Tag: young adult
Sara Deeter
March 31, 2017
Author Spotlight, Chick Lit, Fantasy, New Adult, New Releases, Reading, Reviews, Romance, Women, Young Adult
Calling all Labyrinth fans! Wonderfully dark and almost painfully enchanting, Wintersong is a YA adaptation of the cult classic movie Labyrinth (David Bowie and Jennifer Connelly). Discerning readers will notice …
YouTube Channel: Epic Reads From the Description: Get to know Meagan Spooner, author of HUNTED, as she reveals some traveling facts about herself, her passion for archery, and her …
Christianna Marks
March 28, 2017
Comics and Graphic Novels, Contemporary, Humor, LGBT, New Releases, Performing Arts, Relationships, Reviews, Romance, Sci-Fi, Young Adult
Fellow nerds, gather near, I got your next book boyfriend for you. Do you enjoy things like Firefly, Star Trek, Star Wars, Dr. Who, Cinderella, and Comic Conventions? If …
If you haven’t been watching NBC’s This Is Us, you need to start. Like, right now. It’s honest, it’s imaginative, it’s devastating, and it’s inspiring. It’s an incredibly insightful look …
The Hate U Give is the debut young-adult novel from author Angie Thomas. It explores race politics in America in a bold, shocking and—unfortunately—highly relatable way. When Ms. Thomas …
In 1965, after failing a creative writing class in her junior year of high school, sixteen-year-old Susan Eloise Hinton, unsatisfied with the literature that was being written for young …
Millenials can easily be described as one of the most sexualized generations and it’s shown in the way Young Adult fiction is portrayed now, as opposed to our grandparents …
The third book in Victoria Aveyard‘s Red Queen series, King’s Cage, hit shelves last month on February 7th and our hearts are still reeling from the emotion and heartbreak …
Even though Jesse Andrews takes on a cliché topic in Me and Earl and The Dying Girl, he manages to spin the typical narrative on its head and craft a poignant …
Author of the Young Adult dystopian series The 5th Wave, Rick Yancey, is gearing up to add three new novels to the bestselling series. The original trilogy focuses on …
For an author to hear that their book is not only a fast-seller, but is also going to be made into a movie, must be the greatest news. But …
Christianna Marks
March 11, 2017
Contemporary, Family, New Releases, Reading, Relationships, Reviews, Romance, TBR, Travel, Young Adult
Every once in awhile, everyone needs a fluffy romantic book to dive into, and I have to say that you shouldn’t look any farther than Celilia Vinesse’s Seven Days …
YouTube Channel: Random House Kids From the Description: The thrilling first book in a YA fantasy trilogy for fans of Red Queen. In a world where social prestige derives from …
Sara Deeter
March 8, 2017
Book Lists, Chick Lit, Classics, Human Interest, Jane Austen, Shakespeare, Stephanie Meyer, Women, WTF, Young Adult
Ambi…what? I know–“ambivert” sounds like it belongs on those lists of advanced SAT words that you *totally* still remember from your frantic memorization sessions in high school. But just …
Christianna Marks
March 8, 2017
Book Lists, Book News, Contemporary, Crime, Fantasy, Humor, LGBT, Memoir, Mystery, New Releases, Non-Fiction, Performing Arts, Relationships, Romance, Suspense/Thriller, TBR, Travel, Women, Young Adult
It’s March, three months into 2017. So far we’ve gotten some really good books, but March looks rather promising if you ask me. There’s fun memoirs, a huge amount …
Memes are no longer just silly videos you send to your friends—or images your great Aunt Gladys posts all over Facebook—internet culture has officially taken over the mainstream with …
The Vampire Diaries is finally coming to an end. For years, fans of this TV show have wondered how all the action and conflict could possibly be resolved. Will …
I really should say “meet one of” because if your kid likes to read, they have more than one favorite author (but that just gets a little too complicated …
Philip Pullman is back, baby! The author of the somewhat infamous His Dark Materials trilogy has just announced the arrival of a new trilogy set in the same universe. The …
Christianna Marks
February 25, 2017
Book Lists, Book News, Classics, Contemporary, Emily Bronte, Fantasy, Jane Austen, L. Frank Baum, Mystery, New Releases, Performing Arts, Poetry, Relationships, Romance, Satire, Sci-Fi, Science Fiction, Shakespeare, TBR, William Shakespeare, Young Adult
I don’t know about the rest of you, but even in the midst of all the retellings out in the world, I still get excited when I see that …