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Vaccination Investigation: Meet Journalist and YA Nonfiction Author Tara Haelle

By Domenica Di Piazza, Editorial Director of Twenty-First Century Books Twenty-First Century Books’ Spring 2018 season is starting off with a bang! One of our YA nonfiction imprint’s newest contributors–science journalist Tara Haelle–got a glowing starred review from Kirkus in February for Vaccination Investigation: The History and Science of Vaccines. Described in the review as […]Read more

Meet Economic Inequality Author Coral Celeste Frazer

By Domenica Di Piazza, Editorial Director of Twenty-First Century Books I invited one of Twenty-First Century Book’s newest writers–Coral Celeste Frazer–to talk about her new YA title for the imprint. Economic Inequality: The American Dream under Siege is out this spring.Read more

Fandom: A Sandbox Where Everybody Gets to Play [Author Spotlight]

By Domenica Di Piazza, Editorial Director of Twenty-First Century Books I invited Francesca Davis DiPiazza to talk about Fandom: Fic Writers, Vidders, Gamers, Artists, and Cosplayers, her newest book for TFCB.Read more

The Civil Rights Movement and the Power of Teen Girl Activists

By Carol Hinz, Editorial Director of Millbrook Press and Carolrhoda Books I was fascinated from the moment author Heather E. Schwartz first mentioned a group of black teen girls protesting for their civil rights in Georgia in 1963. These teen girl activists were locked up in a Civil War-era stockade in Leesburg, Georgia. What stood […]Read more

Help Teens Go Beyond the Headlines With New Nonfiction on the Opioid Crisis

By Twenty-First Century Books Editorial Director Domenica Di Piazza “It’s hard to watch someone you love fall so deeply under the spell of a substance that turns him or her into a stranger. Someone you don’t even want to know.” Best-selling YA novelist Ellen Hopkins says this about her own experience with her meth-addicted daughter. […]Read more

Black Holes and Whales: YA Nonfiction on Newsworthy STEM Topics

Our teen nonfiction imprint, Twenty-First Century Books, has some dynamic new Fall 2017 YA nonfiction titles to pair with breaking STEM stories.Read more

STEM on Parade: 5 New Teen Nonfiction Books

By Twenty-First Century Books Editorial Director Domenica DiPiazza As TFCB’s editorial director, I love seeing each new season’s books on parade, and Fall 2017 is no exception. This season, the imprint has a fantastic lineup of STEM teen nonfiction books. STEM integration is a vital part of K-12 education, and helping students discern fact from […]Read more

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