Category Archives: young adult
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
The Seventh Bride by T. Kingfisher
Read April 2019 Recommended for fans of feminist fairy tales ★ ★ ★ ★ T. Kingfisher stories have a kind of magic for me. They seem to be exactly what I need to read at that point in … Continue reading
Helen and Troy’s Epic Road Quest by A. Lee Martinez
Read February 2019 Recommended for fans of YA road trips 2.75 ★ A. Lee Martinez is hit and miss for me; two of his books are ridiculously fun (Gil’s All Fright Diner, Emperor Mollusk), a couple absolutely aren’t, … Continue reading
A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo
Read March 2018 Recommended for fans of acceptance, gay marriage, hopping, voting ★ ★ ★ ★ A sweet little story about bunnies falling in love and an animal revolution in one. I would have passed, because I suspected it would … Continue reading
The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman. I’d go there.
Read January 2018 Recommended for YA adventurers and librarians ★ ★ ★ 1/2 Titles with ‘library’ and ‘bookstore’ are irresistible to readers. Add in a cover that looks like faded and cracked leather with gilt lettering and it is … Continue reading
