YA Book Shelf | Honest to Goodness YA Novel Reviews Teenreads | Frenetic Reader How YA Lit Challenges Gender Norms Librarians are the pushers of the book world. Growing up in the house of an academic-turned-bartender-then-academic-again, it was inevitable, of course, that I’d be reading wildly age-inappropriate books almost as soon as I became literate. My father used to set me loose in the bookstore to wander freely, never raising an eyebrow at some of the titles on the pile of books I would teeteringly carry to the counter, which was, naturally, too high for me to reach. But it was my middle school librarian who introduced me to science fiction and fantasy after she saw me curled up in the corner on a rainy day with a copy of Rebecca and thought I might enjoy something of a slightly different flavor. She handed me The Mists of Avalon, which seems to be almost Everyone of a Certain Generation’s introduction to the wide world of fantasy, and when I lugged it back to the library a week later, I immediately demanded more Marion Zimmer Bradley. Yes, even the Darkover books with the sex pollen.
Tween 2 Teen Book Reviews 10 great science fiction novels that have been banned @djscruffy: And that's why you're a heathen and should be burned at the stake. @djscruffy: In defense of public schools, I would suggest that the reason many of these books are challenged so often is that they're frequently included in school curriculums and libraries. I grew up in a state that, according to these links, engaged in book-burning less than a decade before my birth. That makes me shudder. But I'm also the child of a public school teacher and am familiar with my mother's and many of her peers' views on children's reading materials. Despite the generally conservative views in my community, my elementary school encouraged me to read A Wrinkle in Time and The Giver and Are You There God, It's Me, Margaret. I suppose I've wandered a bit. @djscruffy: To be fair, it's not usually the schools that want to ban the books, but the few overprotective parents who make wild assumptions about the books we try to teach.
YABookNerd 29 Awesome Books With Strong Female Protagonists YA Authors on Instagram I adore Instagram. In the couple years I've been a member, I've loved the way it's encouraged me to think about my day a little more visually, and enabled me to share those (jazzily filterized) images with friends. Best of all, it's missing all the clutter and noise of Facebook. Just pretty pictures, captions, a handful of hashtags -- and authors. Just like with Pinterest and Tumblr, we've gathered as many YA authors as we could find with Instagram accounts. #enjoy! YA Highwayers on Instagram YA Highway - @yahighway Sarah Enni - @sarahenni Kate Hart - @katehart226 Sumayyah Daud - @bintdaud Kaitlin Ward - @kaitlin_ward Debra Driza - @debradriza Kristin Halbrook - @kristinhalbrook Stephanie Kuehn - @sskuehn Amy Lukavics - @amy.lukavics Kristin Otts - @kristinbotts Leila Austin - @leilaaustin Me! former Highwayers Kody Keplinger - @kodykeplinger Phoebe North - @phoebenorthauthor Veronica Roth - @vrothbooks YA Authors on Instagram E E. I I. J J. K K. P Phoebe North - @phoebenorthauthor
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