Young Adult & Children’s Literature

Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.

— Dr. Seuss

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  It Has to Be Real: A Conversation with Kim Purcell

  A prominent YA author on the challenges of creating diverse characters and stories.

  Brianna BranchJan 12, 2019

  • Young Adult & Children’s Literature

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  Anne of the Armistice: Girls’ Book Heroines Confront the Great War

  Looking back at YA novels of the home front on the centennial of the World War I Armistice.

  Perri KlassDec 1, 2018

  • Young Adult & Children’s Literature

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  The Love Story We Need

  A young adult novel that restores readers’ faith in the romantic comedy genre.

  J. B. HowardOct 12, 2018

  • Young Adult & Children’s Literature

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  “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.

  Tiffany Willoughby-HerardSep 30, 2018

  • Young Adult & Children’s Literature

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  The Charred Remains of the Fairy Tale

  A Nigerian author’s new novel shows why #BringBackOurGirls is a Western fantasy.

  J. C. HallmanSep 21, 2018

  • Around the World

  • Young Adult & Children’s Literature

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  The Mirror and the Window: An Interview With Saadia Faruqi

  A Pakistani-American author and activist on her new children’s book series, “Yasmin.”

  Beth WinegarnerSep 15, 2018

  • Young Adult & Children’s Literature

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  A Sea Monster Calls

  A revisionist take on Moby-Dick with contemporary sociopolitical echoes.

  Tim CummingsSep 4, 2018

  • Young Adult & Children’s Literature

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  Growing Up and Moving On

  How YA fiction deals with sexual abuse in the #MeToo era.

  Jilly PretzelAug 26, 2018

  • Young Adult & Children’s Literature

• “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.”

  Steph ChaAug 22, 2018

  • Fiction

  • Young Adult & Children’s Literature

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  Scripts of Girlhood: An Interview with Hollie Tommasino

  An interview with the designer of “The Baby-Sitters Club” novels.

  Kelly BlewettAug 18, 2018

  • Art & Architecture

  • Young Adult & Children’s Literature

• Boarding School Magic

  Why is young adult fiction so enamored of boarding school life?

  Josephine WolffJul 5, 2018

  • Young Adult & Children’s Literature

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  World Split Open: The Poetry of Adolescent Girlhood

  In "The Poet X," a teenage Dominican girl in Harlem discovers herself through slam poetry.

  Sadie Shorr-ParksApr 27, 2018

  • Poetry

  • Young Adult & Children’s Literature