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Dahl

FICTION Politics Young Adult

Puffin Books Bowdlerizes Roald Dahl

February 20, 2023February 24, 2023 Michael Washburn 0 Comments Alexandra Nossel, Ashley Esqueda, Inclusive Minds, James and the Giant Peach, PEN, Philip Pullman, Puffin, Roald Dahl, Salman Rushdie

The despicable, dystopian story behind a publisher’s use of “Inclusion Ambassadors” to transform beloved children’s novels

Nubia

FICTION Young Adult

Mis-Brand Nubia

November 8, 2022November 21, 2022 Dan Friedman 0 Comments Clarence A. Haynes, Nubia: The Awakening, Omar Epps

Actor Omar Epps creates a YA Afro-futurist world that’s basically an OK comic book without art

Across the Sand

FICTION Young Adult

Like ‘Sand’ Through The Hourglass

October 4, 2022November 21, 2022 Dan Friedman 0 Comments Across the Sand, Hugh Howey, Molly Fyde, Sand Chronicles, Wool

Why did it take Hugh Howey so long to write a sequel to ‘Sand’?

Muted

FICTION NON-FICTION Young Adult

The Best YA Abduction Stories

May 24, 2022August 24, 2022 Lily Moayeri 0 Comments Abduction, Brie Larson, Carolyn Lee Adams, Elizabeth Scott, Ellen Emerson White, Emma Donoghue, Grown, Janie Johnson, Jayce Dugard, Kathy Bates, Luanne Rice, Lucy Christopher, Muted, Natasha Preston, Stephen King, Stolen, Tami Charles, The Cellar, Tiffany D. Jackson

Teens love the genre, as long as the abductees eventually escape

Pinkwater

FICTION Young Adult

Daniel Pinkwater is Still Going

May 18, 2022August 24, 2022 Christopher Farnsworth 3 Comments Crazy in Poughkeepsie, Daniel Pinkwater, Lizard Music

‘Crazy In Poughkeepsie’, the latest novel from the original writer of books about weird outsider teens

Plum Creek

FICTION Politics Young Adult

The Plum Creek Literacy Festival is Now an Anti-LGBTQ “Ministry”

April 18, 2022April 29, 2022 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments Anne Ursu, Concordia University, Eliot Schrefer, Kelly Gallagher, Plum Creek Literacy Festival

Controversy continues to swirl around Concordia University young-adult book fair

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

FICTION Young Adult

The Undeniable Appeal of the YA Whodunnit

March 23, 2022April 10, 2022 Lily Moayeri 0 Comments A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, Courtney Summers, E. Lockhart, Genuine Fraud, Holly Jackson, Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Jessica Goodman, Karen McManus, Maureen Johnson, Monday's Not Coming, Natasha Preston, One of Us Is Lying, Sadie, Stephanie Perkins, The Inheritance Games, The Lake, There's Someone Inside Your House, They Wish They Were Us, Tiffany D. Jackson, Truly Devious

Just as mysterious as adult cozies, but not as self-absorbed

Soft Censorship

FICTION Young Adult

The Insidious Rise of ‘Soft Censorship’

March 14, 2022March 23, 2022 Sharyn Vane 4 Comments Ashley Hope Perez, Brandy Colbert, Kari Lavelle, Round Rock ISD, We Need Diverse Books

YA authors face canceled events, shadow bans, and other quiet dismissals of their work

Anatomy: A Love Story

FICTION Young Adult

‘Anatomy: A Love Story’

February 28, 2022August 24, 2022 Rob Kutner 0 Comments Anatomy: A Love Story, Dana Schwartz, Noble Blood

Dana Schwartz’s novel is a YA period piece with modern guts

American Library Association

FICTION Young Adult

American Library Association Awards Winners Are Facing Bans

January 25, 2022January 26, 2022 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments American Library Association, Ashley Hope Perez, Carole Boston Weatherford, Eliot Schrefer, Last Night At The Telegraph Club, Malinda Lo, Printz award

School districts continue to challenge the best young-adult books

censorship

FICTION Politics Young Adult

Attacks on Student Access to Books Ramping up Nationwide

November 18, 2021April 3, 2022 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments All Boys Aren't Blue, Ashley Hope Perez, Gabrielle Union, George M. Johnson, Last Night At The Telegraph Club, Malinda Lo, PEN America, Separate Is Never Equal

An unprecedented wave of censorship attempts

Gary Paulsen

FICTION Remembrance Young Adult

The Wild Books of Gary Paulsen

October 18, 2021October 20, 2021 Jake Harris 0 Comments Dogsong, Gary Paulsen, Hatchet, Into The Wild, Northwind, The Call of the Wild, Winterdance

Author of young-adult adventure stories is dead at age 82

Evison

FICTION Young Adult

Evison, Pérez Speak Out Against Censorship

October 12, 2021October 13, 2021 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments Ashley Hope Perez, Jonathan Evison, Lawn Boy, Out of Darkness

Authors deal with a rise of school book bans across the country

Beasts of Prey

Get Ready to Battle the ‘Beasts of Prey’

September 28, 2021September 29, 2021 Sharyn Vane 1 Comment Ayana Gray, Beasts of Prey, Oprah

The thrilling and eagerly-awaited first installment of an Africa-set YA fantasy trilogy has arrived

Opt Out

Politics Young Adult

Parents, Don’t Opt Out

September 1, 2021September 6, 2021 Sharyn Vane 3 Comments book banning, Facebook, Jandy Nelson, Jason Reynolds, Laurie Halse Anderson

Why would you restrict what your children read in school?

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