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Book Review: Night Swimming by Aaron Starmer
Starmer has beautifully captured how that post-graduation, pre-college summer can feel: full of potential, last chances, drawn-out goodbyes, and perfect moments that you wish could last forever.
Nothing Good Comes From Hiding Even the Ugliest Truths in the Closet, a guest post by Rob Costello
Certain kinds of important, difficult, and formative queer experiences are not being truthfully explored in books for queer teens—primarily, I believe, because they make adult gatekeepers uncomfortable.
Post-It Note Reviews: Oops, All Graphic Novels!
Here are five quick reviews of graphic novels I've read in the past few weeks.
Inspired by Scooby Doo: Character Creation in Love at Second Sight, a guest post by F. T. Lukens
The characters in Love at Second Sight are not direct parallels to the Scooby Doo crew despite referencing them at one point, but they were one of many inspirations. And with that, I would like to introduce the Love at Second Sight characters through the lens of Scooby Doo.
See You Saturday at Teen Lit Con in Minnesota!
Saturday, April 26 is my favorite day of the year! That's right, it's time for Teen Lit Con again in Mendota Heights, Minnesota! I'm excited to be presenting for the sixth year.
Take Five: Canadian Middle Grade
How about some recent and forthcoming releases from Canadian middle grade authors? Canada seems nice, doesn't it?
Tontines: A Great Investment? Or a Great Way to Get Bumped Off? A guest post by Dianne K. Salerni
Eventually, I decided that the nefarious plotting of my young tontine contenders was not only acceptable for middle grade but also funny—for the same reason that Home Alone is a comedy and not a horror movie.
Book Review: The Tontine Caper by Dianne K. Salerni with illustrations by Matt Schu
Literally everyone in this fast-paced story is Up To Something and it's so satisfying as it's all revealed.
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