teens

Books, Writing

Road Trip Wednesday: Retelling Fables and Stories

Road Trip Wednesday is a ‘Blog Carnival,’ where YA Highway’s contributors post a weekly writing- or reading-related question that begs to be answered. In the comments, you can hop from destination to destination and get everybody’s unique take on the topic. This Week’s Topic In honor of this month’s Bookmobile book, Marissa Meyer’s Cinder, name […]

Books

Teaser Tuesday: Inbetween by Tara Fuller (September 18, 2012)

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following: • Grab your current read • Open to a random page • Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page • BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away!

Books, Home & Family, Writing

Diversity and Segregation on Bookshelves

My husband and I had a conversation about diversity and racism the other day. Our son (8 years old) is one of just a few white kids in his circle of friends, but he doesn’t even notice. He doesn’t care whether his friends are black, white, indian, or anything else. They’re just … *gasp*… people.

Scroll to Top