Why More Parents Should Let Teens Read Sex Scenes
July 11th, 2023 | by Kerry Chaput
If popular culture exposed me to sex as a positive experience, maybe I wouldn’t have been so afraid
Browsing the "YA lit" Tag
“Sadness Amid Joy”: Lakshmi Iyer’s Middle-Grade Novel Brings New Perspectives to Adoption Literature
August 27th, 2020 | by Cheryl Klein
I started from the things I am intimately familiar with. I am often at the receiving end of questions like “Why is my hair black?” or “Why is my skin different from my sister?”
Writing FOR BLACK GIRLS LIKE ME: an interview with Mariama Lockington
August 10th, 2019 | by Ezra Stone
Earlier this summer, I read an advance reader copy of For Black Girls Like Me, Mariama Lockington’s glorious debut YA novel.