Category: Pine Reads Review

From Villain to Anti-Hero | Rebranding President Snow

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Warning: spoilers for The Hunger Games series and Star Wars franchise below!  In 2008, Suzanne Collins revitalized the young adult dystopian genre both in print and on the big screen.

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Lumberjanes | Noelle Stevenson, Shannon Watters & Grace Ellis

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Lumberjanes by Noelle Stevenson, Shannon Watters & Grace Ellis Illustrated by Brooke Allen Boom! Studios, 2015, 132 pages About the Authors  Noelle Stevenson is a graduate of the Maryland Institute

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Ugly Cat & Pablo | Isabel Quintero

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Ugly Cat & Pablo by Isabel Quintero Illustrated by Tom Knight Scholastic Inc, 2017, 112 pages About the Author: Isabel Quintero is an award-winning writer and the daughter of Mexican immigrants.

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The 12 Rules of Survival | Episode 38: The Changes in Things

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Nicholas Belardes is a dual-ethnic Chicano writer. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in the YA-themed edition of The Latinx Archive: Speculative Fiction for Dreamers (Ohio State University Press),

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Interview with Nicola Daly

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Nicola Daly is a Senior Lecturer in the Division of Education at the University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand where she teaches courses in children’s literature and language learning and

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Worlds of Words Showcase | Juana Martinez-Neal and Molly Idle

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How is art influenced by other people? The current exhibition at Worlds of Words, a curation of global children’s literature located at the University of Arizona, tries to answer this

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