Q&A: Nicola Yoon On The Everything, Everything Film, Diversity In YA, And Loving Love

Author Nicola Yoon on the film adaptation of her book ‘Everything, Everything,’ the importance of diverse representation in young adult literature, and why she’ll always write about love

Read An Excerpt of Darcie Wilder’s Literally Show Me A Healthy Person

Darcie Wilder’s second book, Literally Show Me A Healthy Person, is a stylized, free-flowing collection of thoughts. In the excerpt below, the voice of @MTVNews waxes about Britney Spears, mortality, and relationships. the skin on the tops of my hands are splitting apart. just like my parents did. and their parents before them ’stronger to… Read more »

Q&A: Angie Thomas On The Hate U Give, Black Lives Matter, And Writing An ‘Unapologetic Black Girl Book’

Angie Thomas’s No. 1 New York Times best-selling debut, The Hate U Give, is a groundbreaking young-adult novel about an ordinary girl in extraordinary circumstances. Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter is living in two different worlds: her mostly black, poor neighborhood, and the mostly white upper-class private school that she attends. The balance between these two worlds… Read more »