‘When the Ground is Hard’
In this Teen Novel, Swaziland in the 1960s Feels a Lot Like America Today
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Author: Sharyn Vane
Like a Bad Neighbor
‘Lock Every Door’: the NYC Gig Economy Turns Deadly
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‘Patron Saints Of Nothing’
A Filipino-American Teen Immersed in Duterte’s Drug Crackdown
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‘Let Me Hear A Rhyme’
Remembering Non-Hipster Brooklyn in the 90s, and a Hip-Hop Mystery
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‘Girl Gone Viral’
Ready Player Whatever in a Young-Adult VR Dystopia
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The Devil Went Up to Minnesota
In Teen Horror Novel ‘Last Things,’ the Crossroads Reinvented
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‘Barely Missing Everything’
An Affecting Young-Adult Debut About the Lives of Mexican-American Teens in El Paso
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Normal Kid, Hooked on Oxy
‘Heroine,’ a Realistic Novel About a High-Performing Student Athlete With an Opioid Habit
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You’re Supposed to be Uncomfortable
The Harsh Truths and Hopeful Teens of A.S. King’s ‘Dig’
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‘We Set The Dark On Fire’
It Was Always Burning, Since the World’s Been Turning
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‘The Field Guide To The North American Teenager’
A Canadian Hockey Kid, Trapped in Texas
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‘Someday We Will Fly’, by Rachel DeWoskin
A Meaningful and Sadly-Relevant Story of the Jews Who Escaped to Shanghai During WWII
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Apocalypse Zhao
Pulling ‘Blood Heir’ Before Publication Just Might be OK
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Survivors’ Guilt 101
Teen Novel Explores the Aftermath of an Explosion
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What’s Eating Those Small-Town Teens?
In ‘Sawkill Girls’, Terror is Hungry
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