The Use of Sports in YA Literature

NCTE 07.01.24

“I think basketball is a container for the miraculous.”–Hanif Abdurraqib, author of There’s Always Next Year: On Basketball and Ascension …

Possibilities and Power in Young Adult Literature: Finding Agency in Scholarship

NCTE 04.23.23

This blog post was written by NCTE members Sarah J. Donovan, Ashley S. Boyd, and Terri Suico. When something …

NCTE 11.24.22

This post is by NCTE member Anastasia Gustafson. Just over a decade ago, young adult fiction was more than a …

This week I bumped into two different stories on the radio. Each was discussing the questions “Who gets to decide?” …

“It’s a natural human urge to protect our kids from everything that could hurt them—and it’s an urge we seem …

NCTE 04.04.18

For English teachers, picking a favorite book is almost impossible! But we asked them to do exactly that during our …

Join Jennifer Buehler @ProfBuehler and members of #NCTEreads tonight, Sunday, June 25 at 8 pm ET, for a conversation around “YA …

While some of us packed up and went home after the NCTE Annual Convention, many people stayed for the 2016 …

The following blog is excerpted with permission from Steven Bickmore’s blog Dr. Bickmore’s YA Wednesday. Steven is Associate Professor of English …

We hope you’ll join us this Sunday, September 20th at 8 PM ET for #nctechat on Twitter. Our topic will …