Calling all fans of Heartstopper! Whether you’re just getting to know Nick and Charlie or you’ve been here since the webcomic days, Alice Oseman has taken the world by storm, and we just can’t get enough. From starting as an online Webtoon series to being picked up and published as graphic novels to the blockbuster […]
Heartstopper fans rejoice! The novel that first introduced Nick and Charlie to the world is finally publishing in the United States for the very first time. And for new readers, Alice Oseman’s unflinching debut following Charlie’s older sister, Tori Spring, is a fantastic introduction to the vast (and growing) Heartstopper universe. Oseman’s US editor, David Levithan, knows the ins and outs of these characters and provided a bit of insight into Tori Spring’s struggles and other books that he thinks would resonate with Tori.
With Asexual Awareness Week happening right now and the rise of asexual protagonists in media (looking at you, BoJack Horseman!), it’s refreshing to see that representation extending to YA as well. The below books feature protagonists who identify as asexual, but what’s more important is the books don’t center around that fact, which makes them […]
Meet the Young Adults, the B&N Teen Blog’s swat team of awesome teenaged bloggers. YA literature is a strange and wonderful landscape of books that should be read by everybody, but each month we highlight the perspective of teens reading the best of the best books written for and about them. Check back monthly to see what they’re recommending […]
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 […]