Part 4: YALSA names 2010 top books for teens

This past week, the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), named its 2010 list of Best Books for Young Adults. This week, Novel Novice will be featuring the top 10, so here are the titles for day four: The Orange Houses by Paul Griffin Summary: Meet Tamika Sykes—Mik to her friends (if she had any). She’s hearing impaired and [...]

Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows in 3D!

It sounds like Warner Brothers is getting ready to announce that it will release Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows Parts 1 & 2 in 3D!! Warner Brothers is expected to announce this week that it will release the two-part movie adaptation of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in 3D. These will [...]

Stephenie Meyer recommends books, music & movies

Twilight author Stephenie Meyer has updated her official website this morning with a bevy of recommendations. For books, she recommends The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows. Meyer writes: It was one of those books that feel absolutely perfect and satisfying, and when you finish it you [...]

Part III: YALSA names 2010 top books for teens

This past week, the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), named its 2010 list of Best Books for Young Adults. This week, Novel Novice will be featuring the top 10, so here are day three’s titles. Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland by Sally M. Walker and Demon’s Lexicon by Sarah Rees Brennan. Synopsis: Bright white [...]

Sneak Peek: The Mortal Instruments Graphic Novel

Fans of Cassandra Clare’s The Mortal Instruments series are getting pumped up for the graphic novel adaptation of the best-selling series … and today, via Cassie herself, we have a sneak peek at some of the artwork: See loads more at Cassie’s blog! For the comments: What do  you think of the graphic novel images [...]

Part II: YALSA names 2010 top books for teens

This past week, the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), named its 2010 list of Best Books for Young Adults. This week, Novel Novice will be featuring the top 10, so be sure to check back all week and tell us if you’ve read them, and if you agree with the choices. Yesterday, we featured Alligator Bayou, by Donna [...]

Twilight Saga: New Moon DVD: Which one is best for you?

This news comes via our sister site, Novel Novice Twilight: The Twilight Saga: New Moon DVD goes on pre-sale today … but WAIT! Don’t pre-order yours until you know which version you want! As with last year’s Twilight DVD, there are a number of different versions being made available through various retailers. So don’t pre-order [...]

New YA Releases: Jan. 26th, 2010

Time for Tuesday book releases — yay!!! I Kissed a Zombie, and I Liked It by Adam Selzer Algonquin “Ali” Rhodes, the high school newspaper’s music critic, meets an intriguing singer, Doug, while reviewing a gig. He’s a weird-looking guy—goth, but he seems sincere about it, like maybe he was into it back before it [...]

Ink Pop – Novel Novice Staff Submission

As we reported earlier today, there is a great site for fans and writers of Teen Lit called Ink Pop. I have been   working on a YA novel off and on for a little over two years. About a month ago I began querying agents (which is an adventure on its own). I posted the [...]

It’s a popularity contest at Teen Fire!

Teen Fire — the social networking site for Sourcebooks Fire — is launching a popularity contest today for websites and bloggers, and we need YOUR help to win. So why should you help us? Well, the winning site gets an amazing prize pack of books, including first editions of ALL upcoming Spring Sourcebooks Fire titles, [...]

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