SPRAY is an action-packed book and a lot of fun to read. It’s like the action movie/video game of young adult novels. It is a book that a lot of boys would like because it combines the suspense, adventure, mystery/spy, and video game genres into one plot-driven story. The story begins the night before the […]
I've Accepted! The 2011 Debut Author Challenge
One of the blogs that I read and heard about a lot when I started my book review blog was Kristi’s aka: The Story Siren. She reviews a lot of YA books, and does some awesome community building of YA bloggers and promoting of books and authors. You’ve seen my In My Mailbox posts which […]
MATCHED by Ally Condie
MATCHED (out today) by Ally Condie is a book about a dystopian society that thinks it is utopian. In the same vein as The Giver and The Hunger Games, there is a main character who has bought into the way society has been made better, but through the course of events in the story, begins to […]
In My Mailbox – New Books This Week (7)
In My Mailbox is a shared posting concept/listing from The Story Siren for YA book bloggers to share titles that have been arriving and will be showing up in reviews soon (read about what it is and how it got started here: In My Mailbox). This will be a semi-regular feature on Teach 8 YA Book Blog.This […]
Authors I Heard at ALAN
When I went to the ALAN Workshop early last week, I was lucky enough to hear a wonderful lineup of YA authors talking about their books and writing related to the theme of the workshop: Looking for the Real Me: The Search for Self in Young Adult LiteratureI haven’t had time to inventory the multitude […]
ALAN Here I Come!
I’m super excited to be heading to the ALAN (Assembly on Literature for Adolescents of the NCTE) Workshop for the third year! My first year was in San Antonio and I met Rick Riordan, read Little Brother by Cory Doctorow, and discovered e lockheart and her fabulous book The Disreputable History of Frankie Landeau-Banks. My second […]
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