Category: YA Literature

— Reviews, YA Literature —

Moving Forward, Moving Back: Reading Jason Odell Williams’ Personal Statement

October 16, 2014

  We’ve all been there. We reached the final year of high school and discovered the college, the school, the job, the career that we wanted, and we attempted to move forward. We did everything we thought we needed to do—and more—to ensure that we would land one of the open seats in the version… Read More Moving Forward, Moving Back: Reading Jason Odell Williams’ Personal Statement

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The Power of Grief, The Power of Hallucination, The Power of YA Literature: Reading Rebekah Crane’s Aspen

July 28, 2014

  Let me point one fact out from the beginning: I admire young adult literature, and I believe it can be extremely powerful when the central characters are confident, self-possessed individuals, dealing with both personal and more widely-recognized issues. Rebekah Crane’s Aspen does not fall short of this; rather, as I will delve into in… Read More The Power of Grief, The Power of Hallucination, The Power of YA Literature: Reading Rebekah Crane’s Aspen

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