Tag Archives: YA literature
An Interview with Christine Kendall, by Laura Parnum
Take a few minutes to get to know another one of our fabulous PA authors, Christine Kendall! She’ll be speaking at Fall Philly (on Sunday!!), and Laura Parnum took some time to chat with her about the process of researching … Continue reading
Why Do #WeNeedDiverseBooks? by Lindsay Bandy
There are lots of easy answers to this to this question, but let’s start with ourselves. Why do WE need diverse books? As writers, we have lofty and lovely goals of battling prejudice and making the world a nicer, more fair … Continue reading
Read This! by Lori Ann Palma
Reality Boy by A.S. King When Gerald was 5, his parents allowed a television crew into their home to film a reality show. As a network TV nanny tries to fix their dysfunctional family in front of America, Gerald … Continue reading
Read This! by Lori Ann Palma
All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven When Theodore Finch first speaks to Violet Markey, a girl he barely knows, it’s on top of their high school bell tower, where they are both contemplating suicide. As they help each … Continue reading
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Read This! by Lori Ann Palma
Skink–No Surrender by Carl Hiaasen If you’re looking for a quirky read that’s different than any other YA you’ve read this summer, then pick up Skink–No Surrender, which is one of Carl Hiaasen’s books for young readers. Featuring Skink, a … Continue reading
Behave Yourself with Backstory! by Lindsay Bandy
You know that person who tells the story about a five-second incident in the grocery store in a painful, 7.5-minute re-enaction? This happened, then that happened, then she said, and I was like, blah-blah-blah. We want the story to be over. … Continue reading
Putting the “Fun” into Functional Social Media for Authors, by Lori Ann Palma
For those of us who grew up without the Internet, social media can still be a bit of a conundrum. Like the YA version of ourselves, we might often say, “Do I have to? Do I really have to?” The … Continue reading
I Dare You to “Lern,” by Lindsay Bandy
My writing notebook was recently hijacked by a 6-year-old. My oldest daughter decided to use it to practice her handwriting. She also gave it a title, which it was, admittedly, lacking. Behold my notebook: This is my project journal, filled … Continue reading
