We sit down with Printz Honor and Winner Angeline Boulley to discuss novels as a teaching opportunity, exploring and ...

And the Trees Stare Back offers all the elements that make for outstanding YA literary fiction: evocative, atmospheric prose; a deeply authentic first-person voice; and historical grounding in a ...

Southern lore plays a huge role in this gothic horror book. Every 13 years, the cicadas descend on Carrion. Along with that, some townsperson go missing. Legend has it that the devil walks among them, ...

This graphic novel offers a thoughtful portrayal of a teenager navigating the balance between family expectations during ...

The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), announces its 2026 Best Fiction for Young Adult (BFYA) book list. The list of 61 titles is ...

Check out previous interviews in the One Thing Leads to Another series here. I don’t mind telling you that I was sophomore in high school in 1986. I was (as so many of us were) 15 going on confused, ...

Kelley Blue, Portland Public Library, ME (Coordinator); Meg Bowie, Free Library of Philadelphia; Jean Broughton, Vancouver Public Library; Jacqueline Bush, Stratford Library Association; M’issa ...

Coordinator, Jodi Kruse; Stephanie Burdic, Kirsta Hutley, Marie LeJeune, Kaitlin Malixi, Melissa Palmer, Allison Riggs, Maryjean Riou, Gia Ruiz, Zoe Smolen, Emily ...

This research presents the results of a survey of 833 U.S. adolescents, ages twelve to eighteen years old. It was hypothesized that teachers are assigning reading (rather than students self-selecting ...

Coordinator, Jessica Lorentz Smith, Rachel Adams, Sarah Carnahan, Cathy DeCampli, Mike Fleming, Katie Guzan, Katrina Henderson, Emma K. McNamara, Julianne Novetsky ...

Although the popularity of graphic novels is growing by leaps and bounds, there is currently little empirical research documenting their use with struggling male adolescent readers. The purpose of ...

Check out previous interviews in the One Thing Leads to Another series here. Here’s a personal story. Almost five years ago now I was just finishing up back-to-back stints on selection committees as a ...