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Topic: YA

Joe Locke and Kit Connor in "Heartstopper" (Teddy Cavendish/Netflix)

"Heartstopper" ramps up its queer love

Nardos Haile
Judy Blume Forever (Courtesy of Prime Video)

Judy Blume is "furious" over book bans

Alison Stine
Lewis Tan as Tolya, Anna Leong Brophy as Tamar, Jessie Mei Li as Alina Starkov, Archie Renaux as Malyen Oretsev, and Patrick Gibson as Nikolai in "Shadow and Bone." (Dávid Lukács/Netflix)

How to fix "Shadow and Bone"

Alison Stine
Freddie Prinze Jr and Jennifer Love Hewitt looking up in fear in a scene from the film 'I Know What You Did Last Summer', 1998. (Columbia Pictures/Getty Images)

'90s slasher reflects today's trauma

Alison Stine
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Kit Connor and Joe Locke in "Heartstopper" (Netflix)

Tweens need more than "Heartstopper"

Alison Stine
Ella Purnell as Teen Jackie, Sophie Nélisse as Teen Shauna, Alexa Barajas as Teen Mari and Keeya King as Teen Akilah in "Yellowjackets" (Kailey Schwerman/SHOWTIME)

The fierce YA logic of "Yellowjackets"

Alison Stine
(Salon Talks)

Anderson: "I was incandescently angry"

Mary Elizabeth Williams
(iStockphoto/Porechenskaya/Salon)

How YA female protagonists are changing

Kelly Roberts - The Conversation
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Writing affirmative consent in YA novels

Michelle Falkoff
"Handbook for Mortals: Book One of the Series" by Lani Sarem (GeekNation Press)

Booted bestseller strikes back

Alessandra Maldonado

About "Everything, Everything"

Mary Elizabeth Williams
(AP/Beth J. Harpaz)

The power of pop literature

Paula Young Lee
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(Jake Hamilton)

How Levithan found his voice

Michele Filgate

3 sane books on abortion

Rachel Kramer Bussel
John Green (AP/Evan Agostini)

The book is just the start

Mary Elizabeth Williams
(Laurent Castellucci)

Meet sci-fi's best YA writer

Sara Scribner
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My dirty secret writing life

Anna Davies
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