Review: The Graveyard Book
For the few – very few – who may have never read Gaiman, I recommend this as your first read. He also has a couple of short story collections that I love, and recommend highly. Continue reading
Tag Archives: Young Adult
Review: The Atomic Weight of Secrets
It’s books like these that allow me to offer a solid example when defending, and recommending young adult fiction to adults. It may not satisfy the older portion of the age range who tend to like the popular dark fantasy or steampunk, but for those wanting a good mystery – this is just the book. Continue reading
Review: The Declaration
This story does stay with you. Makes you wonder how many of us are willing to accept our true role on this planet, and whether or not it should be an infinite one. What price would any of us pay in order to have a longer life? Would we accept a Fountain of Youth if what we had to sacrifice, is youth itself? Continue reading
Review: The Forest of Hands and Teeth
She dreams of the ocean. Something she’s never seen and many tell her doesn’t exist. As long as she’s lived, she has only known a world surrounded by a forest containing a fate worse than death – literally.
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Review: Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt ISBN: 9780374378486 Farrar, Straus and Giroux Young Adult Fiction/Fantasy, ages 9 & up ALA Notable Book, Janusz Korczak Medal, 1976 Christopher Award for Best Book for Young People FTC Disclosure: Purchased I am not much for prologues, … Continue reading
Review: A Certain Slant of Light
A Certain Slant of Light by Laura Whitcomb (2005) Young Adult Fiction, 288 pages Graphia Books an Imprint of Houghton Mifflin Co. Read for the Triple 8 Challenge Plot: In the class of the high school English teacher she … Continue reading
Review: Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer (2005) Young Adult Fiction, 498 pages Little, Brown and Company Paperback Edition, 2006 Part I of the Twilight Saga Series I believe this was one of the first YA (Young Adult) titles I have read. Since … Continue reading