October means mellowcreme pumpkins, finding five bucks in the pocket of last year’s coat (and spending it on more mellowcreme pumpkins), and BOOKS, BOOKS, BOOKS! From the first fantasy YA of a favorite author to a Gilded Age thriller to retellings of “The Wild Swans” and the Orpheus myth, here are 20 of the month’s most exciting […]
This week’s most exciting new releases will take you behind the Hollywood scenes, on a Marvelous journey, and into the dark mind of a twisted villainess. Here are the books worth skipping dinner, the gym, and sleep for right now.
I’m addicted to YA fantasy books that tweak the tropes (or ignore them altogether), that mess with old tales till they’re utterly new, that commit themselves to a wild premise and ride it out all the way to its magnificent end. All of these magically weird books fit the bill, including riffs on Greek and Russian myth, dystopian underworlds, […]
If you know one thing about author David Almond, it’s probably that he has won a lot of awards. Like, a LOT, including the Carnegie, the Whitbread (twice), the Michael L. Printz, the Hans Christian Anderson, and many others. What you may not know is that this former teacher usually sets his books in the place […]
Drama. Romance. Betrayal—lots of betrayal. Classic mythology and YA lit have more than a few things in common. And because I love them both equally, here’s a list of YA must-reads for anyone who has ever worked their way through a great big collection of classic Greek myths…and wished the stories were just a little bit […]