Announcing our Teen Book Club!

It’s Pride month and school is out! We wanted to celebrate both these things by starting a brand new book club, especially for teen readers. We looked through our shelves and pulled down All Out, a collection of stories about queer teens. Fitting for a book club for teens during pride month, no?

We will be meeting on Wednesday the 29th of June at 6:30 p.m. - the day before our regular Skylarking Bookclub. It’s completely free to attend – we just ask that you purchase your copy of the book from us, whether in person or online.

The session is for teen readers and will be led by the younger Skylark staff! It will be a relaxed and welcoming environment where you’ll be able to chat and share your views with no judgement. It’s going to be a really interesting conversation, and also a lot of fun.

 Here’s what Kirkus Reviews (a notoriously tough reviewer) had to say about the book: “Readers searching for positive, nuanced, and authentic queer representation—or just a darn good selection of stories—need look no further than this superb collection.”

Seventeen of the best young adult authors across the queer spectrum have come together to create a collection of beautifully written diverse historical fiction for teens. From a retelling of Little Red Riding Hood set in war-torn 1870s Mexico featuring a transgender soldier, to two girls falling in love while mourning the death of Kurt Cobain, forbidden love in a sixteenth-century Spanish convent or an asexual girl discovering her identity amid the 1970s roller-disco scene, All Out tells a diverse range of stories across cultures, time periods and identities, shedding light on an area of history often ignored or forgotten.

The book features stories by Malinda Lo, Elliot Wake, Anna-Marie McLemore, Shaun David Hutchinson, Mackenzi Lee, Kody Keplinger, Kate Scelsa, Nilah Magruder, Alex Sanchez, Natalie C. Parker,  Dahlia Adler, Sara Farizan, Scott Tracey and Robin Talley, Tess Sharpe, and introducing Tehkor Kay Mejia.