Amanda MacGregor

Young people are interested in science. Children’s authors and books with engrossing STEM stories can encourage this interest.

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Full of family drama, new experiences, and the very real teenage desire to both discover new things and have comfortable things stay the same.

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"Even though the standard suggestion is to avoid too much pop culture in your writing to keep your books timeless, I decided to explore a little bit of influencer culture in my latest YA novel This Is For Tonight."

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I totally and completely loved this book about identity, lies, exploration, and truth. This is one of my top reads of the year so far!

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Robin Stevenson and Tom Ryan talk about writing "a big queer Canadian YA novel" together.

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In Joya Goffney's debut novel, her Black main character rises against the disappointments caused by her white friends and seeks joy.

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Fiction is the one place where literally anything is possible. If it tells teens that their own experiences are too unrealistic to put on paper, well, I think it’s about time we changed that.

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James Sie's message: Your stories are worth telling. You are seen. And you are loved.

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