We sat down with debut author Ellen Cochrane to discuss how vital nonfiction is for young readers, the process of becoming a ...

The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), announces its 2026 Best Fiction for Young Adult (BFYA) book list. The list of 61 titles is ...

Kelley Blue, Portland Public Library, ME (Coordinator); Meg Bowie, Free Library of Philadelphia; Jean Broughton, Vancouver Public Library; Jacqueline Bush, Stratford Library Association; M’issa ...

We sit down with Printz Honor and Winner Angeline Boulley to discuss novels as a teaching opportunity, exploring and ...

Over the last four years we have seen many issues and even legislation related to libraries that serve teens and young adults. The next issue will cover a wide range of topics that apply to teen ...

Check out previous interviews in the One Thing Leads to Another series here. I don’t mind telling you that I was sophomore in high school in 1986. I was (as so many of us were) 15 going on confused, ...

This research presents the results of a survey of 833 U.S. adolescents, ages twelve to eighteen years old. It was hypothesized that teachers are assigning reading (rather than students self-selecting ...

Coordinator, Jodi Kruse; Stephanie Burdic, Kirsta Hutley, Marie LeJeune, Kaitlin Malixi, Melissa Palmer, Allison Riggs, Maryjean Riou, Gia Ruiz, Zoe Smolen, Emily ...

Numerous studies of adolescent reading preferences have found that fewer females than males are drawn to reading graphic novels. Why? Adolescent readers are diverse in gender and race/ethnicity as ...

Although the popularity of graphic novels is growing by leaps and bounds, there is currently little empirical research documenting their use with struggling male adolescent readers. The purpose of ...

During the 1940s and 1950s, comics were the most popular form of reading for young people in the United States, despite widespread disapproval for the medium by librarians and other guardians of ...

Coordinator, Jessica Lorentz Smith, Rachel Adams, Sarah Carnahan, Cathy DeCampli, Mike Fleming, Katie Guzan, Katrina Henderson, Emma K. McNamara, Julianne Novetsky ...