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GTFOH with Magical Headaches: Chronic Pain in YA Fantasy
My medical records show frequent headaches and joint pain from the time I was able to articulate being in pain. When I was seventeen, a neck injury left me with a constant headache and more than fifteen days of migraine each month. It wasn’t until about six months ago —...
Nick Brooks Talks with Roger
Talks with Roger is a sponsored supplement to our free monthly e-newsletter, Notes from the Horn Book. To receive Notes, sign up here. Sponsored by Through a collection of intriguingly unreliable narrators, Promise Boys explores the landscape of Black and Latino teen lives. I talked with Nick Brooks about his first YA novel while...
Five questions for Rainbow Rowell
Photo: Augusten Burroughs. Rainbow Rowell's graphic-novel debut Pumpkinheads (Roaring Brook/First Second, 14 years and up) takes place in a theme park–like pumpkin patch (petting zoo, pumpkin slingshot, haunted graveyard, s'mores pit), where over the course of their last day at work, college-bound employees and BFFs Deja and Josiah search for...
Five questions for Tomi Adeyemi
Tomi Adeyemi. Photo: Elena Seibert.Tomi Adeyemi's high-octane fantasy Children of Blood and Bone (Holt, 14 years and up) begins with a bang (and, like much classic fantasy, with a map) and ends with a cliffhanger. In between, readers follow three narrators with shifting loyalties and motivations as they attempt to...
How I Discovered Young Adult Poetry - The Zena Sutherland Lecture
A couple of weeks ago, at a dinner with several poets, one of them said, “You’re lucky, Marilyn: you know how to write poems for the young adult audience.” I laughed and told him he was entirely wrong. I have absolutely no idea how to write for the young adult...
At least they aren’t reading romance
I have lots of conversations with teachers and teachers-in-training about what adolescents can, do, and should read. I don’t mind talking about what they can read or what they do read, but I get nervous when people start declaring what they should read, especially on their own time outside the...
YA Meets the Real: Fiction and Nonfiction That Take On the World
It began with hot summer nights.It was on hot summer nights — when it was far too hot to go outside, when all I wanted to do was sit under the throttle of a noisy air conditioner — that I got my best reading done as a teenager.There were two...
The Campaign for Shiny Futures
When Roger Sutton asked me why science fiction for teens did not get the same attention or respect as fantasy, I wanted to throw up my hands and say, “Because it’s written by the ignorant, published by the ignorant, and reviewed by the ignorant — present company included.”Here’s why. The...
Five questions for Steve Sheinkin
Steve Sheinkin's young adult history books — including Bomb: The Race to Build — and Steal — the World's Most Dangerous Weapon (a Newbery Honor Book, a National Book Award finalist, and the winner of both the Sibert Award and the YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults)...
Five questions for Lizzie Skurnick
Since 2013, Lizzie Skurnick Books (LSB; an imprint of Ig Publishing) has been handpicking and reissuing "the very best in young adult literature, from the classics of the 1930s and 1940s to the social novels of the 1970s and 1980s." The list gained a passel of built-in followers with the release...
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