Bloomsbury Publishing found themselves in trouble recently when bloggers revealed that the teen novel Magic Under Glass by Jaclyn Dolamore,  which is about Nimira, a “dark-skinned” girl, features a white model on the cover. Want to see it for yourself?  Here’s the controversial cover along with a book trailer that shows what the author imagined the main character looking like: As news [...]

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This week the American Library Association announced their Youth Media Award winners.   The Printz Award is given to a “book that exemplifies  literary excellence in young adult literature.”   It’s like the Grammys or Oscars of books for teens. The winner of the Printz is: Going Bovine by Libba Bray Cameron Smith, a disaffected sixteen year-old who, after    being diagnosed [...]

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If you’re tired of Twilight, and need some new supernatural romances to read, check out these fun titles: As You Wish by Jackson Pearce After her popular boyfriend announces that he’s gay and dumps her, Viola is miserable.  She feels like she’s become invisible, and wishes more than anything that she could fit in the way she used [...]

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