Reading for Teens

Author Stephanie Barron hears voices. In particular, she hears the voice of British novelist Jane Austen, author of such classics as Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice. But to Barron, Jane is not just a novelist -- in addition, her powers of observation and deduction and her understanding of human ...

Around the year 600 A.D., King Mynyddog of the Gododdin summoned three hundred warriors, the sons of minor kings, and six hundred shieldbearers to his capital of Dyn Eiden. For one year, Mynyddogg shaped his warriors into a fighting company the likes of which had not been seen in Britain since ...

In the face of the tragedy that struck America this week, it is impossible to return to normal life -- the everyday routines of school, homework, and afterschool activities seem mundane and pointless. It is difficult even to sit down with a good book or to write about the sadness, fear, ...

Arthur Dent was having a bad day. A very bad day. One of those terrible, horrible, no good, very bad days that only comes along once in a million years, when the town counsel decides to demolish your house and a pesky Vogon Constructor Fleet appears out of nowhere to destroy ...

Almost every young person dreams (at some point) of becoming a writer. Whether driven by a desire for fame or by the wish to emulate a favorite author, many of these young people write, putting their thoughts and stories down on paper. Many dream of seeing their words in print. Only ...

According to Ned Vizzini, "Getting through [high school] is easy. You have three options: good grades, social success, and sleep. You can only have two out of three."

Wednesday 5 March
7:08 p.m. Am assured, receptive, responsive woman of substance. My sense of self comes not from other people but from...from...myself? That can't be right.

It's time for class at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. And for the first time ever, two of the books used by Hogwarts students are available to Muggles as well as wizards. Now, non-magical folks can peruse Newt Scamander's classic Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and read Kennilworthy ...

With the advent of hundreds of webpage design applications available for free or for a nominal fee on the World Wide Web, designing webpages from scratch using HTML has fallen out of fashion. But with his award-winning book, HTML Goodies, Joe Burns makes HTML code and web design easy to master. ...

On March 1, 1989, in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, a group of high school "Jocks" raped a seventeen-year-old retarded girl named Leslie Faber. Although most of the Jocks' classmates knew about the rape soon after it occurred, weeks passed before anyone had the courage to go to the police. And even ...