The Love Story We Need
A young adult novel that restores readers’ faith in the romantic comedy genre....
“Read Everything, Son, Everything You Can Get Your Hands On”: James Baldwin’s “Little Man, Little Man: A Story of Childhood”
James Baldwin’s 1976 young adult novel, reissued....
The Charred Remains of the Fairy Tale
A Nigerian author’s new novel shows why #BringBackOurGirls is a Western fantasy....
The Mirror and the Window: An Interview With Saadia Faruqi
A Pakistani-American author and activist on her new children’s book series, “Yasmin.”...
A Sea Monster Calls
A revisionist take on Moby-Dick with contemporary sociopolitical echoes....
Growing Up and Moving On
How YA fiction deals with sexual abuse in the #MeToo era....
“So Many Stories to Tell”: A Conversation with Maurene Goo
Steph Cha speaks to Korean-American novelist Maurene Goo about her latest, “The Way You Make Me Feel.”...
Scripts of Girlhood: An Interview with Hollie Tommasino
An interview with the designer of “The Baby-Sitters Club” novels....
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)....
