Beastly is a modern spin on the Beauty and the Beast fairy tale. The YA genre is the perfect place to highlight fantasy, because teens certainly recognize the beastly nature of love and the beauty of a fairy tale romance. To me the mark of good fantasy fiction is that you focus more on the…
Category Archives: 12 and up
The Kane Chronicles: The Throne of Fire
Rick Riordan is incredible. He’s made it a goal to reach out to kids (specifically kids who might not ordinarily choose to dig into a big thick book). And I think it’s pretty clear that he’s succeeded, writing two series concurrently (The Lost Hero and The Kane Chronicles) after completing a wildly successful one (Percy…
Die For Me
An interview with my daughter Ilsa, 14, about the book Die for Me What did you like about this book? It was about as good as a book can get when it involves French zombies and crazy sisters! I thoroughly enjoyed it. Tell me about what happens. Kate’s parents die and she and her sister…
Illusions: Aprilynne Pike’s “Wings” series
My daughter Amanda and I first read Wings when it first came out. It’s the story of 15-year-old Laurel in the year that her life changes a lot: she goes from being homeschooled to public high school, and oh yeah, after she sprouts a blossom on her back, she finds out that she’s actually a…
Starcrossed
Here are some things you’ll need to know to make sense of Helen Hamilton’s world: The gods (as in Greco-Roman mythology) do exist, and they did have offspring, who are able to pass their special demigod powers on to their children even though they themselves mate with mortals. The Iliad is a historical document. The…
Divergent: A YA Video Review
My 12 1/2 year old daughter Amanda recently read Divergent by Veronica Roth, a hotly anticipated new YA book. It’s part of Harper Teen’s Dark Days of Supernatural summer releases. If you click through the link, you can enter to win all 7 releases! The giveaway closes Wednesday June 15, so don’t delay. Since I…
Scholastic Titles for Summer for Teens
I love Scholastic. Who doesn’t remember the eagerness with which we awaited the Scholastic flyers, the joys of all the latest titles at prices affordable even for those with sporadic babysitting money? I suspect that all readers of this site can relate, at least all who grew up in the US. I myself mostly grew…
Summer YA Reading Giveaway –
The Dark Days of Supernatural
HarperTeen has a new summer series — Dark Days of Supernatural. They are sponsoring a giveaway here of all 7 books by 7 authors — some new and some with bestsellers under their belts. They all have supernatural books releasing this summer and they’ll be on tour this summer. Check out HarperTeen’s Dark Days of…
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