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Together We Can Be Custodians

Jeremy Scott talks with Chapter 16 about his second YA superhero novel, Strings

…works with his telepathic best friend, Henry, who uses a wheelchair to get around. In the second installment, Strings, the teens must deal with a national government hostile to the…

The Gift of the Magis

I wanted a bike — I got a chair

…on Christmas morning, what to my wondering eyes did appear but something decidedly not-a-bike. Something else that rolls. I knew what it was instantly. Even shrouded beneath a bedsheet, the…

Trapped in the Wrong Body

Meredith Russo’s new YA novel asks what you should do when everybody who “knows” you is wrong

…anyone the truth—not her father, still lost in his grief; not her one female friend, Jasmine; and not even her best friend, Eric, who shares her birthday. While both Morgan…

Making Magic

Cressida Cowell brings readers the second installment in The Wizards of Once series

…and therefore books are uniquely effective at helping children develop empathy, the quality of “walking around in someone else’s skin,” to quote To Kill a Mockingbird. This is one of…

Welcome to the Machine

Characters come of age in the secret city of Oak Ridge in Janet Beard’s The Atomic City Girls

…And even the more over-the-top details in The Atomic City Girls are supported by an unusual—but highly effective—sort of documentation for a novel: declassified Department of Energy photographs illustrate every…

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