Category Archives: young adult
Lumberjanes Vol.2 Friendship to the Max!
Read July 2017 Recommended for chicks who love camping or graphic novels ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Score! For a person who ordinarily struggles with the format of graphic novels, this series is the max, adorbs, the bomb, rad, … Continue reading
Lumberjanes: Beware the Kitten Holy by Stevenson, Ellis, Watters, and Allen
Read June 2017 Recommended for people in the mood for fun! Pow! Friends to the max! ★ ★ ★ 1/2 I’m really not one for graphic novels; the form generally misses me. But I kept seeing Lumberjanes appear on my … Continue reading
Castle Hangnail by Ursula Vernon
Read February 2017 Recommended for fans of fairy tales and clever girls ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Castle Hangnail is unbelievably charming and one of the first reads of the year to make it to my ‘to … Continue reading
Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians by Brandon Sanderson, or Author’s Notes to Way of Kings
Read August 2016 Recommended for librarians, fans of Lemony Snicket and Artemis Fowl ★ ★ ★ Also known as The Official Author’s Notes for The Way of Kings. Stay with me. The first clue is in Chapter 2. “I’ve … Continue reading
The Pygmy Dragon by Marc Secchia. Or, Back to class!
Read July 2016 Recommended for the author. To re-work. ★ “This week’s assignment will be to write two chapters of a young adult book about a Pygmy girl, dragons and special powers.” At least, that’s how I imagine The … Continue reading
The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Read June 2016 Recommended for young adult readers, fans of imagination ★ ★ ★ 1/2 Based on Wanda’s excellent review, as well as my own fondness for ancient Egypt, I picked up this young adult book … Continue reading
Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld
Read February 2016 Recommended for fans of young adult, biotech, Austria ★ ★ ★ An Adventure in Which an Aristocratic Young Man Discovers How to Pilot an All-Terrain Walker and that he is Now an Orphan, and a … Continue reading
Shadowshaper by Daniel Jose Older
Read October 2015 Recommended for fans of urban fantasy, UF ★ ★ ★ ★ I’m rather annoyed by the label ‘message fiction,’ as I feel like it implies everything else doesn’t have a message. Yet I suppose … Continue reading
Positive by David Wellington. Not so much.
Read September 2015 Recommended for fans of YA and zombies. And flat story-telling ★ ★ See Finn and his parents. See Finn leave New York. See Finn fight off a scary woman. See Finn meet a man traveling with … Continue reading
The Artful by Wilbert Stanton. Not really.
Read July 2015 Recommended for tolerant fans of young adult dystopias who want to read a movie script ★ 1/2 Truthfully, I can only blame myself. With a well-known addiction to the apocalypse (but a choosy one), a kindle … Continue reading
