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Shadow & Bone

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‘Shadow & Bone’: Damsels Who Rescue Themselves

April 28, 2021April 28, 2021 Paula Shaffer 0 Comments Leigh Bardugo, Shadow & Bone

Netflix series turns fantasy and young-adult tropes on their heads

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Battle Over School Reading Lists Continues in Suburban Austin

April 27, 2021April 30, 2021 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments Carmen Maria Machado, In The Dream House, Jacqueline Woodson, Kiss Number 8, Laurie Halse Anderson, Leander ISD, Margaret Atwood, PEN America, Shirley Jackson, The Handmaid's Tale, The Lottery, V is for Vendetta, Y: The Last Man

PEN America joins fight after Leander ISD “pauses” book recommendations

Pilkey

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Dav Pilkey Pulls Book Because of Racial Stereotypes

March 30, 2021April 6, 2021 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments Captain Underpants, Dav Pilkey, Ook and Gluk, Scholastic

‘Kung-Fu Cavemen’ are no more

Beverly Cleary

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America Mourns Beverly Cleary

March 28, 2021March 30, 2021 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments Beverly Cleary, Faith Salie, Jenny Han, Judy Blume, Ramona Quimby, Reese Witherspoon, Viola Davis

Tributes pour in for beloved children’s author, who passed away last week at 104

Women's History

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The Best Young Adult Nonfiction for Women’s History Month

March 2, 2021March 9, 2021 Lily Moayeri 1 Comment Alice Paul, Ann Angel, Becoming, Charles and Emma, Claudette Colvin, Deborah Heiligman, Deborah Kops, Hidden Figures, I Am Malala, Irène Curie, Janis Joplin, Lise Meitner, Lita Judge, Malala Yousafzai, Margot Lee Shetterly, Mary's Monster, Michelle Obama, Phillip M. Hoose, Radioactive!, Rebecca Skloot, Sally Ride, Sonia Sotomayor, Tam O’Shaughnessy, The Beloved World of Sonia Sotomayor, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Twice Toward Justice, Winifred Conkling

From scientists to activists to singers, these women changed the world

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An Exciting Year For Black Young Adult Authors

February 18, 2021March 3, 2021 Lily Moayeri 0 Comments Camryn Garrett, Debbie Rigaud, Fast Pitch, Ilyas'a Shabazz, Instructions for Dancing, Jay Coles, Leah Johnson, Love is a Revolution, Muted, nic stone, Nicola Yoon, Off the Record, Renee Watson, Rise to the Sun, Sharon Flake, Simone Breaks All The Rules, Tami Charles, The Awakening of Malcolm X, The Life I'm In, The Skin I'm In, Things We Couldn't Say, Tiffany Jackson

Great new narratives from returning favorites

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Ten Great Young-Adult Fiction Debuts for the Next Two Months

February 8, 2021February 10, 2021 Lily Moayeri 0 Comments A Pho Love Story, Adrienne Tooley, Amelia Unabridged, American Betiya, Anuradha D. Rajurkar, Ashley Schumacher, Bethany Mangle, Denny S. Bryce, Hot British Boyfriend, Karen Bischer, Kristy Boyce, Loan Le, Louise Willingham, Monica Gomez-Hira, Not Quite Out, Once Upon a Quinceañera, Prepped, The Secret Recipe for Moving On, weet and Bitter Magic, Wild Women and the Blues

Across genres and cultures, publishing’s hottest sector continues to deliver

Concrete Rose

FICTION Young Adult

‘Concrete Rose’: a Compassionate Prequel to ‘The Hate U Give’

January 12, 2021January 12, 2021 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments Angie Thomas, Concrete Rose, The Hate U Give

Angie Thomas’s love letter to Black boys everywhere

Grown

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Groomed

September 15, 2020 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments Grown, Tiffany B. Jackson

YA novel ‘Grown’ highlights the dangers for teenage Black girls in relationships with older men

Jordan Marie Green

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Jordan Marie Green Plays with ‘Fire’

September 2, 2020September 8, 2020 Sharyn Vane 8 Comments Dancing With Fire, Flatiron Books, Hawai'i, Jordan Marie Green, Macmillan, Melanie Conklin

Another YA author pulls book after criticism about cultural representation

This Is My America

FICTION Young Adult

‘This is My America’ Takes On Racial Inequality

August 12, 2020August 16, 2020 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments Eric Garner, Kim Johnson, Rodney King, This is My America

A fast-paced, effective debut YA novel about inequities in the criminal-justice system

Parachutes

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‘Parachutes’ and ‘We Are Not From Here’

June 29, 2020July 1, 2020 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments Jenny Torres Sanchez, Kelly Yang, Parachutes, We Are Not From Here

Very different but equally essential stories about immigrant kids who yearn to come to America

Juneteenth

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Juneteenth Book Fest Celebrates Black Authors

June 19, 2020June 19, 2020 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments Angie Thomas, Jason Reynolds, Juneteenth, Juneteenth Book Fest, Kayla Ancrum, LL McKinney, Tochi Onyebuchi

Organizers put new festival together in three weeks

Artemis Fowl

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‘Artemis Fowl’, Artless and Foul

June 13, 2020 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments Artemis Fowl, Colin Farrell, Eoin Colfer, Ferdia Shaw, Josh Gad, Judi Dench, Nonso Anozie

It needed help from the faeries

All American Boys

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“Now Is The Time”

June 1, 2020June 3, 2020 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments All American Boys, Black Lives Matter, Brendan Kiely, Jason Reynolds

In online conversation, authors of ‘All American Boys’ plead for white families to join the conversation on race

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