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Tonight we’re going to party likes it’s 1962! When you find that your boyfriend is cheating on you with a cyber wife, there is only one thing you can do – swear off all technology and return to a time where life was simpler. That’s right, Mallory is Going Vintage. Back to the 1960s, 1962, […]
Get a Clue! What Makes a Mystery GOOD? I’m a sucker for mysteries. I like the murder mysteries best and I’m always on the lookout for more teen mysteries. The bulk of mysteries I read are adult cozies, often from a series. Here’s what I like about mysteries. The Top 10 Clues to a Mystery […]
Book Review: Sparks by S.J. Adams
Book Reviews, Contemporary Fiction, GLBTQ Fiction, SJ Adams, Sparks
|Ten Commandments of the Holy Church of Blue Matters of the heart come first. Especially someone else’s heart. Be thou not an asshole. This is the point to all religion. Everything else is just commentary. But exceptions can be made for people who deserve it. Goest thou on holy quests- do amazing things. Silly, helpful, […]
I LOVE having movie nights with my teens. It doesn’t matter what type of movie it is, it seems like we always have a good time, and it is one of my least labor-intensive programs because I find the movie, double check that it works with my umbrella movie licensing agreement, figure out a simple craft […]
Some children are born to monsters, and 19-year-old Ryan Burke is one of those boys. He grew up on a farm under the thumb of a monster wearing the mask of a man, a man that he called father. As his father’s violence grew, Ryan shrank. Until one morning, his father tells him his mother […]
If you know anything by now, you know I don’t tend to run in normal circles, no matter what I look like. So it stands to reason that I don’t do conferences as a normal, either. Maybe it’s the anxiety, maybe it’s my brain, who knows, but I just don’t seem to fit a typical […]
When 16-year-old Abigail’s mother dies in Scotland–leaving a faded photo, a weirdly cryptic letter, and a one-way ticket to America–she feels nothing. Why should she? Her mother gave her away when she was a baby, leaving her to grow up on an anti-nuclear commune and then in ugly foster homes. But the letter is a surprise […]
“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 […]
“Dear Abby, My parents don’t let me go out with my friends, even though I’m an A student.” “Dear Abby, My dad is overseas in the military and my mom seems like she’s under a lot of stress and is taking it out on me.” Dear Abby wrote a book for teens in 1960. Image […]
Get Your Generations On! (Older characters in YA lit – and my grandma)
Collection Development, Fiction, Multi generational relationships, Take 5, Teen Issues, YA Lit
|It seems a truism in YA lit that adults often seem far and few between. Even when they are there, they don’t often play a significant role. And older adults? Forget about it. I have really been thinking about this since our discussion earlier this week about siblings in YA lit: Siblings? We don’t need […]
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