#Laurie Halse Anderson

High School Reading, 2.0

It’s time to dust off the books! Classics are classic for a reason, but it doesn’t mean they have to ...

15 years of SPEAK: An Interview with Laurie Halse Anderson

It’s fifteen years since Laurie Halse Anderson’s young adult novel Speak was first published. Speak is an enduring novel that has a significant place ...

Beyond the Bestsellers: So You’ve Read SPEAK by Laurie Halse Anderson

  For this month’s edition of “Beyond the Bestsellers,” I’m going to do something a little bit different. This series ...

Black History in YA Fiction: A Time Line

It’s black history month, and rather than offer up a straightforward book list of young adult titles that highlight aspects ...

Five Books to Watch for in January

New year, new reading resolutions, new additions to the TBR list.  Hope you’ve finished reading some of those holiday gifts ...

2014 YA Fiction Preview: 60 Titles for Your January – June Radar

Fan of young adult fiction or want to get started reading YA fiction? Here’s a roundup of 60 titles to ...

Sex in YA Fiction, or “Fifty Shades for Kids”

Sex in YA Fiction

What Are Grown-Ups Afraid of in YA Books?

Many times, it’s big-name publications that get young adult literature all wrong. Their “experts” call anything published for the under-18 ...

SPEAK and Steubenville: Can YA Help?

Books change lives! Or so we always say. Yet this consensus is typically drawn from personal experience alone. We know ...

Why YA Lit Matters to Everyone

Young adult literature gets a bad rap because of the immense, insane popularity of certain titles that book snobs around ...