Nancy Garden, author, editor, LGBT activist, former theater maven and teacher, died suddenly on the morning of June 23 of a massive heart attack. She was 76. Read More
In the vast sea of YA novels, there used to be a dearth of stories for the LGBTQ community. Slowly...
"A librarian who read the book recently contacted me and said, 'I loved your book, I just wish there had been more gay content in it.' Of course my response was, 'Me TOO!' I wish I had been able to knock down the closet door at 16 and take the world by storm."
Aaron Harzler explores sexuality and religion in his young adult memoir Rapture Practice, published this month by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. Read More
This October author Kristin Cronn-Mills’ second novel Beautiful Music for Ugly Children (Flux) hit bookstore shelves. The young adult novel tells...
In the light of the recent revelation that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney may have bullied a fellow student in...
Yesterday morning, as the New York Times published their obituary of one of the world’s most beloved illustrators, Maurice Sendak, I watched...
Sendak’s drawings were engaging and his prose accessible, yet both conveyed more complexity than was seen at first glance. That complexity–and the fact that his stories were not always tales with happy endings–was what made Sendak’s work so compelling. He depicted the world in which children live as well as the one they visit--reality and imagination--as visceral, wild and sometimes dark places. Read More
Leah Petersen’s debut book is touching, emotional; a comfortably domestic love story set against the backdrop of politics in an...
Jesse, an out and proud high school aged lesbian, makes use of every computer font available to design a manifesto she papers over the high school walls. The manifesto, that composes the book’s introduction, demands justice for “Weirdos, Freaks, Queer Kids, Revolutionaries, Nerds, Dweebs, Misfits . . . ” and other “labeled” individuals. Read More
"What I hope The Miseducation of Cameron Post offers to its readers is a nuanced picture of a particular time and place as seen through the eyes of a young woman discovering her sexuality and her voice."
Author Emily M. Danforth sat down to answer a few questions about her new book, The Miseducation of Cameron Post , her thoughts on LGBTQ YA novels, and writing and growing up gay in Miles City, Montana.
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