Gabi Hernandez of Isabel Quintero’s Gabi, A Girl In Pieces is an unusual main character to meet in an American young adult novel. She looks
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No Ordinary Girl
Lucy Maud Montgomery is best known for Anne of Green Gables and Emily of New Moon, but she also penned a large number of short
What I Was Reading When A Stranger Assaulted Me #NotOkay
In October 2016, Michelle Obama delivered an incredibly powerful speech that captured how it feels to be a woman living in a society with men
George or Melissa? It Matters.
Have you read George by Alex Gino? If not, you should. It’s a heartwarming middle grade novel about a child who wants the world to
Motherhood: A Gap In The Literary Record & In Public Life
Recently, in the LA Review of Books, Lily Gurton-Wachter discussed her observation that there is a dearth of literature about pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood, saying:
The Challenges of Modernizing a Classic Novel (Alternatively titled, “Jane, Jane, & Jane”)
Patricia Park’s Re Jane—a contemporary Korean American retelling of Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre–had been collecting dust on my virtual “To Be Read” shelf for quite
