When the Moon Was Ours Anne-Marie McLemore Longlisted for the 2016 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature When the Moon Was Ours is about secrets. There’s a lot of magic in this book, too, the kind of strange, commonplace everyday weirdness that’s typical of the magical realism genre. For example, one of our main…
‘Challenger Deep’ Is All Too Real
Challenger Deep Neal Shusterman National Book Award for Young People’s Literature Nominee (2015) Okay, wow. I’m not even sure how to articulate my experience with this book, because Shusterman’s Challenger Deep is not just a book you read. It’s a book you end up having a relationship with, an experience. It’s intense. I cried. Twice.…