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This year’s Banned Books Week (BBW, September 27 to October 3) will celebrate books written for the teen audience, the BBW National Committee announced on April 22.
The American Library Association has announced 2014’s most frequently challenged books. Teen Read Week grants are available from YALSA. Enter in two YA book giveaways. See how one librarian hosted a Doctor Who–themed lock-in with great success.
Snappy dialogue, charming characters, even pacing, and poignant sentence-level writing make this offering a must-have.—Shelley Diaz, School Library Journal
Dan is reeling from some recent news. Just after his parents started fighting about money, his mum’s great-aunt died and left them a house. Unfortunately, his dad then announced he was bankrupt, gay, and leaving them. Stunned and angry, Dan still manages to relate his story with plenty of humor: “Guys, please, one life-changing shock at a time.” Readers will fall hard for this total (and totally adorable) nerd. He and his mum move into Great-aunt Adelaide’s house, not far from best friend Fred—though Dan won’t be attending their swanky private school anymore. At his new school, unlucky Dan quickly makes an enemy of a bully, who turns the whole student body against him. He does make one friend, Lou
In BOB’s final round, The Closer, Newbery Medalist Clare Vanderpool, selects Steve Sheinkin’s Port Chicago 50 as the victor of the yearly virtual tournament of books for children and teens.
YA novelist Nova Ren Suma shares what inspired her to write about killer ballerinas and a bookish incarcerated teen in her latest work, which explores feminism, friendship, and unlikable narrators.
From Rosamunde Hodge’s latest fairy tale reimagining to Bill Konigsberg’s road trip YA, the following books for teens are among this year’s must-have titles.
The opening round of the annual virtual tournament featuring children’s and young adult books in a March Madness—like competition has come to a close. Graphic novels This One Summer and El Deafo and celebrated titles Brown Girl Dreaming and Port Chicago 50, among others, have continued on to fight another day.