Why YA Lit Matters: An Op-Ed Surrounding the Censorship of YA Novels, From a Young Adult’s Perspective

Young Adults vs. Children: Age Makes a Difference in Interpretation There is a measurable difference between children and teenagers and how they think; and while I lack the scientific data and figures to prove this point with hard-hitting and reliable…

Books to Movies: Which of Your Favorite YA Reads Might/Will Hit the Big Screen?

  Hollywood is gobbling up movie rights to almost every best-selling Young Adult novel to hit book stands in the past few years. Can you blame them? Every studio is looking for the new Harry Potter, Twilight and now Hunger…

Top Ten YA Books You (Probably) Haven’t Read

I was just thinking the other day how big the Young Adult section of bookstores and libraries have become. I remember when I was 14, only one medium-sized shelf was dedicated to it. And now, it has a whole section…