How beautiful the turning of the year! If, like many of us, you made a resolution to read more books...
A Look at Gender in YA Fiction I’ve always been interested in gender and how it intersects with sexuality. It’s...
In recognition of World’s AIDS Day (December 1), Borders sponsored special readings and performances to benefit Lifebeat, a music industry nonprofit...
Dirty Puppets, Stray Cats & Stage Collaborations The Spotlight features news about (and sometimes interviews with) allies who are active...
Our friends at The American Library Association are including the newly-created Stonewall Children’s and Young Adult Literature Award to the...
This month two celebrity memoirs—Ricky Martin‘s Me and Portia de Rossi‘s Unbearable Lightness—will make likely bestsellers. Expect to see Martin...
The highly influential and much imitated David Levithan and Rachel Cohn have changed the young adult genre in new, exciting...
With LGBT teen suicide sadly–but finally–getting the attention of the mainstream media and general public, certain authors are getting increased...
Last week, memoirist Dan Savage launched a video channel on YouTube to support teens struggling with bullies and suicide. In...
UDPATED: The holiday season is months away, but already publishers have started promoting their big seasonal reads, including two highly...
