Walker Books

Chaz Hayden’s “The First Thing About You”: A Slice-of-Life Contemporary Novel About a Teenager Living With Muscular Dystrophy

As soon as I heard about this book, I was so keen to read it. It’s a checklist of things I love in contemporary books, including witty writing and stellar banter, complex and layered characters who have hearts of gold as well as their own demons to fight, and incredible disability rep by a disabled…Read More…

Neal Shusterman’s Short Story Collection “Gleanings” from the Arc of a Scythe Series (#3.5)

We’re back in Neal Shusterman’s Arc of a Scythe world for a short story compilation! Time for a fresh addition to the Scythe series with short stories that range from exciting, emotional, cute and eye-opening. There are 13 tales here, and each follows a different POV, some from characters we know and love from the…Read More…