Young Adult & Children’s Literature

Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.

— Dr. Seuss

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  Vampire Socials

  The distressingly human lives of vampires today

  Becca RothfeldSep 19, 2014

  • Television

  • Young Adult & Children’s Literature

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  A Boyhood Epic

  On Richard Linklater's 'Boyhood'

  Wai Chee DimockAug 1, 2014

  • Young Adult & Children’s Literature

• Young Adult Cancer Story

  “I only know what it’s like to read The Fault in Our Stars as a woman in my mid-30s who is friends with a woman in her mid-30s who, like Hazel Grace Lancaster, has incurable Stage 4 cancer.”

  Briallen HopperJul 16, 2014

  • Young Adult & Children’s Literature

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  A Mixed Bag of Summer from Jillian and Mariko Tamaki

  Luckily, Jillian Tamaki’s exquisite drawings redeem This One Summer.

  Austin EnglishJul 11, 2014

  • Comics

  • Young Adult & Children’s Literature

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  YAC Hit List: For the Young, Fantastically Complex Reader

  “I think all my books for teenagers have ended up being about being heard. Being taken seriously. Being treated as a complex creation who doesn’t always get things right but — importantly — also doesn’t always get things wrong.”

  Patrick NessJun 18, 2014

  • Young Adult & Children’s Literature

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  Dancing at the Edge

  McCormick Templeman reads Brandy Colbert’s buzzed-about debut novel Pointe — and wishes she wrote it herself.

  McCormick TemplemanMay 10, 2014

  • Young Adult & Children’s Literature

• YAC HIT LIST: Young Adult Science Fiction

  Beth RevisDec 13, 2013

  • SF

  • Young Adult & Children’s Literature

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  On the Shore with Tyrell and Bronxwood

  "The books are letting her talk about her life in a safe way that offers her a quick out should she need it."

  Gigi AmateauJun 1, 2012

  • Young Adult & Children’s Literature

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  Nostalgies: James and The Giant Peach

  April Henry, Paul AcamporaMay 31, 2012

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  Discoveries: Tom Bissell, April Bernard, James Franco, John Green, Sarah Manguso

  On 'Magic Hours,' 'Miss Fuller,' 'The Dangerous Book Four Boys,' 'The Fault of Our Stars,' and 'The Guardians.'

  Susan Salter ReynoldsMay 6, 2012

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  Only the Good

  Susan Salter ReynoldsMay 6, 2012

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  Weetzie Bat Meets the Genie

  "Block paints Los Angeles in late-eighties' Rococo: Patrick Nagel doing the Go-Gos in dayglo."

  Bennett MadisonApr 23, 2012

  • Young Adult & Children’s Literature