The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) is compiling a list of the top ten Young Adult books of 2009.  Vote for your top three favorites here.  I have only read eight of the twenty-five teen-nominated book selections, so I need to get...

Have you seen the Dove Evolution video ? It uses time lapse photography to quickly show how a natural woman is turned into the unnatural creation depicted on a huge advertising billboard.

Do you ever compare yourself to the women on the covers of...

In 1783 England, Sovay Middleton is not a typical young lady, although she is wealthy and beautiful. To unmask an unfaithful fiance, she dresses as a man and robs his stagecoach at gun point. To protect her father, she robs a mail coach. She makes...

If I Stay by Gayle Forman 

Mia’s world splintered apart the snowy morning of the car crash.  One moment, she was laughing with her loving family and the next she was an orphan trapped in a coma.  Now she must make an impossible choice: to let go...

The Devouring by Simon Holt 

When dark creeps in and eats the light,
Bury your fears on Sorry Night.
For in the winter's blackest hours
Comes the feasting of the Vours.
No one can see it, the life they stole,
Your body's here but not your...