This is one of those audiobook performances where the narrator doesn’t just read the story, she builds it moment by moment.

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Middle School and Middle Grade author Angela Cervantes joins The Hub to discuss valid representation in children’s literature ...

Printz honoree Maria Van Lieshout (Song of a Blackbird) joins us to discuss her YA graphic novel debut, receiving one of the top honors in young adult literature, and the importance of writing about ...

Oh, the memories! With Sarah Dessen at the 2009 YALSA Coffee Klatch. For the past few years, one of my favorite events at the ALA Annual Conference has been YALSA’s YA Author Coffee Klatch. A ticketed ...

I don’t read as much horror as I probably should, since it’s very popular with a lot of teen readers. So, I was very happy to attend this YA Literature Symposium session presented by the two Paulas ...

A few weeks ago, I was lamenting the closing down of one of my favorite restaurants in San Diego. I’m almost embarrassed to admit how choked up it made me feel, but hear me out: This particularly ...

It would be cool to be an oracle, to know all things and see into the future, wouldn’t it? Seventeen- year-old Aria Morse is indeed an actual oracle, much to the detriment of her high school social ...

Check out previous interviews in the One Thing Leads to Another series here. I’d been a fan of Laura Ruby for quite some time, having read, I think, all of her books–both YA and middle grade–as they ...

Check out previous interviews in the One Thing Leads to Another series here. I’ve been trying to write this introduction for a week now and I think the problem is that I live in the same city as ...

You are aware, I’m sure, that April is National Poetry Month. This brainchild of the Academy of American Poets has been celebrated since 1996, and the Academy’s website has a plethora of great ideas ...

Valentine’s Day is almost upon us and as heart-shaped cookies, chocolates, and balloons fill shop windows, I must acknowledge that the romance is in air–and on the bookshelves. And it seems only ...