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 The Iliad is a historical document.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…
Category Archives: High School
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…
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…
Alice Bliss, Review
Alice Bliss is fifteen. She’s been best friends with the neighbor boy Henry since they were in diapers, but their feelings seem to be changing into maybe something more. Other things at school have changed, too, like her best girlfriend joining the popular crowd and totally ignoring her, and a popular guy paying attention to…
Awaken
The year is 2060. Maddie has been going about her life, doing and experiencing everything on screens — chats, school, study groups, even exercise — until she meets Justin in a study chat room. He invites her to come to a face to face study group, and gradually Maddie begins to question her lifestyle that…
Enclave
When the audiobook Enclave by Ann Aguirre arrived in my mailbox, I thought, “More dystopian lit,” but it was more like “Dystopian lit! Bring it on!” My 12-year-old Amanda and I both enjoy these types of novels. I think that one reason adults as well as young people are drawn to this type of story…
The Survivors
In 1692, a group of 26 adolescents are accused of witchcraft in Salem. The town has lost some of its taste for execution, so the children are instead sent into exile, far into the western plains in the depth of winter. Only 14 survive, and they notice that not only do they not die, but…
Meg Cabot’s Abandon: Review and Author Interview
I am so excited to share this post with you for so many reasons. We were privileged to be able to ask the wildly successful author Meg Cabot some questions, and I love what she has to say about writing, about teens, and about her own growing-up years. But can I be honest? The thing…
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