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Daily Bookmark: “Permanent Record” is a whirlwind YA romance for the Instagram era

August 23, 2019August 22, 2019 Alex Williamson

Pablo Rind is a lonely kid, barely eking out a living at the twenty-four-hour bodega in Brooklyn where he works the overnight shift. Leanna Smart

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Daily Bookmark: Red Hook teacher pens YA novel about staying soft in a hard world

July 31, 2019July 30, 2019 Alex Williamson

Growing up in the Red Hook projects, writer and middle school teacher Torrey Maldonado hated “boring books that seemed to dismiss him and where he

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Daily Bookmark: “Mightier than the Sword” is a kids’ book to rival screen time

July 22, 2019July 22, 2019 Alex Williamson

Kids now live in a world with endless devices competing for their eyeballs, with each app and game expertly engineered to capture their shorter and

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Daily Bookmark: In “Good Luck Girls,” #MeToo meets “West World”

July 15, 2019July 15, 2019 Alex Williamson

Though Brooklyn-based writer Charlotte Nicole Davis set her debut YA novel in a fantasy Wild West empire called Arketta, the story has plenty of resonance

Fiction YA

Brooklyn writer uses Red Hook housing projects as backdrop for new novel

October 17, 2018 BrooklynBookBeat

“Tight” by Torrey Maldonado is a fast-paced novel for middle-grade readers, that emphasizes the importance of finding your own identity, choosing friends you can depend

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YA Novel Takes A Deeply Personal Look At Mental Illness

October 17, 2017December 7, 2017 BrooklynBookBeat

It’s hard enough to save someone who doesn’t want to be saved, but it’s another thing entirely when you’re only seventeen… and ‘someone’ is none

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