Linkage.

• 10 Worst Book Covers in the History of Literature. Major claim, yes, but some of these are quite terrible.
• Two literary Father's Day quizzes: One for older children (7/10) and one for younger children (5/5).
• 22 Fictional Characters Whose Names You Don't Know. Patricia Reichardt!
• 'Book Burning Party' campaign saves the library in Troy, MI.
• Very cool (though out of my pay-grade!) altered book art.
• More from Patrick Ness on teenagers: "I've always said that I can't write books for other people, I can only write them for me, and paradoxically, that's the only time anyone else has wanted to read them. So when I write for teenagers, I'm really writing for the teenage me. The me that needed to be taken seriously at least once in awhile. The me that needed to hear that, no matter how dark it might feel, that there was light ahead."
• Questions about symbolism in fiction: this sixteen-year-old went right to the source.