To go with the creativity buzzzing through this week’s reading recs on the slide, here are three great titles that feature characters who enjoy writing as a pastime in YA novels: Haunt Me, Liz Kessler In this beautifully-written dual-narrative romance, writing is a key thing joining the two together. Joe wakes up to find his […]
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Reading Recommendations Slide 10: Family Drama
Four contemporary reads dealing with family drama for this week. All feature non-traditional families, families in crisis and teens dealing with the fallout and/or taking things into their own hands. For those of you working with Learning Power/Four Rs, it’s worth knowing that there’s lots of resilience being shown/developed in these stories, and plenty of […]
Mothers in Hidden Among Us and The Hidden Princess – guest post from Katy Moran
Today, Katy Moran, author of Hidden Among Us and The Hidden Princess, is here to talk about mothers in YA novels and specifically in her Hidden duo. If you haven’t read these novels, I would definitely recommend them. Mothers are often necessarily absent from YA fiction. Usually, you can’t get your heroine or hero into the […]