Sophie knows she’s a witch, but that’s about all she knows. She’s never met her warlock father. Her human mother tries, but can help her very little. When Sophie tries to help a classmate with a love spell–and it goes horribly wrong–she is sent to Hex Hall by the Council that rules the Prodigium, which […]
Category: GLBT
Guide to YA Novels with GLBTQ Characters
August 9, 2013I want to give a shout out to this blog from YALSA’s The Hub. Make sure to read the comments too for more titles. Mostly, though, I want to add in the Weetzie Bat books by Francesca Lia Block as well. I HIGHLY recommend them. Tweet
Review: Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Predators and Prey
May 31, 2013This volume of BtVS season eight is for fans, not newcomers. It’s not really a book that pushes forward the drama of Twilight, the secret anti-Slayer group that’s trying to destroy every Slayer on the streets. This collection of comics serves as housekeeping, as well as character and world building asides. Perhaps channeling the modern […]
Review: Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Time of Your Life
May 24, 2013Despite the last three volumes having different writers they’ve all held deliciously true to the Buffy-verse while not letting the storyline becoming dull or repetitive. With this addition the story moves the focus back to Buffy and to the large story arc, Buffy vs the mysterious Twilight. Except it moves at this plot from a […]
Review: Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Wolves at the Gate
May 17, 2013Likely my favorite volume of Buffy so far, Book Three starts off with Buffy finding out about the major plot from the last volume, the lingering number of Slayers who have escaped her tutelage and have become something other than the first line of defense against evil. But before Buffy and the gang have time […]
Review: Buffy the Vampire Slayer: No Future for You
May 10, 2013If Buffy, the petite pop-modern vampire slayer wasn’t enough for you this second volume from Joss Whedon’s “Season Eight” of Buffy brings tortured, anti-heroine slayer Faith back into play in a role even more suited to her than vampire and demon slaying. Part of the draw of the Buffy-verse is the balance of darkness and […]
The Long Way Home doesn’t start exactly where the last television season of Buffy left off, instead it starts a little past that, after Buffy and her crew have restarted their lives. In some ways, things are very different, but in others, they’re exactly the same. Each character seems to have taken a level of […]
Dueling Reviews: Chosen by P.C. And Kristen Cast
February 1, 2013Michele says: Chosen is an interesting title for the third book of the House of Night series. So far the books are focused on super chosen one, Zoey Redbird as she struggles not to just to come to terms with a major life change, but also with realizing how much stands against her in life. […]
The Invisible Minority: LGBTQ Teens and their Literature
November 17, 2012I wanted to pass this excellent article on because literature really is a refuge for many LGBTQ teens. It’s important as an author, a librarian and a parent that books featuring queer characters are available. Article here. Tweet
Baby Be-Bop by Francesca Lia Block
March 19, 2012Baby Be-Bop is the last novelette in the Weetzie series included in the Dangerous Angels collection. Sadly, it’s also the weakest. Baby Be-Bop tells Dirk’s story. Cherokee’s maybe-dad and Weetzie best friend he’s the reason these books are often challenged or banned in school libraries, because he’s gay. On one hand I can see Baby […]