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Dark Horse Comics is a publisher whose titles tend to be heavily slanted to the older teen/adult male audiences, rather than girls or young readers in general; their few all ages offerings have been licensed properties such as Star Wars and Avatar the Last Airbender. That’s starting to change with a recent announcement made at [...]
If the Easter Bunny comes to your house, make sure he includes some of these new releases in his Easter basket! BOOM! Studios releases the first trade paperback of Lumberjanes, so you no longer have an excuse to not be reading this highly acclaimed series. Papercutz has the second volume of their zany take on [...]
Last Halloween, as I was trick-or-treating with my kids, I ran into one of my teen volunteers, who was dressed like this: I didn’t immediately recognize the costume and I asked her who she was dressed as. Her reply–”Um, it’s from a movie? It’s called Clueless“–caused my wife an I to gape for two reasons: [...]
Epitomizing creativity, talent, perseverance and hard work, and visionary, innovative ideas, the figures profiled in these series make excellent role models and provide stimulating reading and excellent classroom and assignment support.
Two new handbooks remind teachers and librarians that poetry needn’t be relegated to a single unit or a particular time of year.
On my post the other day about gender representation in books, I mentioned as an afterthought the problem wordless picture books present in identifying gender. I thought the topic deserved a post of its own. It’s not some kind of queer-theory intellectual problem, either, as books that don’t identify the gender of its characters play hell with a […]
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#FSYALit: Hooking Up with Jesus, a discussion of Jackson Pearce’s PURITY by guest blogger Jen Leitch
Today as part of our ongoing discussion of Faith and Spirituality in YA Lit, guest blogger Jen Leitch is discussing PURITY by Jackson Pearce. You can learn more about the discussion and see the previous posts at the #FSYALit Discussion Hub. “The only thing I leave the session with is a sense of certainty that [...]
Today we review the first in one fantasy series and the second in another. Randy Henderson’s debut novel, Finn Fancy Necromancy, is fantasy with a good dose of humor, something that can be hugely popular with teens if it hits them right. (Our reviewer notes call-outs to Terry Pratchett and Douglas Adams!) The first three [...]
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