Overall, This Will Go Down on Your Permanent Record cracks open doors but never explores what’s in the room.
Tag: YA
Fat Girl Dances With Rocks #LGBT #ownvoices @SusanStinson
A unique coming-of-age novel with diverse characters that meets the criteria for a fat-positive novel.
Only Ever Yours #bookreview #readwomen #YAlit
The characters in Only Ever Yours are terribly familiar. If you’ve ever been a devoted fan of the Sweet Valley Twins books like I was, you’ll remember the cast…
Hung Up
Once upon a time, last semester, I took a course called International Foods. I did this because I liked the idea of eating at school, and also learning in a room that had ovens.
Meet the Writer: Missy Wilkinson
…but my mom said we couldn’t keep her. So I wrote a moving, construction-paper saga of a girl and her puppy.
Tides
Cornwell is a beautiful prose writer, infusing an uncomplicated plot with lyrical narrative that brings to life a vivid landscape where it is easy to believe in legends.
Anonymity
But when she’s made aware of the homeless youth population in Austin, she can’t look away ever again.
Little Fish
It’s a lot of cut and paste (literally) from 2003-2004, causing the book to tell readers quite a bit of information without showing it, and without trusting readers to pick up on visual ques in a visual medium.
This One Summer
Title: This One Summer Writer: Mariko Tamaki Illustrator: Jillian Tamaki Published: by First Second in 2014 This One Summer is the story of fifteen-year-old Rose heading to Awago Beach for… Read more “This One Summer”
Meet the Writer: Liz Prince
Liz Prince‘s first book, Will You Still Love Me If I Wet the Bed? (Top Shelf Productions, 2005), has been nominated for several awards, and received the… Read more “Meet the Writer: Liz Prince”
