YALSA’s 2015 Morris/Nonfiction Reading Challenge Check-In #5
Not signed up for YALSA’s 2015 Morris/Nonfiction Reading Challenge? Read the official rules and sign up on the original post. If you’re finished, fill out the form at the bottom of this post to let us...
View Article2015 Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults: An Interview with...
The YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction honors the best nonfiction book published for young adults (ages 12-18) during a Nov. 1 – Oct. 31 publishing year. The award winner will be announced at the...
View ArticleFor Mardi Gras: YA Books Set in New Orleans
Today is Mardi Gras, the cumulation of Carnival celebrations before the start of Lent tomorrow. Lent is a specific time in the Christian calendar when believers are meant to fast and practice...
View Article2015 Hub Reading Challenge Check-In #3
Not signed up for YALSA’s 2014 Hub Reading Challenge? Read the official rules and sign up on the original post. Anything you’ve read since February 9 counts, so sign up now! Are you familiar with the...
View ArticleYA Lit with an Irish Connection
Slemish Mountain, the legendary home of St. Patrick. Photo by Flickr user Identity Chris Is Happy Saint Patrick’s Day! It is the feast day of the patron saint of Ireland. Patrick was not born in...
View Article2015 Hub Reading Challenge Check-In #7
Not signed up for YALSA’s 2015 Hub Reading Challenge? Read the official rules and sign up on the original post. Anything you’ve read since February 9 counts, so sign up now! Thirteen! Wait, let me...
View Article2015 Hub Reading Challenge Check-In #11
Not signed up for YALSA’s 2015 Hub Reading Challenge? Read the official rules and sign up on the original post. Anything you’ve read since February 9 counts, so sign up now! My fellow readers, I am...
View ArticleQuiet Books: They Deserve More Love
When you think about YA fiction, there are the “big” books – The Hunger Games, The Fault in Our Stars, Divergent, Twilight, Fangirl, Grasshopper Jungle – these are the books that are in the...
View Article2015 Hub Reading Challenge Check-In #15
Not signed up for YALSA’s 2015 Hub Reading Challenge? Read the official rules and sign up on the original post. Anything you’ve read since February 9 counts, so sign up now! Each week in these...
View ArticleThe Glorious 25th of May & Terry Pratchett
Photo by Flickr user Glenn Kraeck It is the “Glorious 25th of May” and if you are a fan of the late Sir Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series, you no doubt understand what that means. If you have yet to...
View ArticleGreat Road Trip Audiobooks for Teens (And their Parents!)
photo by Flickr user Julien Sanine It’s summertime and you know what that means: sunny skies, windows down, time to take a road trip! If you haven’t discovered the joys of audiobooks, summer road trips...
View Article2015 Hub Reading Challenge Check-In #19
“And now, the end is near, and so I face, the final curtain…” OK, that’s hokey, but apt! The end is very near indeed! Tonight at 11:59 PM EDT the 2015 Hub Reading Challenge wraps up. If you took part...
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