#robert cormier

How Classic YA Author Robert Cormier Baffled a Classroom of College Students

How reading Robert Cormier's 1979 novel After the First Death showed her that young adult fiction can be as bewildering and complex as anything else she studied in college.

The Value of Young Reading Experiences

Some of the most pivotal things we ever learn come from the books we read when we are young. In ...

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 ...