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Interview: Second Lady Jill Biden Talks About Her New Picture Book
Inspired by real family events, and told through the eyes of her granddaughter Natalie, Second Lady Jill Biden’s Don’t Forget, God Bless Our Troops (S & S, 2012) tells the story of what life was...
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SLJ Talks to S.E. Hinton On ‘The Outsiders’ Turning 45
S.E. Hinton became a household name in the 1960s when she wrote The Outsiders (Viking, 1967) as a sophomore at Oklahoma’s Will Rogers High School. Many believe the book—based on two rival gangs at her...
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Straighten Up and Fly Right: Elizabeth Wein’s new spy thriller will break...
Photograph by David Ho Your novel Code Name Verity begins after a British plane piloted by Maddie crashes into Nazi-occupied France. It’s tough to talk about the story without giving too much away....
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Interview: SLJ Talks to Former NFLer Tim Green about His Latest Novel
Former NFL defensive end and practicing lawyer Tim Green discusses his latest novel, Unstoppable(HarperCollins, 2012), which was inspired by real-life cancer survivors, including Jeffrey Keith, who at...
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SLJ’s SummerTeen Speaker: Gareth Hinds
SLJ‘s online event, SummerTeen: A Celebration of Young Adult Books, is just one month away, and we’ve asked some of your favorite participating authors a few questions in advance of the August 9 show....
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SLJ’s SummerTeen Speaker: Earl Sewell
Earl Sewell is just one of the many blockbuster authors scheduled to speak at SLJ‘s August 9 online event, SummerTeen: A Celebration of Young Adult Books. We caught up with Sewell, whose novels and...
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SLJ’s SummerTeen Speaker: A.S. King
It took A.S. King (the A.S. stands for Amy Sarig) 15 years and more than seven novels to finally get published. Now, the YA writer can’t seem to get enough praise for her work—Everybody Sees the Ants,...
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SLJ’s SummerTeen Speaker: Johan Harstad
Johan Harstad’s debut novel, Buzz Aldrin, What Happened to You in All the Confusion?, was originally published in his native Norway in 2005 and successfully made its way to 11 countries before being...
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SLJ’s SummerTeen Speaker: Barry Lyga
Having spent his teen years immersed in comic books, Barry Lyga worked for a decade as marketing manager at Diamond Comic Distributors before publishing his first novel, The Astonishing Adventures of...
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SLJ’s SummerTeen Speaker: Sean Michael Wilson
Scottish comic book writer Sean Michael Wilson has more than a dozen western-style graphic novels and manga-style books released by U.S., U.K. and Japanese publishers (his manga have even been...
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SLJ’s SummerTeen Speaker: Karen Healey
As a kid, New Zealand-born author Karen Healey wanted to be an astronaut or a dinosaur-hunting cowgirl—but not a writer. Things changed when she was bullied, and she started making up fascinating...
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SLJ’s SummerTeen Speaker: Pete Hautman
Pete Hautman is the author of Godless, the 2004 National Book Award-winner in the category of young people’s literature, and most recently LA Times Book Prize winner The Big Crunch, as well as many...
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SLJ’s SummerTeen Speaker: Cecil Castellucci
When Cecil Castellucci was in the indie rock band Nerdy Girl, she went by the name of Cecil Seaskull. Now the author of books and graphic novels for young adults has a new release, The Year of the...
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SLJ SummerTeen Author Interviews
We’ve been talking to the great authors who will be part of our SummerTeen virtual event on August 9. Read on if you missed a few or just want to review as you get prepped for this summer...
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Tad Hills Talks About Rocket Writes a Story
Photo: Random House SLJ caught up with author-illustrator Tad Hills about Rocket Writes a Story (Random, 2012), which follows a loveable dog as he tries to write his own book, and is the sequel to the...
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My, How You’ve Changed!: Jason Chin’s ‘Island’ Charts the Galápagos’s...
Photograph by Corey Hendrickson. Island: A Story of the Galápagos is packed with fascinating, well-researched facts about this archipelago and your exquisite paintings of its unique flora and fauna....
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Q&A: Meet the Creator of Ms. Marvel, the First Female American-Muslim Superhero
Variant cover of Ms. Marvel/Marvel Teenager Kamala Khan argues with her parents about why she can’t go to parties, slogs through her homework, and is unsure of herself just like any typical New Jersey...
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One-on-one with the legendary Raffi | ClefNotes
Raffi. Owl Singalong. Approx. 37 min. Rounder. 2016. $14.98. PreS-Gr 3–Beluga grads (Raffi’s term for fans who are now adults) and other fans will be happy to hear that Canadian troubadour Raffi is...
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Q&A with Grammy Winner Tim Kubart | ClefNotes
Tim Kubart, the host of Sunny Side Up on 24-hour preschool TV channel Sprout, is internationally known as Tambourine Guy on the wildly popular online music show Postmodern Jukebox (PMJ), and in...
View ArticleHitting the Road with Sheba Karim: The YA Author Talks Islamophobia,...
Sheba Karim discusses her riotously funny novel Mariam Sharma Hits the Road and what it's like to write a road trip book from the perspective of a marginalized character.
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