I love a powerful YA heroine. I love warriors and badasses and heroines who hate makeup and even the girls who don’t really get along with their kind. But I also love the girly girls. The ones who know that being of value and taking time on your looks aren’t mutually exclusive, who wear their red lipstick like armor and get knocked over flat by new love. When […]
We’re living in a YA golden age, with loads of diverse, funny, smart, sad, joyous, illuminating books hitting the shelves each week. We all have a list of books that comforted us, exhilarated us, and even saved us when we were teen readers, those fortuitous bookstore and library finds that spoke directly to our budding brains. But with the benefit […]
This week’s most exciting new releases include sister stories, a blockbuster-worthy thriller, and a dark, magical debut set in a slightly altered world. Here are the books we’re taking on a picnic-for-one right now:
These are the truths that keep me up at night: It’s easy to let great books fall through the cracks, and it’s impossible to read everything worth reading. To avoid undue panic/reprehensible gaps in your bookshelf that will slowly come to haunt and mock you like Poe’s raven, be sure to read every single book on […]
If, like me, you’re a child of a Certain Decade, there’s a good chance you grew up reading Ann M. Martin’s Baby-Sitters Club series, about a group of thirteen-year-old girls (later joined by some younger girls plus a guy) who start a…actually, the series title is really self-explanatory. Although we were blessed with this delightful series, alas, […]