The beauty of The Unwanteds by Lisa McMann is that it is classic middle-grade; a colorful, creative children’s adventure that celebrates imagination, fantasy, and fun. The key is to approach it as such. Admittedly, with reviews touting this dystopian fantasy as the next The Hunger Games and Harry Potter, my expectations were not only too high,... Continue Reading →
The beauty of The Unwanteds by Lisa McMann is that it is classic middle-grade; a colorful, creative children’s adventure that celebrates imagination, fantasy, and fun. The key is to approach it as such. Admittedly, with reviews touting this dystopian fantasy as the next The Hunger Games and Harry Potter, my expectations were not only too high,... Continue Reading →
Dystopian fiction is everywhere these days, especially on the YA shelves. But when it's done well, it deserves to be given a major shout-out to help it stand out from the crowd -- and that's certainly the case with Starters by Lissa Price: Callie lost her parents when the Spore Wars wiped out everyone between... Continue Reading →
Dystopian fiction is everywhere these days, especially on the YA shelves. But when it's done well, it deserves to be given a major shout-out to help it stand out from the crowd -- and that's certainly the case with Starters by Lissa Price: Callie lost her parents when the Spore Wars wiped out everyone between... Continue Reading →
Today's Middle Grade March book review comes from our Middle Grade staffer 11-year-old Elena! * * * Wildwood by Colin Meloy & Carson Ellis Prue, a 12-year-old girl who loves drawing nature and lives in the city of rainy Portland, Oregon, is quite average. Until, one day as she and her toddler brother, Mac, go... Continue Reading →
Once again, Veronica Wollf is back with another action-packed, no-holds-barred approach to vampires in the second book of her series The Watchers,Vampire's Kiss -- in stores tomorrow. Vampire's Kiss picks up where book 1, Isle of Night, left off -- but the stakes for Drew are higher than ever, as she gets closer to the... Continue Reading →
Once again, Veronica Wollf is back with another action-packed, no-holds-barred approach to vampires in the second book of her series The Watchers,Vampire's Kiss -- in stores tomorrow. Vampire's Kiss picks up where book 1, Isle of Night, left off -- but the stakes for Drew are higher than ever, as she gets closer to the... Continue Reading →
If an edge-of-your-seat crime mystery thrill ride is what you're looking for in your next read, then I'd recommend pre-ordering your copy of The Night She Disappeared by April Henry as soon as possible. Henry takes another real-life crime story as her inspiration for her latest YA thriller, in stores March 13th: Gabie drives a... Continue Reading →
If an edge-of-your-seat crime mystery thrill ride is what you're looking for in your next read, then I'd recommend pre-ordering your copy of The Night She Disappeared by April Henry as soon as possible. Henry takes another real-life crime story as her inspiration for her latest YA thriller, in stores March 13th: Gabie drives a... Continue Reading →
I was a fan of the Evernight series from the very start, and was very happy with how the series tied up in last year's Afterlife. So happy that I didn't even realize I wanted more ... until I picked up Balthazar by Claudia Gray, a companion novel that takes place after the events of... Continue Reading →
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