Maybe you’ve noticed, Young Adult literature is on fire right now. It’s been around forever, Nancy Drew and Sweet Valley High were certainly YA, but it feels like only in the last decade or so that YA has really come into its own as a subgenre {read more}

Raised in landlocked Kansas, I have an almost pathological fear of the water and a tendency to motion sickness, therefore a book about a trans-Pacific sailing voyage would not seem the obvious choice for me. But it was recommended by an author I have {read more}