Over on Book Riot this week…

 

• A look at the top-selling 2016 YA titles from Amazon in each state. I’m curious: any other data like this you’d be interested in?

 

• 60 awesome bookish necklaces.

 

• A round-up of social justice themed YA fiction. Obviously, hardly scratching the surface here, but a starting place nonetheless.

 

Over on Book Riot this week..

 

• A round-up of YA memoirs worth reading.

 

• The 1939 vocabulary textbooks I had in one of my high school English classes and how that little beast changed my life.

 

Over on Book Riot this week…

 

• Here’s your round-up of forthcoming YA books. All 170 will hit shelves between July and September.

 

• This week’s themed YA book list is all about aliens. There is a microtrend of aliens emerging again, and it’s one I know that I welcome.

 

Here’s a reminder that there’s a bookstore gift card up for grabs for dropping a short review of Here We Are on Amazon. You can read all of the details for this painless (seriously!) giveaway here.

 

I’ve been keeping busy over on Book Riot this week:

 

• A ranking of the longest YA books published in English.  Perfect for when you want some big. thick reading.

 

• Perhaps one of my favorite pieces of writing in a while: what would Harry Potter have been like if Hermione had had some girl friends in her circle?

 

• And then we have a look at tons of teen photographers in YA lit.

 

 

Over on Book Riot this week…

 

• Five more ways to be a power public library user

 

• In honor of the Solstice this week, YA books featuring “Sun” in the title. This would make such a fun display.

 

• A simple post but one I am a little sad more people didn’t jump in on — a round-up of things I love about books and reading. Will you share some of yours? It’s a literal literary love fest.

 

• Swimsuits for superhero/ines.

 

Going to ALA this weekend? Here’s when and where you can see me:

 

 

 

I’m also beyond honored to share that Here We Are: Feminism For The Real World was named one of the titles as part of the Girls of Summer reading list.