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Tag Archives: young adult
What we’re reading Wednesday: ‘Eleanor & Park’ by Rainbow Rowell
Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell St. Martin’s Griffin • $18.99 • ISBN 9781250012579 Published February 26, 2013 Ages 13 and up Pretty much every YA novel that comes out these days has at least some element of romance. With … Continue reading
Tammara Webber on “New Adult” lit
More and more often we’re hearing about self-published e-book sensations that go viral and eventually get scooped up by traditional publishers. With more than 150,000 e-books sold in the U.S. (not to mention the weeks it has spent on the … Continue reading
What we’re reading Wednesday: ‘Out of the Easy’ by Ruta Sepetys
Out of the Easy by Ruta Sepetys Philomel • $17.99 • ISBN 9780399256929 On sale February 12, 2013 When we blogged about Sepetys’ new book a month ago, BookPage readers were so excited. So, in honor of Teen Read Week … Continue reading
Trailer Tuesday: ‘Son’ by Lois Lowry
Lois Lowry‘s The Giver won a Newbery Medal for its thought-provoking exploration of a world without choices. Then came Gathering Blue and Messenger, which explore the same haunting themes. Technically for children, these books and the questions they invoke have … Continue reading
YA trend report: Under the sea
These days, tales of mermaids in young adult fiction are a far cry from The Little Mermaid. Mermaids are more like monsters than princesses, and their stories are some of the most violent and graphic in the teen genre. Nevertheless, … Continue reading
What we’re reading Wednesday: ‘The Diviners’ by Libba Bray
The Diviners by Libba Bray Little, Brown • $19.99 • ISBN 9780316126113 On sale September 18, 2012 Ages 15 and up With the recent news that Baz Luhrmann’s take on The Great Gatsby (Fitz, help us) has been pushed back … Continue reading
Trailer Tuesday: ‘Between the Lines’ by Jodi Picoult and Samantha van Leer
Ever wished the handsome hero in the book you’re reading could jump out of the page and into your life? That is just what happens in Jodi Picoult’s new teen novel, Between the Lines, written with her 16-year-old daughter Samantha … Continue reading
Why I hate writing: guest post by Randy Russell
Novelist Randy Russell has been nominated for the Edgar award for his mysteries for adults. Now, he turns his attention to a YA audience with Dead Rules (HarperTeen), an imaginative take on the paranormal trend that ponders what a human … Continue reading
Good news for ‘Gleeks’
If you’re an avid Glee fan like me, last night’s season finale was more bitter than sweet. Sure, the kids from New Directions sang their hearts out at regionals, several romantic entanglements got even more complicated and Quinn finally had … Continue reading
Book title of the day
I had to smile when I noticed a deal for a book called Hold Me Closer Necromancer in a recent edition of Publisher’s Lunch. Lish McBride, you have set the bar high for the title of the sequel, which was … Continue reading
Creating organic characters: Is it in the stars?
Author (and double Gemini!) Bonnie Hearn Hill launches a new young adult series, Star Crossed, this month. In a guest post, she explains how astrology can help a writer get to know her characters. Share your thoughts on her post … Continue reading
Big bucks for Bray
We were happy to hear that Libba Bray has signed a contract with Little, Brown Books for Young Readers to write a new YA series for major bucks—$2 million, rumor has it. Editor Megan Tingley (who also publishes Stephenie Meyer) … Continue reading
From "A Million" to "Number Four"
If you read James Frey’s much-contested memoir, A Million Little Pieces, or his followup novel, Bright Shiny Morning, and thought to yourself, This guy should be writing young adult books!—well, you were way ahead of me. But indeed, Frey and … Continue reading
