The weather’s cold, it’s dark outside and you have a hankering for something warm and tasty. These cookbooks will help you whip up some deliciousness to brighten your winter days.
Sweet Revenge: Passive-Aggressive Desserts for Your Exes & Enemies by Heather Kim. Filled with recipes like What a Piece of Sheet Cake or Every Day I Regret Us S’More, this snarky and sarcastic cookbook will add a lot of sweetness to that bitter break-up.
It’s no secret that this is my favorite time of year - pumpkin patches, crunchy leaves, cooler weather, and of course spooooooky books! But what to read? Something that will leave you sleeping with the lights on? Something a little less terrifying and more atmospheric? Something funny and scary? Whether you’re looking to have your blood chilled, or just want something a little spooky to get you into the Halloween spirit, we’ve got you covered.
Historical Horror
Each year, more than half a million students participate in the National History Day Contest. Students choose a historical topic related to the annual theme, and then conduct primary and secondary research. Students will look through libraries, archives and museums, conduct oral history interviews, and visit historic sites. They present their work in one of five ways: as a paper, an exhibit, a performance, a documentary, or a website.
The Colorado Blue Spruce Young Adult Book Award has been recognizing the most popular books among middle and high school students in the State of Colorado since 1985.
Banned Books Week (September 22 – 28) is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read and to seek and to express ideas, even those some consider unorthodox or unpopular. Censorship leaves us in the dark, keep the light on. Celebrate your freedom by reading and speaking out in support of banned books!
The Top Eleven Challenged Books of 2018 are:
The school year is in full swing, which means that you, dear reader, most likely have some reading assignments looming on the horizon. Whether you’re in AP classes or not, English teachers LOVE to assign books that are likely to crop up on the AP literature test. But that list is huge, and figuring out which books you might actually enjoy reading can be daunting. Fear not! Here is a list of amazing AP books that read a lot like some much more recent popular young adult titles.
From September 15th to October 15th, Hispanic Heritage Month is celebrated, but what exactly is it celebrating or who are we celebrating? And why isn't it dedicated a complete month like other heritage months (Black History Month, Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month, or Women's History Month). I want to share the answers to these questions and I promise to give a book list at the end.
You may have noticed a little something different about Evolver today... it has a new look!
Over the past year, we've been working on streamlining the content on the teen site. We wanted to get rid of pages that weren't being used in order to get our users (you!) to the most important resources. Now that outdated content is out of the way and existing content is being updated and refined, we are ready to modernize the look and feel of Evolver.
It’s almost August?! How did that happen? Summer’s almost over, and whether you need something for a summer reading assignment or just don’t want to get bogged down in a 500-page novel, here are some quick reads that you can fit in before the end of summer break:
A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
July is National Anti-Boredom Month, and what better way to combat boredom than with a book? But what do you do when you simply can’t find that next perfect read? Maybe you’ve just finished something amazing and are suffering from serious TEABS (The End of an Awesome Book Syndrome). You know the feeling -- you’re not quite ready to move on from the people and places your last book took you to. Or maybe you’re in the dreaded book slump, when you just can’t find anything that really sucks you in.
