YA fiction has just been injected with a dose of reality.  The teen authors of the new Louder Than Words series have created gripping memoirs that tell their own personal stories.  The first three books have been released, and are described on the...

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...

No Choirboy: Murder, Violence, and Teenagers on Death Row by Susan Kuklin

Susan Kuklin immerses readers in a world that (hopefully!) we will never see: a federal prison.  No Choirboy is not a debate about capital punishment, but a series of...

A la Cart: the secret lives of grocery shoppers by Hillary Carlip 

What we eat, what we buy; these seem like small details in our busy lives.  But when you stop and look at the food that a person purchases, it can paint a revealing portrait of...

First Kiss (Then Tell) edited by Cylin Busby 

Oh my gosh, what if I have bad breath? What if he has bad breath? Where am I supposed to put my hands? Oh no, he’s leaning in…