Young adult (YA) fiction has a history of innovation, from when librarian Margaret Scoggin renamed her library journal column to Books for Young Adults in 1944 to when S. E.
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The Heart Trials out now from G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers; 400 pages Content Warning: Oppression, death, murder, fantasy racism, assault About the Author: “J. Elle is the
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If you’ve walked into a TJ Maxx or Marshalls recently, you may have noticed something that wasn’t nearly as common a few years ago: books. Not just cookbooks or journals,
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In the summer I have more free time to read books of my choosing, but it can be difficult to know what books to pick up out of all the
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One of my favorite things about reading is noticing the little storytelling patterns that show up again and again. Not the huge, obvious tropes everyone talks about, but the smaller
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As 2025 comes to a close, I’ve started thinking more about what I want to include in my book journal for 2026. For the past two years, I’ve kept a
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