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Rogue by Lyn Miller-Lachmann: a review and a GIVEAWAY!
Quick: how many books have you read where the main character has autism or autism spectrum disorder? Now: how many of those books were written by an author who openly speaks about their own autism...
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Banned Books Week: an interview with Meg Medina and a GIVEAWAY!
“What kids need and deserve is to feel respected – not just by their classmates, but also by teachers and school leaders who ought to have faith in young people’s ability to read, think, and decide.” –...
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Anne Ursu’s The Real Boy – artwork reveal and SIGNED book give away!
Where to begin? Where even to begin with a book this finely crafted, this breathtakingly realized, this clever, this full of love and aches and metaphors and, yes, magic? (but not the magic you’re...
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Wise Young Fool by Sean Beaudoin – review & a SIGNED GIVEAWAY!
“Give me some genuine emotion. Challenge yourself to be honest instead of merely clever.” I read Wise Young Fool for the first time months and months ago. I have read many and many books since now and...
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Far From You by Tess Sharpe – a review & giveaways!
A few weeks ago there was a longform article in the New York Times about scientific studies being done with the goal of proving that bisexuality exists. I suppose it was interesting enough, reading...
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Stray by Elissa Sussman – a review, an interview and a giveaway!
I think there’s something primal about fairy tale re-tellings. I really do. And I think that they are a staple of YA because of this very thing, because they say to teen readers: you can pull the...
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The Ghosts of Heaven by Marcus Sedgwick – an interview & a giveaway!
I honestly can’t think of anyone in YA who does what Marcus Sedgwick does. Perhaps this is why I am so entranced by everything he’s ever written. Sedgwick won the Printz Award last year (that is the...
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The Amazing Age of John Roy Lynch by Chris Barton, illustrated by Don Tate –...
What a lovely marvel this book is. This is a picture book biography of John Roy Lynch, who was freed from slavery at 16 and within ten years was elected to the United States Congress. The book...
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LOCK & MORI – Interview & Giveaway
I’m finally back from vacation and back on track now that school has started. PHEW is there any rush like the end of summer programs meeting the beginning of the school year? After all the delays and...
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WHEN AIDAN BECAME A BROTHER, hooray!!
There are tons of books I can’t wait to see in 2019. Every year, I love the steps publishing, especially small and independent publishers, take towards being more reflective of the reality of the...
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