Themes and Issues

Will Grayson, Will Grayson, by John Green and David Levithan

July 9, 2010
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Green, John and David Levithan (2010). Will Grayson, Will Grayson. NY: Dutton. 304 pages. I’ll admit it: I was both reluctant and masochistically eager to read this novel by YA literary phenoms Green and Levithan. While I have enjoyed–to extremely varying degrees–novels by both authors, I am dubious of their celebrity and the pre- and…

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If the Witness Lied, by Caroline B. Cooney

September 13, 2009
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Cooney, Caroline B. (2009).  If the witness lied.  NY:  Delacorte Press.  213 pages. Man, Caroline B. Cooney must be about 100 years old by now and she’s still churning them out.  In her latest novel, a family thriller (written in a style not unlike 2007′s re-release of her 1993 novel Diamonds in the Shadow), three…

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King of the Screwups, by K.L. Going

July 28, 2009
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Another Kind of Cowboy, by Susan Juby

July 28, 2009
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Love and Lies: Marisol’s Story, by Ellen Wittlinger

October 9, 2008
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Down to the Bone, by Mayra Lazara Dole

April 21, 2008
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How They Met, and other stories, by David Levithan

April 6, 2008
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Grl2grl, by Julie Ann Peters

February 5, 2008
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Evolution, Me, and Other Freaks of Nature, by Robin Brande

December 13, 2007
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Parrotfish, by Ellen Wittlinger

December 13, 2007
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YA or STFU Meets Kirkus Reviews

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The Oscars of Teen Lit

It's Time for More YA for People of Color

Paranormal Activity: Re-reading Romance

Which Comes First? The Book or the Hoopla?

Best Teen Books for 2010

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