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Shelf Discovery
From Beverly Cleary's novels to Judy Blume's whole oeuvre, "Shelf Discovery" looks at the importance and, for many adolescent girls, life-changing nature of young adult literature.
That Should Be a Word
Finally there’s a word for it: Fidgital—excessively checking one’s devices. Martyrmony—staying married out of duty. Author of the highly popular “That Should Be a Word” feature in the New York Times Magazine, Lizzie Skurnick delights word lovers with razor-sharp social commentary delivered via clever neologisms. That Should Be a Word is a compendium of 244 of Skurnick’s wittiest wordplays—more than half of them new—arranged in ingenious diagrams detailing their interrelationships. Complete with definitions, pronunciations, usage examples, and illustrations, That Should Be a Word features words on our obsession with food: carbiter—one who asserts that someone else cannot b...
Pretty Bitches
These empowering essays from leading women writers examine the power of the gendered language that is used to diminish women -- and imagine a more liberated world. Words matter. They wound, they inflate, they define, they demean. They have nuance and power. "Effortless," "Sassy," "Ambitious," "Aggressive": What subtle digs and sneaky implications are conveyed when women are described with words like these? Words are made into weapons, warnings, praise, and blame, bearing an outsized influence on women's lives -- to say nothing of our moods. No one knows this better than Lizzie Skurnick, writer of the New York Times' column "That Should be A Word"and a veritable queen of cultural coinage. And...
Mischief and Malice
Mischief and Malice is a brand new work from an iconic figure in YA literature.
Isabel's War
Isabel thinks World War II is a drag--until the horrors of war literally come right into her home.
To All My Fans, with Love, from Sylvie
Afraid of her foster father's advances, fifteen-year-old Sylvia flees and is aided by Walter and Vic who have different motives for helping her.
Debutante Hill
In the 1950s, when the society families of Rivertown decide to launch their daughters in an elaborate debut season, beautiful Lynn Chambers is delighted until her father refuses to let her participate in this display of snobbishness and Lynn finds herself ostracized from the community in which she grew up.
Lilli's Quest
The stunning sequel to the award-winning Isabel's War tells the story of a young German girl trapped in the Holocaust.
A Papa Like Everyone Else
The experience of two young jewish girls and their mother, living on a farm in the Czechoslovak Republic after World War I, while waiting for their father to send them money to join him in America.
More All-of-a-kind Family
The story of five young Jewish girls growing up in New York's lower east side before the first world war.
