A few good links to get you through the day:

• The high school reading list zodiac; probably as accurate as the newspaper horoscope, but fun.
• Not all too surprising that Harry Potter inspires social activism.
• Ranking teen hero types.
• “You wish you could call in ‘curled up with a good book’ to take the day off work” (YES) and other things that happen when you’re a book nerd.
• Sherman Alexie, mic dropping.
• Blame neuromaturation for all those bad choices you made/are making as a teen.
• A real-life look at Panem’s economic structure.
• Peeta, you had one job!
• Stephen Colbert suggest the next phase for Amazon delivery.
• Gifts for the writer in your life (but seriously, skip the journals).
• A lovely post about three shared literary birthdays.
• “I believe that every lifelong reader has one author who somehow bored a hole into her childhood soul—a hole just large enough to let in all the rest of literature and art and humanity. For me—and I’m one of thousands and thousands, I know—that was you.” I think a lot of readers could send this letter to Lois Lowry.