Celebrate: AAPI
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Celebrate: AAPI

Fast Facts @ Asian American-Pacific Islander Heritage Month May was annually designated as Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month in 1992 AAPI Heritage Month celebrates the unique experiences of all AAPI immigrants and citizens in the United States and their distinctive histories, traditions and cultures Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders are the fastest growing group in the United States…

Series Spotlight: Gone
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Series Spotlight: Gone

Looking to get lost in a new adventure? Let’s dive deep. Series Spotlight highlights various Teen/YA Book Series. (Titles are listed in series order). This time we highlight the Gone series by Michael Grant. Michael Grant is the evil genius of YA Fiction. By his own admission he sets out to scare his readers. That…

Series Spotlight: Fable
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Series Spotlight: Fable

Looking to get lost in a new adventure? Let’s dive deep. Series Spotlight highlights various Teen/YA Book Series. (Titles are listed in series order). This time we highlight the Fable series written by Adrienne Young. Adrienne Young is the New York Times, USA Today, and Indie list bestselling author of Sky in the Deep, The…

New Teen Fiction – February
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New Teen Fiction – February

I Must Betray You Ruta Sepetys Romania, 1989. Communist regimes are crumbling across Europe. Seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu dreams of becoming a writer, but Romanians aren’t free to dream; they are bound by rules and force. Amidst the tyrannical dictatorship of Nicolae Ceaușescu in a country governed by isolation and fear, Cristian is blackmailed by the…