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Just As You Are: Church Kids and Purity Culture in Never Saw You Coming by Erin Hahn
This is really the dedication to a 2021 young adult book published by a big 5 publisher. It sets the tone for the whole book. IYKYK, as the kids say. I was a church kid my entire childhood and well into adulthood, really. I was such a church kid. And I wasn’t ready for Erin […]
Perfectly Imperfect, a guest post by Corey Ann Haydu
Author Corey Ann Haydu talks with us about imperfect characters with imperfect feelings
Ally’s Favorite Graphic Novels of 2020
It’s no secret that 2020 has been…a lot. But also, a lot of beautiful comics and graphic novels have come out this year. Here’s a few of my favorites middle grade and YA graphic novels from 2020, in no particular order: Go With the Flow is a great MG graphic novel about a group of […]
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September/October Comics Roundup
Hey, friends! It’s been quite awhile since we’ve done a comics roundup here at TLT, so here’s a few MG and YA comics and graphic novels releasing in September and October that you might be interested in! Witches of Brooklyn by Sophie Escabasse. September 1. Random House Graphic. Effie has a new life with new […]
Humor in YA, a guest post by Hope Bolinger
Why We Need Humor in YA BooksI grew up in the era of really depressing YA books. That’s right. When authors hit the dystopian euphoria, I’d started middle school, and by the time they ended their worlds where the governments wore white suits and pitted teenagers against each other in arenas, I graduated. And I […]
Turner Syndrome and Representation, a guest post by Sarah Allen
I was born XO, which does not stand for hugs and kisses. Lots of things became chaotic when I was born. I had something called omphalocele, which means my intestines were sticking out through a hole in my stomach where my belly button should have been. I was rushed to surgery before my mom was […]
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Writing on Wheels, a guest post by Kit Rosewater
I wasn’t an athletic kid. That’s what I said to people if they asked what I was into. I said I was a theatre geek, a book nerd, one of those kids who only worked out when lifting a stack of books or swinging around a fake plastic sword. Those were lies, of course, though […]
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