My Favorites From the Youth Media Awards
Earlier this week ALA (American Library Association) announced the 2017 youth media award winners, which includes over 20 awards for books, video and audio books. Here are my favorites from the award-winners.
When Kissing Scares People
When I read Two Boys Kissing three years ago, I knew I was holding a banned book. A reader gets an immediate sense of what acclaimed young adult author David Levithan’s novel is about; however, as with so many great books, Two Boys Kissing is much more than its title and cover.
Throwback Thursday: Teens (Sometimes) Get the Best Books
For the past few summers, the fine folks at NPR have asked their readers to contribute to themed Best 100 book lists. [In 2012] they tackled the wide world of YA novels.
Celebrating Teens and Creativity at the Teen Media Awards
At The Labs @ CLP, young people in the Pittsburgh region have many opportunities to collaborate with each other and pursue individual interests in a variety of areas include writing, music, filmmaking, animation, photography, robotics and design.
Sarah J. Maas’s World of Assassins
Throne of Glass follows Celaena Sardothien, an assassin who is consistently under-estimated because she’s a girl.