Boarding School Magic
Why is young adult fiction so enamored of boarding school life?...
World Split Open: The Poetry of Adolescent Girlhood
In "The Poet X," a teenage Dominican girl in Harlem discovers herself through slam poetry....
Pedagogic, Not Didactic: Michael Cart on Young Adult Fiction
On the growing sophistication of YA fiction and its audience....
Ancient Folklore with a Modern Twist
Kicking off a YA series about a New Jersey princess (a real one)....
A Wider World of Reading
Kristin Van Tassel explores Juan Villoro's "The Wild Book."...
Meg Murry’s Glasses
Sarah Mesle on how Madeleine L’Engle’s and Ava DuVernay’s "A Wrinkle in Time" diverge around their contrasting ethics of the visual....
Feeling the Fear of Difference: Celebrating “A Wrinkle in Time”
A symposium on Madeleine L’Engle’s classic YA fantasy....
The Wound in the Willows
Rewriting Kenneth Grahame’s classic children’s story....
Growing Up Female
On the pragmatic feminism of Tamora Pierce....
John Green’s Anxieties: On “Turtles All the Way Down”
Jonathan Alexander on John Green's new novel....
The Ghosts of Gun Violence: Jason Reynold’s “Long Way Down”
Julia Walton on a new novel in verse about trauma and family tragedy....
Other People’s Children, Part 2: Stories in the Aftermath, or “The Hate U Give”
Angie Thomas’s debut novel tackles the traumas of race in contemporary America....
