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An Open Letter to Those Who Give Kids Banned Books

Teachers, librarians, and other adults who share tough books with teens change their lives in ways both seen and not seen.

A Conversation About Girls’ Stories with Laurie Halse Anderson and Courtney Summers

YA authors Laurie Halse Anderson and Courtney Summers Interview about sexual assault, feminism, girls' stories, and YA Fiction

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 ...

Fresh Ink: March 4, 2014

  HARDCOVER RELEASES Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi (Riverhead Hardcover) In the winter of 1953, Boy Novak arrives by ...

Fresh Ink: December 10, 2013

HARDCOVER RELEASES The Housemaid’s Daughter by Barbara Mutch (St. Martin’s Press)  When Cathleen Harrington leaves her home in Ireland in ...

Fresh Ink: August 20, 2013

HARDBACK RELEASES The Girl You Left Behind by JoJo Moyes (Pamela Dorman Books) France, 1916:  Artist Edouard Lefevre leaves his young wife, ...

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 ...

In Defence of Darkness

In honour of Banned Books Week last week, I’ve been reading Laurie Halse Anderson’s young adult novel Speak.  I’m an ...