If you haven’t read Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games trilogy, a dystopian fiction series that’s technically in the Young Adult literary category but has broken all boundaries to become a sensation among readers well beyond the “young” part of adulthood, then you’re missing out on a contemporary classic in the making. For those of us…
Category Archives: High School
The Iron Queen, review and special giveaway
The Iron Queen by Julie Kagawa is the highly anticipated third installment in the Iron Fey series. I have read the first two books in this YA series from Harlequin Teen, and unlike some series where it seems like the author results to filler to keep the series going, I can honestly say that The…
Night Star (The Immortals series) by Alyson Noel
There are things I like about books series, and things I don’t like. As a parent and an advocate of reading (for people of all ages), I like that someone can pick up a book, like it, and know exactly where to turn to find their next read if there are other books in the…
Children’s Classics Award Winners — December
Our six months are coming to an end, and I for one have had a wonderful time sharing some award winning children’s books that I have enjoyed with my children or on my own this year. I tried to highlight books for children of varied ages, and I kept most of my focus on awards…
Prisoners in the Palace
Prisoners in the Palace: How Princess Victoria became Queen with the Help of Her Maid, a Reporter, and a Scoundrel is a new Young Adult novel by Michaela MacColl. The title–and subtitle–says it all. This is a historical fiction novel based on the author’s examination of the very sheltered life of the teenage Victoria, before…
Annexed
Everyone has either read the Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl or is at least familiar with her true story of hiding away during the scourging of the Jews in World War II Europe. For the purposes of this review, I’m assuming that everyone has either read Anne Frank’s book or is familiar…
Extraordinary
Apparently there’s a whole world of faerie culture and lore out there. I had not heard a thing about it until I read The Iron King. I was glad I had that thorough background when I read Extraordinary by Nancy Werlin. It’s all there — glamour, truth, good versus evil, decay. This story feels different…
Brave Girl Eating
When I was a teen, I was into reading fiction about girls with anorexia, which at that time (mid-80′s) was pretty new. I even thought that I might want to become a psychologist or psychiatrist due to the empathy that was borne in me from reading about the inexplicable struggle that these young girls go…
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