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7 (more) questions with . . . Ian Rankin

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Back in March, BookPage chatted with internationally best-selling author Ian Rankin about The Complaints, our Read more »
7 questions with . . . Timothy Hallinan

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Whodunit columnist Bruce Tierney has reviewed four of Timothy Hallinan's fantastic thrillers—and each one has earned Mystery of the Month. Read more »
7 questions with . . . Jo Nesbø

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Jo Nesbø has been called the next Stieg Larsson, and this month, our Whodunit columnist calls his newest thriller, Phantom, "one of the fine Read more »
7 questions with . . . Anna Randol

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In a month like February, when there are so many new romances to highlight (from our Valentine's Day Read more »
7 questions with . . . Beth Kendrick

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Our Top Pick in Romance for May 2013 is Beth Kendrick's funny and charming new contemporary romance, The Week Before the We Read more »
7 Questions with . . . Cindy Gerard

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Our August 2011 Romance of the Month seriously smolders. It's a double tap of sex and danger, and our romance columnist loved it: "Breathtaking suspense and pulse-pounding passion make this a wow of a read." Read more »
7 Questions with . . . Colleen Gleason

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Author of more than 15 books, Colleen Gleason chatted with us to introduce the next installment of her Regency Draculia series, The Vampire Narcise. Read more »
7 Questions with . . . Dana Haynes

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Breaking Point, the sequel to Dana Haynes' Crashers, is a graphic and violent adrenalin Read more »
7 questions with . . . Daniel Friedman

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The title of Daniel Friedman's debut mystery—Don't Ever Get Old—should probably be read in your best Clint Eastwood impersonation. Read more »
7 questions with . . . David Downing

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It's so hard to be a good guy when Russians ask you to spy for them in postwar Berlin, especially when you owe those Russians big time—but David Downing's character John Russell does Read more »
7 questions with . . . David Mark

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An exceptionally unusual premise and the strong characterization of a gentle giant hero deliver the old one-two in the November Read more »
7 questions with . . . Elizabeth Boyle

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The newest in Elizabeth Boyle’s popular Rhymes With Love series, And the Miss Ran Away With the Rake, will charm fans of historical romance with the tale of Miss Daphne Dale Read more »
7 questions with . . . Elizabeth Hoyt

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Our July 2012 Romance of the Month is the fourth installment in Elizabeth Hoyt's sizzling Maiden Lane series, Thief Read more »
7 questions with . . . Elizabeth Lowell

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Whether you actually believe the world is going to end or think it's a silly old myth, the year 2012 has always had a certain doomsday quality to it. Read more »
7 questions with . . . Eloisa James

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The Ugly Duchess, the September 2012 Top Pick in Romance, is a sexy, senusal Regency fairy tale that romance colum Read more »
7 Questions with . . . Håkan Nesser

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Håkan Nesser's newest thriller, The Inspector and Silence, is "expertly crafted" and an "absolute must." Fourteen years after its original publication... Read more »
7 Questions with . . . Jaci Burton

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Our November 2011 Romance column has smoldering cowboys and happy-ending romance, but for readers looking for some serious spice, th Read more »
7 questions with . . . James Thompson

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James Thompson, Finland’s best-selling international crime writer, returns with another high-stakes Inspector Vaara mystery, Helsinki Blood. Read more »
7 questions with . . . Jayne Ann Krentz

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It's been said that the mind is the sexiest part of the human body, and that's never truer than in Jayne Ann Krentz's Dark Legacy series. Read more »
7 questions with . . . Jens Lapidus

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If you thought Scandinavian thrillers couldn't get any better, think again. Read more »
7 questions with . . . Julia London

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Historical romance The Last Debutante is BookPage's March 2013 Top Pick in Romance. Read more »
7 questions with . . . Jussi Adler-Olsen

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Copenhagen cold case investigator Carl Mørck rocketed onto the Scandinavian noir scene with last year's The Keeper of Read more »
7 Questions with . . . Karen Robards

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Karen Robards, author of Justice (as well as 39 other books and a novella . . . and counting!), gives us a sneak-peek into her writing world. Read more »
7 questions with . . . Lachlan Smith

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Lachlan Smith's debut thriller Bear Is Broken introduces fledgling attorney Leo Maxwell, who is th Read more »
7 Questions with . . . Lars Kepler

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The Hypnotist, the debut thriller from author Lars Kepler, is proof that there is plenty of room for even more great Swedish crime writers. Read more »
7 Questions with . . . Laura Griffin

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The latest novel from Laura Griffin's Tracers series has all the chemistry and forensic detail to make it an easy choice for our Top Rom Read more »
7 questions with . . . Leighton Gage

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Leighton Gage's Perfect Hatred, the newest installment in his series featuring Brazilian Federal Police Inspector Mario Silva, is BookPage's Read more »
7 questions with . . . Linda Castillo

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The July 2012 Women of Mystery are getting plenty of attention, but only one gets to be our Top Pick. Read more »
7 questions with . . . Lisa Kleypas

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Magical realism and breathtaking contemporary romance converge in the newest from Lisa Kleypas, Dream Lake. Read more »
7 Questions with . . . Louise Penny

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Louise Penny's newest thriller A Trick of the Light is our top Whodunit pick for September. Read more »
7 questions with . . . Margaret Maron

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Margaret Maron's popular Deborah Knott mystery series is a mix of "homespun sweetness" and "edginess," a combination that works so well that Read more »
7 questions with . . . Mary Burton

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Mary Burton's new romantic suspense The Seventh Victim is our February 2013 Romance of the Month, and Romance colum Read more »
7 questions with . . . Megan Mulry

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Megan Mulry's stylish debut, A Royal Pain, is an unusual fairy tale, but one romance columnist Christie Ridgw Read more »
7 questions with . . . Michael Robotham

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BookPage's March 2012 Mystery of the Month is Michael Robotham's newest nail-biter, Bleed for Me. Read more »
7 Questions with . . . Peter Spiegelman

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Peter Spiegelman's fourth novel, Thick as Thieves, is one hell of a heist thriller and one of our Who Read more »
7 questions with . . . Richard Crompton

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Richard Crompton's debut mystery novel, Hour of the Red God, is "character-driven from the get-go" according to our Whodunit columnist Bruce Tierney. Read more »
7 questions with . . . Robyn Carr

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Our December 2012 Top Pick in Romance is a tale of an inescapable connection from "an author deft at mining deep emotion.& Read more »
7 questions with . . . Susan Mallery

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Our June 2013 Top Pick in Romance is Just One Kiss, the newest contemporary romance set in Susan Mallery's beloved fi Read more »
7 Questions with . . . Susanna Kearsley

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The October 2011 Romance of the Month tells the story of a love that transcends space and time. Read more »
7 questions with . . . Suzanne Brockmann

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There's a special place in romance columnist Christie Ridgway's heart for the love stories of Navy SEALs, so when one is chosen as Romance of the Month, it's the cr Read more »
7 questions with . . . Taylor Stevens

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Writing 101 typically dictates, "Write what you know." This was never so true as for Taylor Stevens, whose second Vanessa Michael Munroe novel, The Innocent, is featured Read more »
7 questions with . . . Teresa Medeiros

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The Pleasure of Your Kiss, the newest historical romance from Teresa Medeiros and our January 2012 Romance of the Month, is Read more »
7 questions with . . . William Landay

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Whodunit columnist Bruce Tierney reads more than his share of creepy books, so when he says a novel is sure to be "one of the most disturbing books of the year," he means it. Read more »
7 Questions with . . . Zoran Drvenkar

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German novelist Zoran Drvenkar's thriller Sorry just might be the "Mystery of the Year," according to our Read more »
A haunting fairy tale in the moors

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The creepiest and oldest of legends have a way of prickling the spine and turning dark nights into the haunted unknown. Read more »
A heroine worthy of both Jane Austen and Indiana Jones

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It’s Pride and Prejudice meets The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles. Read more »
A seemingly impossible love story

Issue: May 2011
It all begins with the impossible—a white woman and an African-American man are in love in 1968. Read more »
A small bunny with a big heart

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It is no surprise that David Petersen (creator of the Eisner Award-winning comic book series Mouse Guard) attributes his inspiration to cartoons, comics and tree-climbing. Read more »
A story shared by mother and daughter becomes every girl's adventure

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It all started in a doctor’s office more than 20 years ago. Alice Randall (The Wind Done Gone, Ada’s Rules) and her daughter, Caroline Randall Williams (now 25), filled their hour-long wait not with old editions of Highlights magazine, but instead with their own story of a little black princess on a magical island. Read more »
A swashbuckling, time-traveling adventure

Issue: March 2011
Get ready for a pirate adventure unlike any other, with fierce pirate queens, mystical swords and a surprisingly hefty dose of humanitarian feeling. Read more »
A world of fantasy and magic

Issue: February 2011
Imagine a place so wild and fantastical that even the characters who inhabit this strange world can lose themselves in the magic around them. Read more »
Animal desires

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Deep in the Louisiana bayou, something creeps . . . and it lies just beneath Saria Boudreaux’s skin. She knows the ins and outs of the swamp, and not even a gator could ever scare her. Read more »
Animals on stage

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Winter doldrums are wreaking havoc on the zoo animals of Springfield, turning once-chipper critters into grumps. “Owls did not give a hoot. / Pandas quit being cute. Read more »
Auel's epic series continues

Issue: April 2011
For more than 20 years, Jean M. Auel has enthralled readers with her prehistoric novels in the Earth’s Children series, starting with The Clan of the Cave Bear, where Auel first introduced the enigmatic outsider Ayla. The series has followed Ayla through several Ice Age European cultures, and her strange accent, animal companions and foreign knowledge have always placed . . . Read more »
Bolitar adventures hit high school

Issue: September 2011
Harlan Coben’s young adult debut might be a new direction for the internationally best-selling author, but Shelter treads familiar and much-loved terrain. Read more »
Bringing Hugo to life

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All the magic of The Invention of Hugo Cabret, the Caldecott Medal-winning story of the little boy who lives in the walls of a Paris train station, comes alive in The Hugo Movie Companion. Brian Selznick takes readers behind the scenes of Hugo . . . Read more »
Cleopatra’s daughter comes into her own

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Many know the story of Cleopatra, but few know of her daughter, Cleopatra Selene, whose wholly dark life is captured in Vicky Alvear Shecter’s Cleopatra’s Moon. Read more »
Come together now

Issue: May 2011
The latest novel from PEN/Faulkner nominee Lorraine López revolves around a lost young woman who hopes to find peace and purpose by opening her Southern California home to wayward souls. We asked her a few questions about her new work, Latin-American literature and more. Read more »
Finding hope and solace in books

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Travis Roberts is a quiet, angry 13-year-old who can’t read. He uses his fists more than his mouth and is always looking to punch someone, including his grandpa. Read more »
Fleeing a marriage, finding yourself

Issue: June 2011
In “Song of Myself” from Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman writes, “Do I contradict myself? Read more »
Fleeting chances to take a stand

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There are two Henning Mankells: One is doyen of the Swedish suspense genre and creator of the popular Kurt Wallander mystery series; the other contemplates the painful racial relationships between Read more »
Florida: Stranger than fiction

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Seen through Carl Hiaasen’s eyes, Florida is far from paradise. Instead, it is pockmarked with fat-cat businessmen, bumbling tourists, corrupt politicians and sunburned rednecks . . . Read more »
Games vs. reality

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Haijin is a Japanese word that literally means “cripple,” but it colloquially refers to gamers who spend so much time playing that their alternate realities take precedence ove Read more »
Giving Zelda ‘a fair shake’ in a fictional memoir

Issue: April 2013
Popular understanding of Zelda Fitzgerald has her pegged as something between two of F. Scott’s notorious female characters: devastating Rosalind from This Side of Paradise and vacuous Gloria from The Beautiful and Damned. Add a dollop of insanity, and that’s our Zelda. But as Therese Anne Fowler reveals in her new novel, Z, that’s not the whole story. Read more »
Holding up a mirror

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Talking to YA author Paul Volponi is exactly like you would expect: He’s a perpetual teacher, endlessly encouraging, but the edge in his New York accent suggests he’s ready to throw down on the court at any moment. Read more »
In Darren Shan’s world, zombies are the least of our worries

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Darren Shan has been scaring young readers for over a decade—and adults for even longer. His newest book, Zom-B, launches a new 12-book teen horror series that promises new installments every three months. Read more »
Is one summer long enough to rethink your whole life?

Issue: December 2010
Delilah Hannaford’s life is a complete mess. Read more »
Jackie Collins is hot, hot, hot!

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No one does sex, glam and drama like Jackie Collins. Read more »
Just one piece of a wonderful world

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A young boy named Baz longs to see the world beyond his dusty village, so when he is apprenticed as a weaver, he believes his life has finally begun. Read more »
Killer suspense from Lisa Jackson

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In her latest novel, You Don't Want to Know, Lisa Jackson brings a woman's greatest nightmare to life: What if your family told you your child was dead, but you didn't Read more »
Lambs on the run

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Sheep are supposed to be easy to herd, but not for Farmer McFitt, whose slumbers have allowed 10 mischievous sheep to escape and scatter all across town. Read more »
London's bloody history returns with thriller master David Morrell

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Author David Morrell, who has been called “the father of the modern action novel,” may be best known as the creator of Rambo, the scarred American soldier who first appeared in Morrell& Read more »
More than just a pretty face

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Elizabeth Taylor may be best remembered for her physical appearance—her curves, her eyes, her weight gain in later life—but M.G. Read more »
Murder most foul enters Austen's world

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What happens when one of contemporary crime fiction's most celebrated authors takes on one of the most beloved classics of all time? Read more »
Never underestimate a unique mind

Issue: March 2013
Rather than looking ahead to a bleak future, Gardner imagines what the 1950s would have been like if the Allies had lost World War II. Read more »
New destinations for your life list

Issue: December 2011
Patricia Schultz’s 1,000 Places to See Before You Die is the world’s best-selling travel book, providing advice on how to explore every corner of the globe. Read more »
One boy’s doomsday

Issue: November 2010
Rex Zero has faced the end of the world before, but never like this. His family is moving (again), which only makes living during the Cold War all the more difficult. Read more »
One woman's search for a spiritual center

Issue: May 2011
PEN/Faulkner Award finalist Lorraine López, author of the critically acclaimed The Gifted Gabaldón Sisters, has a talent for crafting characters so fleshed out that they could be your sist Read more »
Pawns in a sinister game of politics and finance

Issue: October 2010
The newest addition to John le Carré’s extensive list of novels proves that this master of the espionage genre is still at the height of his authorial powers. Read more »
Pushing the boundaries for teens

Issue: January 2011
Amy was supposed to spend 300 years as a cryogenically frozen passenger on the spaceship Godspeed. Read more »
Radioactive cocktail brings on 50 year hangover

Issue: February 2011
There’s a killer stalking the streets of suburban Tallahassee. She’s exacting her revenge for a 50-year-old injustice with cool, calculated steps—well, more like a shuffle. Read more »
Robots versus humanity

Issue: July 2011
Our cars can parallel park themselves. Our vacuums can zoom independently around the carpet. Read more »
Safety in numbers

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Seven junkyard hamsters have outgrown their little hole and must face the quest of a lifetime in the adorable new picture book A Place to Call Home. Read more »
Searching for a missing friend—and finding herself

Issue: August 2010
On September 11, 2001, many people “knew someone”: someone who was in the Towers, someone who disappeared that morning. Ingrid was a someone—or was she? Read more »
Simple, extraordinary lives

Issue: January 2011
In England in 1862, there was little cure for the racking, bloody crawl of tuberculosis. Read more »
Six-stringed salvation

Issue: November 2010
Jonathan stands at the edge of a bridge, wobbling, mere seconds from toppling to his death. Read more »
Smart chicks and superstitions

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The first two installments of Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl’s wildly popular Beautiful Creatures series introduced a group of extraordinary teenagers in small-town Gatlin, South Carolina. Read more »
Summer fun feels "just right"

Issue: August 2011
The little bear family from Karel Hayes’ charming picture book The Winter Visitors returns, but this time the lakeside cabin they visit isn’t a deserted retreat. Read more »
Swinging along on a colorful trip

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The world feels completely free when one little girl climbs aboard a swing and suddenly finds herself flying in a world of colors, as though the different hues were a bright galaxy from her imagina Read more »
Teenage dreams are hard to beat

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Now that she's an author herself, former book publicist Elizabeth Eulberg has had some trouble getting used to the spotlight, despite the fact that she's comfortable singing karaoke—and she hopes Pat Benatar will invite her on stage someday to sing “Hit Me With Your Best Shot.” Read more »
The age of the end of innocence

Issue: January 2011
Every 16-year-old girl gets one—the XVI tattoo. It’s for protection, it’s a symbol of female status, or it’s a curse, depending on who you ask. Read more »
The American Colonies provide the backdrop for an absorbing prequel

Issue: November 2010
Kathleen Kent has a unique talent for early American storytelling, as proven by the smash success of her 2008 debut novel, The Heretic’s Daughter. Kent is back with a prequel to her Read more »
The battle for modern India rages on

Issue: October 2011
Aravind Adiga emerged as a powerful new voice in literature with his debut The White Tiger, a tale of Read more »
The big fight

Issue: April 2011
It might seem impossible that one man could bring together an entire community, but Joe Louis, the “Brown Bomber” of pounding punches and focused fighting, did just that. Read more »
The design revolution is at hand

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It all began in 2004—a writer in Brooklyn created a blog to fill with her design ideas, never expecting it to become an online sensation. Read more »
The phone call that changes everything

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It’s been said that there’s only a certain amount of luck in the world, and some people have more of it than others. Read more »
The smile heard 'round the world

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David Ezra Stein sits poolside, hunched over his composition notebook and safely tucked in the shade of an umbrella. This is sunny California—ALA 2012 in Anaheim—and Stein, a lifelong New Yorker, is a little out of his element. Read more »
The story of Puerto Rico

Issue: July 2011
Esmeralda Santiago captured readers’ hearts in 1994 with her memoir, When I Was Puerto Rican, and was heralded for her proud account of her Nuyorican upbringing and her deep connecti Read more »
This land is our land

Issue: October 2012
Stripped of Boyle’s characteristic irony and comedy, San Miguel allows human frailty to stand, Ahab-like, in stark contrast to a hostile environment. Read more »
United by death and the promise of new life

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Pain makes us human, and the acceptance of this harsh reality makes us a family—that is the idea behind How to Save a Life. Author Sara Zarr captures real, unsentimental emotions as two teen girls from opposite worlds are thrust together at the cusp of womanhood. Read more »
We're all about to die

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Josh Bazell's first novel, Beat the Reaper, introduced readers to Pietro Brnwa, a former mob hitman who's doing his best to turn his life around in a New York hospital—but finds it difficult with his patients trying to kill him. Read more »
When the dead rise, teens rise above it

Issue: October 2010
What kid wouldn’t love to whack some zombies? Slaughter some bumbling, disintegrating bodies with gnashing teeth? Kill them before they kill you? Read more »
Young love and fortune's fools

Issue: March 2013
Romeo and Juliet is often the first Shakespearean play students read, partially because it’s one of his easier works to grasp (though your average eighth grader may find that hard to believe), but also because the star-crossed lovers are so young: Juliet is 13, and Romeo is not much older. But can young readers really get it? Read more »

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