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Back in November, I asked readers to share what their favorite female-driven YA novels were. Because the response was tremendous (hundreds and hundreds!!) it took me a while to round them up into a useful post. But now it’s here! These span all genres...

This post is sponsored by Girl in Disguise by Greer Macallister. The streets of 1856 Chicago offer a desperate widow mostly trouble and ruin—unless that widow has a knack for manipulation and an unusually quick mind. In a bold move that no other woman...

A Beloved Acting Coach, a Teen Girl and Sexual Assault Charges: Cameron Thor's Accuser Breaks Silence by Scott Johnson In 2009, one of Hollywood's best-known teachers drove a 13-year-old girl into the Malibu hills, where, she says, a horrific sexual...

Polly Hannah Klaas was born on January 3, 1981 in Fairfax, Cal., to Marc and Eve Klaas. Her parents divorced when she was only two-and-a-half. Marc Klaas was later to remark that the couple had "an unsuccessful marriage but a successful divorce" because...

Happy Birthday this week to: March 05 1933 ● Tommy Tucker (Robert Higginbotham) → Blues singer, songwriter and pianist, “High-Heeled Sneakers” (#11, 1964), died from carbon tetrachloride poisoning after inhaling the chemical while refinishing floors...