And here’s Part 2 of our “astonishing” interview with Barry Lyga.
YARN: “Boy Toy” is an amazingly difficult novel to describe in terms of plot. However, it seems like Josh’s main issue is not so much the actual sexual abuse but the memory of it. Could you elaborate on the fine line between the two [...]
Guts. If there’s a word that describes Barry Lyga’s amazing novels, it’s that. Guts. I mean, what other writer is willing to totally reveal his comic book geekdom in his first novel (“The Amazing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl”), then discuss the complicated sexual abuse of a teen boy by a female teacher in his second book (“Boy Toy”) [...]
Yesterday I was invited to my son’s preschool class to speak about CAREERS. Yes, three-year-olds now have Career Day. Maybe you went to the kind of preschool that requires admission essays and interviews, so you would know what to expect. I didn’t. I went to a hippy-dippy co-op nursery school in California, unofficially themed [...]
By Emily Gersky
Enlighten Your Ears
Twinkle twinkle go the stars
as the sun sets and the
moon rises in your ears.
The folds and freckles
dusted in random clusters on [...]
We’re indebted to the imagination of Meg Cabot. She takes the dreams of every girl…and then allows us to live them. What if I suddenly found out I was a princess? What if I magically became a runway model? But Meg’s heroines show us that life’s problems don’t suddenly disappear with newfound beauty, power or [...]
by Tina Ferraro
Tiffany and Amber won the scavenger hunt. Parker and I—with another late start—never made it past “More than you, but less than double you,” which turned out to be “vee,” as in the V-shaped split of the Chu’s front yard oak tree. So another team got the glory and the gift cards [...]
Since this is my first blog post, I suppose it makes sense to start at the beginning. Not when I was born (because while I think Charles Dickens would have been in the vanguard of the blog movement, I’m not really trying to channel his “David Copperfield“). No, by starting at the beginning I mean [...]
For the record, I’m a fan of paranormal and fantastical romance. Dangle the magical, epic love stories within “Evermore,” “The Dark Divine,” “The Forest of Hands and Teeth” or the “Twilight” series before me…and I bite only to get hooked…big time. This love of epic fantasy has been developing within me since childhood. Begin with [...]
It was time. Yep. Time for us YARN editors to share a little more about ourselves and what we think about YA, the writing process, editing, and maybe what we had for breakfast this morning. Sure, we throw great YA writing onto the site every few weeks for you to read, but that doesn’t help [...]
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