Sometimes text alone doesn’t do justice to the YA genre, with all its quirkiness and its emphasis on relationships, feelings, and all the gooey bits that make us tick. The format of graphic novels, and their visual, visceral freedom, can be a great fit for the in between, disorderly gray areas the genre relishes. With that in […]
High school is a near-universal experience to which we can all relate. It’s also a complicated, messy time in life in which one grows from the end of childhood to the cusp of adulthood, so there’s a lot of feelings to unpack. The result is that hundreds of books have been written about high school…but […]
At some point in our childhoods, most of us have had the joy, the fear, and occasionally the embarrassment of being on stage. For some, playing Martha Washington in the second grade play is as far as our acting careers go. But others get bit by the acting bug and go on to enjoy many […]
Summer is officially over, and school is back in full swing. And sadly, no amount of shopping for bullet journal supplies can take the place of getting to shop for a backpack full of fresh, new school supplies. So bust out your old yearbooks, see if you can still fit into your shiny purple prom […]
