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These titles have been suggested by the team or through the title suggestion form, read by multiple team members, and ...
Artist Jenna has never felt she measures up to her cousin Jessica, who seems to not only excel in every subject their parents care about, but also makes popularity and beauty appear effortless. After ...
“Defending stories is how we defend the capacity of our communities to rebuild toward something else.” If you are a YA or MG author, or represent one, who would like to participate in our banned books ...
The Lone Star Reading List is designed for students in grades 6-8 to encourage reading and exploring different genres. The list of up to 30 books is curated each year by a committee of Texas public ...
Clint Tyree, aka “Skink,” has become as much a part of the Florida landscape as mouse ears, thanks to his featured role in seven Carl Hiaasen books. Here, we first meet Skink when a teen named Richard ...
I recently read The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender by Leslye Walton (2015 Morris Award Finalist), after having had the ARC on my shelf for months (I’m sorry!) and being begged to by a ...
Please describe your teenage self. I was a misfit, but I think most teenagers feel that way. I don’t care if you were a popular jock or the kid who spent his lunch hours in a stairwell reading a book, ...