The Summer of Chasing Mermaids

Summer isn’t just about Choco Tacos and weird tanlines, it’s about racing through summer releases like it’s your job, and business is good. Here are 40 June through August YA books I can’t wait to get my hands on, or have already inhaled like so many Choco Tacos. Get them out of this internet list and […]

A work of fiction must contain 1) two women, 2) who talk to each other, 3) about something other than a man in order to pass the Bechdel Test, recently renamed the Bechdel-Wallace Test, for its creators Alison Bechdel and Liz Wallace. The test has become a basic feminist standard, but passing it in a […]

Oh man, who doesn’t love the whole rich boy/poor girl (or vice versa!) romance trope? From Cinderella to Pretty In Pink to Pretty Woman to Titanic, we swoon at the meet-cutes, we angst over differences and circumstance, we fret over power dynamics, and despite it all, we root for our lovebirds to overcome the seemingly […]

The holiday season is a tough, pressure-filled time for all, because how on earth do you find that perfect gift for every loved one? And by “perfect gift,” I obviously mean “perfect book,” because I’m not a monster. The choice is hard, so rather than make it myself, I tortured 15 fabulous YA authors with the question: […]