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Dan Wells

October 8, 2012 by Karen Jensen, MLS

I eat cereal, but I am not a serial killer (Serial Killers in YA Lit)

This is a completely true story:  One day I was picking my 6 year-old daughter up from Vacation Bible School and when I asked her how it was she said, “It was good.  No one put duct tape on my mouth and locked me in the trunk.”  As you can imagine, this was not the […]

April 23, 2012 by Karen Jensen, MLS

TLT Teen Review: Partials by Dan Wells

The world is a harsh place to live. After the war with the Partials—super engineered organic beings that mimic humans in every way apart from their super-advanced assassin skills and military thinking—the population has been irreparably decimated. Along with the release of RM—a deadly virus with no cure released by the Partials, the entire race […]

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