14 New YA Romances Perfect for Your Summer Beach Bag
One of my favorite things about summer is that it tends to be a glorious season for YA romances, and…
One of my favorite things about summer is that it tends to be a glorious season for YA romances, and…
Thriller authors don’t have a whole lot of time to hook you. If you don’t believe they can spin your…
Everyone has those books from childhood that deeply influenced them, whether classics or graphic novels or, for modern teens, hopefully…
This post originally ran on B&N Reads. The subjects of combat ethics, PTSD, and sexual identity in the military might…
Contemporary YA lit all falls on a spectrum, from the lightest of uplifting wish fulfillment to the darkest of the…
It’s a dark reality of the world that no one waits until you’re “old enough” to deal with trauma, and…
Con artists, sociopaths, revenge junkies…there’s nothing like following the twisted exploits of a great thriller, and it’s all the more…
Mother-teen relationships are complicated enough in young adult lit, but perhaps even more frequently tenuous—if it exists at all—is the…