Category Archives: young adult
Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
Recommended for: fans YA UF, Pride reads Read in August 2021 ★ ★ ★ Oh, I knew what I was getting into. You should too. Cemetery Boys is definitely young adult, young teenage level with angst on the level … Continue reading
Calling on Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede
Recommended for fans of cracked fairy tales Read in August 2021 ★ ★ My least favorite of the Enchanted Forest Chronicles. When I recently acquired the e-box set, I discovered Wrede put a little introduction in front of each … Continue reading
Dealing with Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede
Recommended for: fans of fractured fairy tales Read in August 2021 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Charming and cute. Nostalgia and a sale on the electronic boxed set brought this to my attention; while I have the paperback set, … Continue reading
European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman by Theodora Goss
Read June 2021★ ★ 1/2 To be blunt, this was a chore. Though the premise was intriguing–the female children of some of book-history’s most villainous men come together as a Society–the execution made it an exercise in perseverance. But that … Continue reading
Three Times Lucky by Shiela Turnage
Read December 2020 Recommended for fans of plucky young detectives ★ ★ ★ ★ Occasionally I dip my toe into the waters of middle-grade fiction, hoping for that playful feeling of reading The Size of the Truth … Continue reading
Sisters by Raina Telgemeier
Read November 2020 Recommended for people who don’t understand sisters ★ ★ Do you remember how it feels to spend a long road trip in the car, arguing with your sibling? Telgemeier has been kind enough to … Continue reading
The School for Good and Evil by Soman Chainani
Read September 2020 Recommended for seriously hetronorms ★ No one knows a girls’ friendship like a guy, amIrite? Just kidding, totally sexist of me, just like this entire hetronormative mess of a Hogwarts derivative with more contradictory messaging … Continue reading
Adventures of a Dwergish Girl by Daniel Pinkwater
Read April 2020 Recommended for fans of New England, YA ★ ★ Somehow, I missed Pinkwater’s works when I was growing up. I rectified that not long ago when Sarah B. pointed me towards Lizard Music, a delightfully … Continue reading
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
Read December 2019 Recommended for middle school detectives ★ ★ ★ ★ The Westing Game is first full-length mystery I remember reading. Well, besides Encyclopedia Brown and Nancy Drew books. But the one mystery that I could still … Continue reading
Lizard Music by D. Manus Pinkwater
Read November 2019 Recommended for ten-year-olds and Reynolds ★ ★ ★ ★ I had lizards when I was young, so it stands to reason that a book titled “Lizard Music” would appeal. With allergies to fur and … Continue reading
