While this book is marketed as an adult title, it holds strong teen appeal with a relatable main character who is struggling ...

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Any young people who are interested in the history of the Civil Rights movement or the life of Malcolm X will be engaged by ...

There is laugh-out-loud humor, and moments where teens will relate to Sara Lin’s cringe-worthy, yet honest behavior ...

Was it a mass suicide, a massacre or mass murder, or some combination? Death in the Jungle traces the threads leading to this event, from defining what a cult is to the childhood of the Peoples Temple ...

Crawford “Craw” Cope lives in constant anger. He’s currently serving community service for letting his anger get the best of him and won’t say exactly what happened or how his father ended up with a ...

They might have been friends in a past life, but in this life, Juliette and Abram don’t speak to each other. How can they? Juliette’s mother was having an affair with Abram’s father, culminating in a ...

Millie is at another of Honeywell High School’s boring football games. The football coach, “Hollerin’ Hank” Kildare, was screaming so loud that his neck veins stood out and spittle flew at the ...

In my reading of many other books on the same topic, I’ve learned that the vocabulary used to describe this event holds a great deal of weight. The official term most of us learn in history class, ...

YA Lit Symposium: Using Multicultural YA Literature to Examine Racism in the Lives of Teens of Color For my last session on Saturday afternoon of YALSA’s 2014 Young Adult Literature Symposium, I had ...

Did you have a fun Valentine’s Day? Our poll last week was all about declarations of love in YA lit, and we asked you to choose your favorite. The top pick by far, with 54% of the vote, was from The ...