Today we welcome New York Times bestselling author Neal Shusterman to the blog. Thunderhead, the follow-up to his stellar, Printz honoree Scythe, hits shelves next week. The series is set in a future world in which death has been eliminated, and the ending of lives turned over to a class known as the Scythes. They’re […]
Sometimes, we just want to read something exciting—a page-turning book that will keep us up late into the night as we have to read more, more, more! If you have a young reader in your life who loves spy stories, mysteries, and secrets, then we have a list of books to satisfy their need for […]
These days, technology is just a part of the average kid’s life. Students start using computers as young as pre-school, and by middle school many of them already have their own cell phones (check out Well, That Was Awkward by Rachel Vail for some great cell phone related middle school drama). And these little budding technophiles […]
It would be nice if we lived in a world where all of our heroes got along and agreed on everything. But now, more than ever, that is not the case—just look at the upcoming superhero movie slate: Superman is fighting Batman; Captain America is taking on Iron Man! Has the world gone mad?? The one thing we can count […]
Science fiction and fantasy books are generally lumped together in a larger category called Speculative Fiction—but, usually, the two genres don’t really intermingle within the same book. It’s rare that you find a sci-fi book that makes you feel like you’re living in a world of magic, which is what makes Neal Shusterman and Eric […]