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Today on the B&N Kids blog, authors extraordinaire Ally Condie and Brendan Reichs–the amazing team behind the new middle grade…
Today on the B&N Kids blog, authors extraordinaire Ally Condie and Brendan Reichs–the amazing team behind the new middle grade…
If you’re a Jenny Han fan—and who isn’t—you’ve been waiting with bated breath for her New York Times bestselling romance…
Mark Oshiro’s much-hyped Anger Is A Gift is an intricately built but deceptively straightforward addition to the canon of novels…
School’s not out for summer just yet, but that doesn’t mean we can’t start dreaming about those life-changing (or, at…
It’s that time again. Spring has sprung, love is in the air, and finally—finally!—publishing has started featuring kids of color…
The biggest debut of the year? Without a doubt, it’s Tomi Adeyemi’s Children of Blood And Bone, a West African–inspired…
The first time then newbie writer (and my coauthor!) Dhonielle Clayton met author Scott Westerfeld, she blushed and swooned, fanning…
When I was a teenager, one of the lines my mom—an immigrant, a doctor, an entrepreneur, a woman who balanced…
When I was a kid, I never saw myself on the page. Like never. Occasionally, there’d be a brown person…
Today we welcome New York Times bestselling author Neal Shusterman to the blog. Thunderhead, the follow-up to his stellar, Printz…
The B&N Teen blog welcomes author Natalie C. Parker to the blog this week to talk triangle, twisty, sticky and swoonworthy! The…
We all have a lot to be grateful for in our lives. But writers (and readers, to be honest), in…
One of the most fascinating things about writing (and reading!) fiction is where the stories come from—the genesis of the…
Trying your hand at NaNoWriMo this year? Whether it’s your first year or your 18th (yes, NaNoWriMo has been around that long!),…
Kerri Maniscalco’s debut, Stalking Jack the Ripper, quickly landed the writer on the New York Times bestseller list—a rare feat for a first-time author,…
One of my favorite new writers is Amanda Lovelace, whose stunning debut book of poetry—yes, poetry!—the princess saves herself in…
Let’s face it: while there’s some truly original, astounding work being done in the YA category, it is sometimes, occasionally,…
This week marks the release of the stunning Forest of a Thousand Lanterns, the debut fantasy from author Julie C. Dao. The book is…
Samantha Mabry topped TBR lists last year with her stunning debut A Fierce and Subtle Poison, a moody, atmospheric work of…
As far as lists go, the 2017 long list for the National Book Awards in the young people’s literature category is pretty…