Book Reviews
George R. R. Martin is best known for penning his A Song of Ice and Fire fantasy saga, the basis for HBO's crazy-popular series Game of Thrones. Speaking from personal experience, it's shamefully easy for fans of that franchise to forget just how prolific he is. Admittedly, ASOIAF is pretty...
My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Storiesedited by Stephanie PerkinsHigh School St. Martin’s Griffin 323 pp.10/14 978-1-250-05930-7 $18.99 ge-book ed. 978-1-4668-6389-7 $9.99Holiday romance is the connecting link for the twelve tales included in this highly enjoyable anthology by a dozen well-known young adult authors, including Rainbow Rowell, Matt...
Since 2013, Lizzie Skurnick Books (LSB; an imprint of Ig Publishing) has been handpicking and reissuing "the very best in young adult literature, from the classics of the 1930s and 1940s to the social novels of the 1970s and 1980s." The list gained a passel of built-in followers with the release...
Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feelby Sara FarizanHigh School Algonquin 296 pp.10/14 978-1-61620-284-2 $16.95 ge-book ed. 978-1-61620-435-8 $16.95Sixteen-year-old Iranian American Leila Azadi is, in her own words, a “Persian scaredy-cat.” Afraid to tell her best friends and her conservative family that she is gay, Leila finds herself in...
Gracefully Graysonby Ami PolonskyIntermediate, Middle School Hyperion 247 pp.11/14 978-1-4231-8527-7 $16.99Grayson, a sixth grader at Porter Middle School, passes the time doodling and daydreaming about what it would be like to go through life as a girl, despite being seen by everyone else as male. Struggling with the total isolation...
Nuts to Youby Lynne Rae Perkins; illus. by the authorIntermediate Greenwillow 260 pp.8/14 978-0-06-009275-7 $16.99e-book ed. 978-0-06-226220-2 $8.99Jed the squirrel’s odyssey begins dramatically when he is captured by a hawk and carried far away from his community. Using an “ancient squirrel defensive martial art,” he escapes and so begins his...
The Spiritglass Charade [Stoker & Holmes]by Colleen GleasonMiddle School, High School Chronicle 356 pp.10/14 978-1-4521-1071-4 $17.99 gIn the second Stoker & Holmes mystery (The Clockwork Scarab, rev. 9/13), the royal family enlists the teenage protagonists to investigate whether a young lady, Willa Ashton — who believes she can communicate with...
Tea time! Photo: Elissa GershowitzGail Carriger introduced readers to her alternate Victorian London — chock-full of steampunk technology and supernatural characters — in 2009 with Soulless, the first volume of her five-book adult series The Parasol Protectorate. The Finishing School series, a YA prequel series set in the same world,...
This week’s topic is “Beyond the World We Know” — a category that encompasses an extensive range of books, from magical realism to science fiction to the far away places of imaginary worlds. Jane Langton’s classic piece on fantasy from the 1973 Horn Book, “The Weak Place in the Cloth”...
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