young adult fiction

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• Cicada Summer

  
  Book Dads — Authority: 517
  Poor Lily has never been quite right since the accident.  Unable to read or even speak, she’s become all but invisible to most of the townsfolk except for her father and Fern the kindly shopkeeper.  But Lily is hiding a dark secret.  She really can speak, and even read – she’s read all of the Nancy Drew books ...
  20 hours ago

• Shiver, by Maggie Stiefvater

  
  Linus's Blanket — Authority: 558
  As a young girl, Grace Brisbane is attacked and dragged from her tire swing by a pack of wolves. Though she is bitten, she is saved from from serious injury and death when a wolf with odd yellow eyes steps in to save her from the others. Over the next six years Grace avidly follows “her wolf” and he returns the ...
  2 days ago

• Hate List, by Jennifer Brown

  
  Linus's Blanket — Authority: 558
  Valerie spends the summer hiding out from her friends and anyone else who knows her after her boyfriend Nick puts an effective end to the school year with a violent and deadly rampage, killing students and teachers from their shared “hate list” as well as innocent bystanders before ending his own life.  Just as ...
  4 days ago

• On Reading YA

  
  Both Eyes Book Blog — Authority: 127
  I read young adult books.  Granted, I live with a young adult, and we read together, but I don’t need that excuse.  Young adult books at their best can be better than their adult counterparts:  they cover bigger issues, have more interesting plot lines and better drawn characters, and display more engaging ...
  4 days ago

• Family Reading Hour: “Feed”

  
  Both Eyes Book Blog — Authority: 127
  What are those things that gang aft agley?  That’s right, “the best laid plans of mice and men!”  You’d think my ambitious plan to read with my new family for at least an hour a night would fall through, wouldn’t you?  Well, ha!  Because it’s been sixth months now and we’re still going strong.  ...
  5 days ago

• Book review: ‘If I Stay’ by Gayle Forman

  
  write meg! — Authority: 124
  Settle in for a heartbreaker. Once you hear the premise of Gayle Forman’s If I Stay , it doesn’t take long to realize this isn’t exactly going to be a feel-good read . . . but you’d be surprised how ultimately uplifting this tale can be. Seventeen-year-old Mia is out for a car ride with her parents and ...
  6 days ago

• Ash

  
  Flamingo House Happenings — Authority: 126
  I’m a fairy tale fan. I’m also a modern day fairy tale fan. When I’m Here, I’m Queer, What the Hell Do I Read mentioned Ash I went immediately to my library website and reserved the book. Awesome. Not just a lesbian Cinderella but there are also fairies and huntresses. Best adaptation of Cinderella I’ve ...
  6 days ago

• Coming up on Vulpes Libris

  
  Vulpes Libris — Authority: 496
  This week on Vulpes Libris, the Foxes are taking on big topics.  From stages of life to life changing events to other lives altogether, we have challenges every day of the week. On Monday , Jackie looks at 1950’s suburbia in Richard Yates’ first novel, Revolutionary Road . On Tuesday , RosyB finds Somewhere ...
  1 week ago

• The Time Quake (Gideon Trilogy) by Linda Buckley-Archer

  
  Collected Miscellany — Authority: 126
  It ain’t always easy being an “objective” book reviewer.  I so often find that expectations and mood can have a big impact on my particular take on a book. So afterwords I try to think about why I reacted a certain way so I can offer useful evaluation for potential readers. I recently experienced this with the ...
  1 week ago

• Article Title Unknown

  
  That Lesbian Mom Next Door — Authority: 115
  Nanowrimo Solo Sounds like someone in Star Wars. But it actually describes my writer state this month. I am, as last year, attempting to write a novel in a month, part of National Novel Writing Month, which has thousands of participants annually. But I dont know any. Last year--when I technically "won" because I ...
  1 week ago

• Article Title Unknown

  
  That Lesbian Mom Next Door — Authority: 115
  Ash by Malinda Lo I started crusing the Young Adult section of bookstores years ago, looking for new material for our daughters four hundred page a day habit. Then after she talked me into reading a few, I started looking for myself. And that Im writing YA, Im checking out the new releases all the time. Which is ...
  1 week ago

• Book Review, outside IN

  
  The Book Chook — Authority: 121
  One of our strongest human needs is to fit in. This drives so much behaviour, particularly in our teenage years. Do you remember feeling that everyone else was cool, confident and charismatic, while you didn’t even fit inside your own skin? I don’t think things are any different for Generation X, Y or Z: ...
  2 weeks ago

• Guest Post with Tammar Stein, Author of Light Years

  
  Mother Daughter Book Club Blog — Authority: 126
  Today I’m guest posting at Tammar Stein’s blog . My essay is about how reading with your daughter helps you stay closer to her as she grows. Tammar is the author of Light Years . Here’s the publisher’s description of Light Years : “ He went to school to learn how to kill me. The Israeli girl who ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Wyrm King (Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles) by Holly Block and Tony DiTerlizzi

  
  Collected Miscellany — Authority: 126
  This has turned into YA fiction week here at CM.  So we might as well keep things going with another illustrated chapter book.  The Wyrm King is the final book in the Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles which appropriately enough followed The Spiderwick Chronicles . Here is a video trailer to pique your interest: ...
  2 weeks ago

• Review – The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary Pearson

  
  Hey Lady! Whatcha Readin'? — Authority: 548
  The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson 265 pages Published April 29, 2008 Fiction, young adult You can hear me blather on about The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary Pearson OR you can take my word for it that you should just drop everything and go read this book. I’d seen this book around and I was ...
  2 weeks ago

• I’d Tell You I Love You, But Then I’d Have To Kill You by Ally Carter

  
  Semicolon — Authority: 132
  For me, the last panel discussion of the day of on Saturday at the Texas Book Festival was a discussion with four children’s/YA authors about writing series fiction. The title was something like “How To Write Characters That Go the Distance: Writing Books in a Series.” The authors were Derrick Barnes (Ruby and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Announcing Young Adult Fiction Author Larry Sweitzer’s The Ghost, The Eggheads, and Babe Ruth’s Piano

  
  Pump Up Your Book Promotion Virtual Book Tours — Authority: 124
  Join Larry Sweitzer , author of the young adult fiction novel, The Ghost, The Eggheads, and Babe Ruth’s Piano (iUniverse), as he virtually tours the blogosphere in December on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book Promotion ! Larry Sweitzer About Larry Sweitzer Larry Sweitzer was born in ...
  2 weeks ago

• Twilight Prisoner by Katherine Marsh

  
  Collected Miscellany — Authority: 126
  Even though I picked up – and read – The Night Tourist from the remainders/bargain bin at Borders back in July, I just now got around to reading the sequel The Twilight Prisoner : After traveling to New York City’s ghostly underworld, Jack Per du has made it back aboveground, to join the living. But if ...
  2 weeks ago

• Odd and the Frost Giants by Neil Gaiman

  
  Collected Miscellany — Authority: 126
  I have become something of a Neil Gaiman fan.  Not an acolyte of anything, but I do enjoy checking out his latest project.  So when I spotted Odd and the Frost Giants at the library I quickly added to the pile.  After all, it fit right into my recent children’s and young adult kick. Rather than stealing ...
  2 weeks ago

• Going Too Far by Jennifer Echols

  
  Books Lists Life — Authority: 422
  I read Going Too Far by Jennifer Echols back before the Read-A-Thon so forgive me if my review is brief. This one got great reviews all over the blogosphere and I was really excited about getting my hands on it. I think it really holds up to the hype and only have a few minor complaints. So what happens? Meg is ...
  2 weeks ago

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