Tea & Controversy
BookTook has accused Powerless by Lauren Roberts of copying this YA golden age novel
What is Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard?
The setting of The Summer I Turned Pretty, adapted from Jenny Han’s novels in 2022
Where is Cousins?
The author of “Windows, Mirrors, and Sliding Glass Doors”
Who is Dr. Rudine Sims Bishop?
Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl’s Beautiful Creatures (2009) is inspired by the following region of the United States
Where is the South?
The two key concepts defined in the subtitle of Roberta Seelinger Trites’ Disturbing the Universe
What are power and repression?
The catalyst for Kathleen Hale’s scandal, in which she showed up to a reader’s house in 2019
What is a Goodreads review?
E. Lockhart’s 2014 bestseller that became a TV series in 2025
What is We Were Liars?
The full name for the research library that provided the data for the “Diversity in Children’s Books” infographic
What is Children’s Cooperative Book Center?
Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick and Fallen by Lauren Kate are examples of this trend in YA romance
What is angels & demons?
The publisher who founded the term “new adult” in 2009
What is St. Martin’s Press?
Melissa de la Cruz’s Sibylline (2026) recently sparked heated discussions about this topic in YA
What is “open door” sexual content?
The instrument played by Mia in Gayle Forman’s If I Stay, adapted in 2014 starring Chloe Grace Moretz
What is the cello?
The year that the International Journal of Young Adult Literature’s inaugural issue was published
When is 2020?
Tris's original faction AND chosen faction in Veronica Roth's Divergent trilogy
What are Abnegation and Dauntless?
The liminally coded term for a pre-teen, alluding to the time between child and teenager
What is “tween”?
The defense used by Tracy Wolff when accused of plagiarism in her vampire romance series Crave
What is “standard romantasy tropes”?
The online origin of Ali Novak’s My Life with the Walter Boys, adapted by Netflix in 2023
What is Wattpad?
The sponsoring university for the Children’s Literature journal, which also offers a low-residency MA in children’s literature
What is Hollins University?
The lethal creatures featured in James Dashner’s The Maze Runner
What are Grievers?
The Bildungsroman is a more specific version of this type of novel
What is an Entwicklungsroman?
The contents of a book box inspired by A Court of Thorns and Roses that caused viral backlash in 2018
What is phallic soap?
Name of both male tributes reaped from District 12 in Sunrise on the Reaping
Who are Woodbine Chance and Wyatt Callow?
These US universities both launched the "first" official master's in children's literature programs in 1977
What is Simmons University and Eastern Michigan University?
The title of the memoir written by Esther Grace Earl, the inspiration behind John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars
What is This Star Won’t Go Out?
The upper limit of adolescence introduced by a new University of Cambridge study in 2025
What is 32?