My 13-year-old daughter and I have been enjoying Julie Kagawa’s Iron Fey series since we first were exposed to The Iron King last summer. Please check out my review of that book for an indication of the inventive and adventure-filled world that Julie Kagawa has created. The Iron Knight is the 4th installment in the…
Category Archives: High School
All Men of Genius
It’s Victorian England, and Violet Adams is a frustrated young scientist. Her biggest wish is to go to Illyria University, famed world-wide for its exclusive focus on science, but they do not admit women. Her twin brother Ashton, meanwhile, wants nothing more than to patronize London’s exclusive clubs and meet other like-minded young men. When…
All These Things I’ve Done
All These Things I’ve Done epitomizes everything I love about Young Adult literature. It’s told in a first-person introspective POV by 16-year-old Anya Balanchine. She tells the story in real-time, blow by blow, but there are phrases that indicate that she’s looking back, like “If I had known what was to come” etc. It also…
Ready Player One
Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One is described as a sort of quirky genre-busting novel, which are among my favorite to read — when they work. I’m not sure how genre-busting it is, but this book did work for me. Immediately, this novel felt like the popular dystopian genre that is so prevalent in YA literature…
The Fox Inheritance
I read (listened to, actually) The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson more than a year ago. It was not only an interesting story with a creepy premise, but it was an excellent audiobook version, which I think contributed to my enjoyment of it. When I saw that there was a new book…
Black, White, Other: In Search of Nina Armstrong
Nina’s mom is white. Her dad is black. Her brother looks like her dad, and except for slightly darker skin, Nina looks like her mom. What does that make her? Black? White? Something Other? Being a high school freshman is hard enough, but for Nina, she’s feeling caught between the “black kids” and the “white…
I Am Number Four — Books on Screen
This summer Amanda started reading the Lorien Legacies series. The book I Am Number Four was only released last summer, and I think that the movie was already in production, which probably has helped increase interest in the books. The second book The Power of Six just came out (linked to Amanda’s review). There are…
Bamboo People
I wouldn’t normally be drawn to a middle grade/young adult novel set in war-torn India, but Bamboo People is written by Mitali Perkins, and it was available as an audiobook, which makes it easier for me to get interested in a theme that isn’t familiar to me. I’ve read a couple of Perkins’ novels and…
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