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Just in case you weren’t completely exhausted by the Kardashian-Jenner clan yet, amazing momager Kris Jenner seems to have found another avenue by which to exploit her children. This time, she’s moving into the world of young adult fiction with her two youngest daughters, Kendall and Kylie. More
The first time I brought a YA book to my grandmother to read to me, she told me it was stupid. More
Back to school may be approaching but that doesn’t mean children should wait until then to crack the books. Summer reading can give children the opportunity to engage with books and consider plot lines and characters in a different way than in academic setting. Approaching their teen years, tweens are now able to interpret, understand, and appreciate literature on a slightly more advanced level. But even if you’ve been able to successfully get your kids reading some classics, you may have realized that many of them either prominently feature male protagonist or present rather two-dimensional female heroines.
Consider then this list of books when conveying to your tween that female heroines can be just as complex, brave, and showstopping. More
Recently there was an article published in The Wall Street Journal criticizing Young Adult literature for being too dark. I think the author might have a slight heart attack if they read the first few chapters of Lisa McMann‘s new middle grade book, The Unwanteds.
In a gray, regulated world reminiscent of the clone-suburbia of A Wrinkle of Time, the people of Quill are grouped into three categories once they turn 13: Wanteds, Necessaries, and Unwanteds. The Wanteds, deemed the strongest and most intelligent, are educated with hopes of becoming part of the Quillitary, maintaining their troops and their defenses against enemies being the most important thing to the people of Quill. The Necessaries perform manual labor in order to keep the citizens of Quill in food and water, and the Unwanteds, who are identified and deemed unworthy by exhibiting any signs of creativity or emotion, are executed, which should make eighth grade seem a lot brighter to young readers.
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Who remembers the V.C. Andrews series? You know what I’m talking about — Flowers in the Attic? I seem to recall there were some ghastly scenes dealing with torture, incest, cannibalism of a type, etc. It’s exciting, certainly, but not exactly focused on higher things. And I am still confused about why my 6th-grade teacher gave me a Sidney Sheldon book to read. She was a fantastic teacher and I’m sure she was exasperated with me and my tendency to read everything. But still, Sidney Sheldon is not really appropriate for a 12-year-old. More
