The Week's 5 Best Stories From NPR Books
Critics' Lists: Summer 2013
School's Out: 5 Great Summer Reads For Teens()
June 11, 2013 NPR Books is replete with readers of grown-up books, but editor Petra Mayer prefers a good YA novel any day. She picks five (well, really six) of her favorite summer YA reads, from first love in 1980s Omaha to far-future Brazil and beyond.
Monkey See
What Kids Are Reading, In School And Out()
June 11, 2013 Some experts are concerned that both in-school assignments and the books kids read for pleasure may not be challenging them enough.
Critics' Lists: Summer 2013
Sneak Preview: 5 Books To Look Forward To This Summer()
June 10, 2013 NPR's Barrie Hardymon has been scanning the catalogs all year, searching for the summer's best books. Her five favorites range from young-adult fiction to a memoir about cheese.
Politics
Our Surveillance Society: What Orwell And Kafka Might Say()
June 8, 2013 Revelations that the federal government is collecting massive amounts of data about telephone calls and Internet traffic has some people nervous that George Orwell's vision of Big Brother constantly watching them has come true.
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Badger, Bunny And Black-Cat Blues: 3 Tales Of Animal Noir()
June 9, 2013 Writer Jody Arlington picks three hot summer graphic-novel reads. The twist? They all star anthropomorphic animals: Doughty badger detective LeBrock, hard-boiled cat detective John Blacksad and resistance rabbit Hardin dodge assassins, steal secrets and track down the missing just like their human counterparts.
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