Tag: young adult literature

A Foray into Fantasy: Seven Must-Read Recommendations

By: Rebecca Hill

March 29, 2017

    The first book that I ever fell in love with was Dinosaurs at Dark, the first of the Magic Tree House series .  I remember sitting alone on the living room carpet at six years old when, suddenly, I realized I was reading a “real” book with no trouble.  There was something curious… More A Foray into Fantasy: Seven Must-Read Recommendations By: Rebecca Hill

This Book Is Full of Spiders: Seriously Dude, Don’t Touch It!

Review by Rebecca Nelson

February 13, 2016

**Editor’s Note: This is a special review serving as a throwback to our high school selves and their favorite books. Have you ever had an intensely realistic dream that you forget the moment you wake up, only to forever feel as though you’d had an epiphany about the meaning of life, never able to remember… More This Book Is Full of Spiders: Seriously Dude, Don’t Touch It! Review by Rebecca Nelson

We Need Diverse Books

March 27, 2015

If you haven’t heard about it, it’s time to change that. The “We Need Diverse Books” Campaign is an amazing campaign that started advocating for diverse books in 2014 on Twitter by Ellen Oh and Malinda Lo. They spoke of taking action that there weren’t many diverse books on the market for children’s literature. Once… More We Need Diverse Books