Posts in Books -- YA
Kindle Daily Deal: Rick Yancey.
"Kids need all kinds of books. They need to be held and transported and understood and entertained, sometimes all at once. They need stories of all kinds."
Princess Diaries to follow the Traveling Pants into adulthood.
The 2014 Edgar Awards...
Awards news: 2014 Aurora nominees and 2014 Vogal winners.
SLJ: The Diversity Issue.
Free excerpts: Soho Teen.
The shortlisted titles for the 2014 Branford Boase Award...
"A series of letters means a series of unreliable narrators. You get closer to someone in a letter, and also further away. Letters are not static, they move through space, they have an object in mind, they have formality, and intimacy too."
"Not everybody knows what it’s like to read a book and, for the first time, feel like there’s hope for your future."