilbert Blythe (From Anne of Green Gables, you…
YA-Inspired Halloween Costumes You Can Make with 4 Items or Less
I usually start planning my Halloween costume around August. This gives me enough time to sew myself Brienne of Tarth’s…
What to Read Next Based on Your Favorite Dearly Departed TV Show
There’s so much amazing TV on the air right now you’d think the sting of a cancelled show would have…
5 Reasons to Read Corinne Duyvis’s On the Edge of Gone
Hey, do you like mind-puzzling sci-fi with an organically diverse cast and on the edge of your seat tension? Yeah,…
8 Comic Books and Graphic Novels Every YA Fan Should Read
I used to spend a few weeks every summer with my cousins in Massachusetts, who had both a library full…
A Tarot Reading for the Characters of the Raven Cycle
WARNING: RAVEN CYCLE SPOILERS AHEAD! The Raven Cycle, the epic quartet by Maggie Stiefvater, is steeped in fortune telling and prophecy…
What to Read Next Based on Your Favorite Narnia Book
I have never had a problematic fave as beloved or as problematic as C.S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia. Growing up…
7 Fantasy Books That Are as Funny as They Are Magical
There’s a scene in Game of Thrones (I’m talking the television show), an unrelentingly dark fantasy epic, in which a…