Tag: young adult literature

The YA Scene: Magic, Apocalypses, and…Pirates?

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Sailing the shelves of the YA department in bookstores across the world is a resurgence of pirates in all their swashbuckling glory—and then some.

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Gem & Dixie | Sara Zarr

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What does it mean to be sisters? Does it mean that you must be close? Does it mean that you are always there for one another? It used to always

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Honestly Ben | Bill Konigsberg

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Much more than just your average love triangle, Honestly Ben poses questions about class, masculinity, family, sexuality, and honesty, none of which have simple answers. Konigsberg does an incredible job

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Openly Straight | Bill Konigsberg

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So instead of letting that continue when he transfers to Natick, a prestigious boy’s school in Massachusetts, he decides to adopt a “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy where his sexuality

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After the B4: Girl in Pieces and Combating the Brooding Byronic Bad Boy

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If you’re not following @broodingYAhero on Twitter, you probably should be. I say this not because I have some kind of sponsorship deal (I don’t) or because I spend too

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Dreadnought | April Daniels

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Dreadnought by April Daniels is book one of a superhero series that follows Danielle “Danny” Tozer, an assigned-male-at-birth transgirl who is granted superpowers by a major superhero, Dreadnought. These superpowers

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