young adult fiction

Jim Rugg is a comics artist with a penchant for drawing female protagonists.Rugg, who's 42, traces the tendency to his high school days.“In art class, I…

Siobhan Vivian and Rachael Lippincott started as teacher and student, one shepherding two courses of "Writing Youth Literature," and the other still on…

As a former teacher, parent, and author of children's and young adult novels, Colleen McKenna values fiction for young readers that doesn't insult their…