MORE 'MYSTERIES' POSTS
“I found out two things today. One, I think I’m dying. And two, my brother is a perv.” So begins the diary of 14-year-old Jenna Samuels, who is having a very bad eighth-grade year. Her single mother spends all day in bed. Dad vanished when she was eight. Her 16-year-old brother, Casey, tries to hold […]
17-year-old Sophie lies on her deathbed in California, awaiting the inevitable loss of her battle with cancer…17-year-old Declan stares down two armed thugs in a back alley in Galway, Ireland…17-year-old Anat attempts to traverse a booby-trapped tunnel between Israel and Egypt… All three strangers should have died at the exact same moment, thousands of miles […]
Sixteen-year-old Devon Mackintosh has always felt like an outsider at Keaton, the prestigious California boarding school perched above the Pacific. As long as she’s not fitting in, Devon figures she might as well pad her application to Stanford’s psych program. So junior year, she decides to become a peer counselor, a de facto therapist for […]
Can you imagine the most cantankerous book editor alive? Part Voldemort, part Cruella de Vil (if she were a dude), and worse in appearance and odor than a gluttonous farm pig? A man who makes no secret of his love of cheese or his disdain of unworthy authors? That man is Herman Mildew. The anthology […]
Allie Kim suffers from Xeroderma Pigmentosum: a fatal allergy to sunlight that confines her and her two best friends, Rob and Juliet, to the night. When freewheeling Juliet takes up Parkour—the stunt-sport of scaling and leaping off tall buildings—Allie and Rob have no choice but to join her, if only to protect her. Though potentially […]
While in Anaheim at ALA ’12, I had the pleasure of being introduced to Daniel Ehrenhaft and Meredith Barnes who were more than eager to tell me about the new endeavor of SOHO Press, an imprint dedicated to YA mysteries! I was more than intrigued and after a lovely champagne toast and kickoff, I knew […]
Book Review: The Dead and the Buried by Kim Harrington
| Book Reviews, Contemporary Fiction, Kim Harrington, Mysteries, The Dead and the Buried
“Jade. . .” The voice came again. Sure now, I threw off the covers and padded into the hallway, wincing at the noisy floorboards. I peeked my head into Colby’s room. He was sleeping- fitfully. He groaned and rolled over, then back again. I tiptoed down to my parents’ room. Marie was sleeping […]
These are a few of my favorite reads: the 2012 Karen edition
| Boys, Dystopian, favorite things, Fiction, Horror, Humor, Mysteries, Realistic Fiction, Tween, YA Lit, Zombies
Raindrops on roses and zombies eating kittens, Bright copper boys and warm fuzzy kisses, Page after page, turning with need These are a few of my favorite reads . . . MG Reads, approved by my tweenThe One and Only Ivan by Katherine ApplegateLiar & Spy by Rebecca SteadWonder by R J PalacioThe Cavendish Home […]
What do Area 51, the Bermuda Triangle and The Great Pyramid at Giza all have in common? They are some of the great world mysteries that we like to debate and discuss. They are also some of the topics discussed in Dead Strange: the bizarre truths behind 50 world-famous mysteries by Matt Lamy. Dead Strange […]
I eat cereal, but I am not a serial killer (Serial Killers in YA Lit)
| Barry Lyga, Dan Wells, Jack the Ripper, Lionel Shriver, Maureen Johnson, Mysteries, Robert Cormier, Serial Killers, Thrillers
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 […]
ADVERTISEMENT
Archives
ADVERTISEMENT