By: Mandy Becker I live in Arizona, a state well known for its beautiful cactus, its desert “dry heat,” its authentic Mexican food and, less positively, its consistently low-ranking education
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Bill Konigsberg recently published The Music of What Happens and has published a book that’ll make readers really think. This book comes after a list of already successful LGBT young
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In last week’s article we introduced some of the foundational thinking associated with Diversity in children’s and young adult literature, and how the evolution of this topic has begun to
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Part 1 There is no doubt that children’s literature has grown to enormous proportions in the world of popular fiction, especially with the Young Adult craze that has exploded over
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I’m not sure how or why, but I didn’t read many middle grade novels between the ages of eight and twelve—the target age range for these books. I started out
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I was a third of the way through “What if it’s Us” when I realized that I hated it. I had picked it up expecting a cute queer romance, something
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