Anyone pursuing creative work with any level of seriousness has heard the question: “How do you find the time?” They may or may not have responded by laughing, loudly and grimly, until the questioner slunk away. Time, as Heidi Heilig says below, isn’t forged, but “gleaned from sacrifice on a dark altar.” Around childcare, family […]
Julie Buxbaum made us happy cry last year with Tell Me Three Things, and now she’s back with What to Say Next, the tale of two teens who forge a life-changing friendship. Kit just lost her father, and grief has made her a stranger to herself. David, a teen on the spectrum, has always been different, offering blunt honesty […]
Meet the Young Adults, the B&N Teen Blog’s swat team of awesome teenaged bloggers. YA literature is a strange and wonderful landscape of books that should be read by everybody, but each month we highlight the perspective of teens reading the best of the best books written for and about them. Check back monthly to see what they’re recommending […]
Back to school season is here, and with it the death of summer, sleeping in, and lazy afternoons spent reading the nonrequired books of your choice. It’s enough to make you forget all the amazing things about going back to school: learning a new routine, filling up the first pages of all those pristine notebooks, […]