Queens of Geek

If there’s one thing teens from the ’90s onward understand, it’s the magical power of the internet to connect us, whether via social media like Twitter, Tumblr, and Instagram, or more one-sided communication, like podcasts, vlogs, and blogs. For introverts or kids with no one around them who thinks/looks/loves like they do (or both!), the window […]

Happy Bi Visibility Week! Bisexual visibility is a tough battle on any ground; more often than not, despite being one of the letters in LGBT, bisexuality gets to be anywhere from “a stepping stone” to discarded in favor of “I don’t like labels.” But in YA literature, authors have been fighting like mad to ensure […]

It takes a serious amount of bravery to make the jump from friends to more-than-friends. If things don’t work out, you might lose the other half of all your inside jokes. If they do, you get the comfort of being in a relationship with someone who already gets your weird sense of humor. Or you […]

Welcome to another edition of YAs That Get it Right, which is all about YAs that truly nail an element of the teen experience. This time, we’re talking about an issue that’s close to home for a lot of YA readers: anxiety. People experience anxiety in so many different ways, and no single depiction can […]