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Take 5: Sci Crossover Authors for YA Looking for More
adult authors, crossovers, Fantasy, Reader's Advisory, Science Fiction, Take 5
|If your teens are like mine, once you find a voracious reader you cannot keep them satisfied and if they’re in love with a particular genre they will STAY there until all option are exhausted. While we’ve been talking about ‘new adults’ in YA, teens crossing over and back into the adult section is nothing new, but […]
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 […]
Shelftalkers: Off the Page
Between the Lines, Cornelia Funke, Fantasy, Inkheart, Jodi Picoult, Michael Ende, Neil Gaiman, Shelftalkers, Stardust, Take 5, The Neverending Story, The Princess Bride, William Goldman
|Once upon a time, there was a book. Not content to just be a book, it decided to come alive. Its characters jumped off the page, defying convention. They chose to be other than what they were written to be. They chose to make the fairy tale come true. Some fairy tales are so magical, […]
These days it seems like Hollywood is raiding YA fiction for it’s screenplays. We have Beautiful Creatures, City of Bones, and Ender’s Game to look forward to, while every day it seems another news release screams another book has been optioned, sometimes even before the series is complete (*cough* Insurgent *cough*). So I thought that while we’re talking crossovers for teens, we could […]
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