A review of the new dystopian Holocaust YA novel, Wolf by Wolf

The National Book Awards just eliminated an incredible YA read. Luckily, that book’s getting another prize. Introducing the Mibbys.

There’s a movement to make children’s books more embracing of underrepresented groups. Where should Jews fit in?

The master of horror talks Goosebumps, scaring kids, and his Passover Seders

Today’s young-adult literature is full of teenagers for whom being Jewish isn’t a Very Important Issue

It was from her daughter, and it’s delightfully simple

Beloved young adult writer’s new book is described as ‘quintessential Judy’

Happy early Halloween, teen horror fans

New titles, for three different age groups, offer young readers an escape into fantastical fiction—with a Jewish twist

Thane Rosenbaum’s young-adult novel The Stranger Within Sarah Stein, takes on the Holocaust and Sept. 11 but can’t reconcile Jewish past and future

Judy Blume’s 35-year-old classic Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself avoids the main problem of Holocaust fiction: sanctification

Chaim Potok’s 1967 novel The Chosen, about Jewish teenagers in Brooklyn, is no less inscrutable for adults than it has been for generations of young readers

Need Hanukkah gift ideas? From a tale of a Shabbat princess to a Lower East Side detective story, here are the year’s best Jewish kids’ books

And still totally getting you

Young-adult novelist Norma Klein taught me about sex and feminism, in a very Jewish world