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Whether teens are looking for the next The Fault in Our Stars readalike (A.J. Betts's Zac & Mia) or a fantasy-infused gender-bending novel (Corinne Duyvis's ,em>Otherbound), check out the following titles recently reviewed for young adults in SLJ's June issue.
Newly reviewed middle grade titles include several intriguing mysteries, some magical adventure stories, and a selection of graphic novels.
Find out what your favorite authors and illustrators are reading this summer.
Highlights of this issue include a grimy pigeon (yes, that Pigeon!), a Hug Machine, a dancing cat, and some fun retellings of traditional tales.
Writing historical fiction calls for lots of research. Language, clothing, housing, technology are just the tip of the factual iceberg when it comes to building a story based on actual events. Use the following fictional titles, selected by Junior Library Guild editors, to support the Common Core while leading middle schoolers to the facts.
There's poetry in numbers as iPad viewers discover this month.
From a dystopian adventure set in Hawaii to a surreal, graphic-novel-inspired picture book to a deep exploration of one history's most infamous families, the June Stars offer excellent examples of the best in fiction, nonfiction, and media for children and teens.
James Sturm, Andrew Arnold, and Alexis Frederick-Frost, the creative trio behind Adventures in Cartooning and its sequels, got kids excited about drawing comics, and now they have a new book that goes in a different direction: Sleepless Knight, which will be out later this year, is a story comic, not an instructional book, in which [...]
So the big news this week was that a writer at Slate decided that now was an ideal time to take a potshot at adults reading young adult books. And, as you might expect, everyone got quite hot under the collar about it. To arms! To arms! Considering that this sort of thing happens pretty [...]
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