Young Adult Fiction

Welcome to the 'Young Adult Fiction' tag page at Technorati. This page features content from the farthest reaches of the Blogosphere that authors have "tagged" with 'Young Adult Fiction'.

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Young Adult Fiction”

• The Homeschool Liberation League by Lucy Frank

  
  Semicolon — Authority: 134
  The first day of eighth grade I took the bus to school, walked through the door, turned around, and went home. From that great beginning line to the kiss at the end, Lucy Frank’s “tribute to the range of learning possibilities available to kids today” is a delight and a keeper. It’s not pro- nor ...
  4 days ago

• BLOG TOUR: The Hunts

  
  SORMAG's Blog — Authority: 419
  Natasha Usher is a wife, a mother, and a middle grades teacher who lives outside of Atlanta Georgia. When not writing or nurturing young minds, Natasha enjoys reading, watching movies, photography, and cooking. She is a graduate of Mercer University where she majored in Business and earned her initial teaching ...
  4 days ago

• If the Witness Lied by Caroline B. Cooney

  
  Semicolon — Authority: 134
  Why does the teaser on the back of this book give away key plot developments? Because this YA thriller is suspenseful and fun to read. It doesn’t need a quoted passage from the next-to-the-last chapter printed on the back cover and spoiling the surprises. Bad move on the part of whoever designed the cover. So ...
  4 days ago

• What Books Do You Remember?

  
  Taste Like Crazy — Authority: 116
  I’m one of those people who marks moments in their lives with books. The Horse That Came to Breakfast reminds me of my mom and me reading in this big queen sized bed that smelled of moth balls at this cabin in Hardy, AR. My mom was dating this guy [who later became my step-father for a period of time] who owned ...
  4 days ago

• Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld

  
  Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs — Authority: 99
  In an alternative Europe, Darwinists have successful unraveled and recombined the stuff of life to create new animals. The Leviathan is a Darwinist engineered giant dirigible that is primarily sperm whale, but encompasses a whole ecosystem of animals each working to keep the Leviathan military airship aloft. Deryn ...
  5 days ago

• The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness - Review

  
  At Home With Books — Authority: 522
  The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness Publisher: Candlewick Publication Date: July 2009 (reprint) ISBN: 9780763645762 496 Pages (Paperback) Young Adult: Dystopian Fiction Summary (from the publisher ): Todd Hewitt is the only boy in a town of men. Ever since the settlers were infected with the Noise ...
  5 days ago

• Special Holiday Feature: A Texas Christmas by Beverly Stowe McClure

  
  Book Tours and More — Authority: 420
  SPECIAL HOLIDAY FEATURE "A Texas Christmas" by Beverly Stowe McClure, author of Just Breeze On December 22, 2005, my husband had a heart attack and complications. We celebrated that Christmas in the hospital. He didn’t hear the carolers as they strolled down the hallway singing Christmas songs. He didn’t ...
  6 days ago

• Special Holiday Feature: A Texas Christmas by Beverly Stowe McClure

  
  The Book Connection... — Authority: 127
  SPECIAL HOLIDAY FEATURE "A Texas Christmas" by Beverly Stowe McClure, author of Just Breeze On December 22, 2005, my husband had a heart attack and complications. We celebrated that Christmas in the hospital. He didn’t hear the carolers as they strolled down the hallway singing Christmas songs. He didn’t ...
  6 days ago

• Tackling Israeli-Palestinian issues through fiction

  
  Great stories — Authority: 99
  One of the hardest things to do in fiction is tackle a complex issue and still deliver an engaging story. Randa Abdel-Fattah , a Muslim of Palestinian and Egyptian heritage who grew up in Melbourne, has a strong literary track record of tackling the challenging topic of being a teenage girl of Middle Eastern descent ...
  1 week ago

• Christmas in New York, 1776

  
  Semicolon — Authority: 134
  “The holly-bits were tied with pine branches and set on the sills of the street-facing windows. Glass bowls of red berries were set on small tables in the drawing room, library, and the front parlor. Madam had two soldiers hang a ball of mistletoe in the front hall. This provided great merriment amongst the men and ...
  1 week ago

• Little Black Lies: Tish Cohen

  
  What Kate's Reading — Authority: 410
  From the moment Sara walks into Anton High School and abets the misconception that shes from London - instead of Lundon, Massachusetts - you simply know that she will propagate awesome lies about herself, become friends or frenemies with the cool kids, catch the eye of the hottest guy in school, eventually take a fall ...
  1 week ago

• The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson

  
  Books Love Me - Reviews — Authority: 91
  Jenna Fox woke up one fine day remembering nothing from her past. The 17-year-old doesn’t remember who she was, who her family was, who her friends were, where she went to school, nothing. After a year’s long coma caused by an accident, Jenna woke up trying to remember as much as she can but finding it quite ...
  1 week ago

• Book Review: According to Kit by Eugenie Doyle

  
  Mother Daughter Book Club Blog — Authority: 120
  Kit can’t believe her mother would force her to stay home and be homeschooled just because a classmate at her high school pulled a knife on another student. She doesn’t want to stay home and spend even more time helping take care of the dairy farm she lives on with her mother, father and grandfather. And when ...
  1 week ago

• Gossip Girl Manga Coming Soon!

  
  Square Eyes | blinkx Remote TV and celebrity gossip blog — Authority: 133
  Oh my goodness!  They’re making a manga based on Gossip Girl! Yen Press is publishing a manga based on the Cecily von Ziegesar bestselling young adult novels. Gossip Girl: For Your Eyes Only is being described as “an original re-imagination” of senior year on the Upper East Side, and is set to debut in January. ...
  1 week ago

• Vote for the Best Vampire Book Covers of 2009

  
  Suburban Vampire — Authority: 493
  Amazon.com is currently celebrating the Best Book Covers of 2009 ...but they didnt include any vampire covers. Here at Suburban Vampire, Im celebrating the Best VAMPIRE Book Covers of 2009, using nominations that came from my visitors. Each subjects poll is located below the Amazon links/cover thumbnails. Voting ...
  2 weeks ago

• Beautiful Creatures Release Party

  
  My Fam — Authority: 119
  Kamie, Margie, Brodi and IAbout a month ago, one of my friends from WAY back when, in Junior High and High School, Brodi Ashton, was looking for someone to take her family photos on last minutes notice. I volunteered and am so glad I did. Her family was hilarious and fun. The kids melted my heart. Brodi looks the ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Children of Odin – The Book of Northern Myths

  
  Collected Miscellany — Authority: 123
  As regular readers of this blog will know, I have developed a keen interest in myths and fairy tales.  Natural I suppose with my history background as myths are the past handed down in storytelling form; not in the modern sense of history but as art with seeds of the past embedded. I have explored myths in ...
  2 weeks ago

• Linkalicious

  
  Into the Wardrobe — Authority: 109
  Ive been meaning to help spread the word about this for some time now: Usok , a quarterly web-based magazine of speculative fiction by Filipino writers. Its published by Rocket Kapre Books and edited by Paolo Chikiamco . Let me take this opportunity to say that I am SUPER impressed by Paolo Chikiamco. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Friday’s Vintage Find:: The Romance of a Christmas Card by Kate Douglas Wiggin

  
  Hope Is the Word — Authority: 415
  I’ve been wanting to share for the past week about this little gem of a Christmas story I re-read last week, and I’m finally getting around to it.    First published in 1916, The Romance of a Christmas Card by Kate Douglas Wiggin is the sweet story of a how a hand-drawn Christmas card brings home two ...
  2 weeks ago

• Into the Twilight Zone

  
  Vulpes Libris — Authority: 424
  Article by Guest Reviewer, Samantha Tonge. I first entered the Twilight Zone three weeks ago, when my husband went away on business. It was a long time coming. For a year or two my early teen daughter has been pushing me to read Stephenie Meyer’s series of books. Unlike many of her friends who have simply fallen ...
  2 weeks ago

Comments about Young Adult Fiction