Stonewall Book Award – 2015 Winners
Each year the American Library Association (ALA) announces the Youth Media Awards given to outstanding children and young adult books (including audiobooks, videos and graphic novels). This year the awards were presented on Monday Feb 1st, in [...]
February Book Club: The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley by Shaun Hutchinson
In February, we’ll be reading The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley by Shaun Hutchinson! The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley (Simon Pulse, 2015) Andrew Brawley was supposed to die that night. His parents [...]
Author Guest Post: Love, War, and Fairy Tale Endings
by Danny M. Cohen Early on in my debut novel, Train, teenagers Alexander and Marko make their way through the midnight shadows of Berlin to The Fountain of Fairy Tales in Friedrichshain Park. Statues of [...]
Author Interview: Danny M. Cohen
Today we are talking with author Danny M. Cohen about his debut novel, TRAIN, which comes out today! Happy release day Danny! Train by Danny M. Cohen (Unsilence Project , 2015) About the [...]
Call For Guest Bloggers
Welcome to our first monthly call for guest bloggers! Each month we will put up a list of topics, prompt questions, or specific kinds of people we're looking for submissions on/from. For this first call, we want [...]
Review: Remember Me by Melanie Batchelor
Melanie Batchelor was fourteen years old when she wrote the subject of this month’s review, Remember Me. Had I not known that, I would’ve filled this review with a thousand praises for her nuanced, accurate [...]
Gay YA: a personal retrospective
How They Met and Other Stories (Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2008) The first gay YA I picked up, in early 2009, was David Levithan’s short story collection How They Met, and Other [...]
Review: Stranger by Rachel Manija Brown and Sherwood Smith
Stranger (Viking Juveline, 2014) Many generations ago, a mysterious cataclysm struck the world. Governments collapsed and people scattered, to rebuild where they could. A mutation, "the Change,” arose, granting some people unique powers. Though [...]
New Releases: January 2015
JANUARY 1ST (UK) The Art of Being Normal (David Fickling Books, 2015) The Art of Being Normal by Lisa Williamson -- (TRANS) Goodreads Summary: "Two boys. Two secrets. David Piper has always been an outsider. His [...]
Review: Lies my Girlfriend Told Me by Julie Anne Peters
Lies My Girlfriend Told Me (Little Brown Books, 2014) I bought this on a whim because it showed up on the ‘What other customers bought’ section of my Amazon page, which made no [...]