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  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/2/20 Edition

    01 The Fighting Bunch: The Battle of Athens by Chris DeRose The young men of McMinn County, Tennessee Centuries later, Addie meets a young man in a hidden-away bookstore--and he's the first person in almost Schwab publishes adult books under this name (and young adult books under the name "Victoria Schwab")

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/7/22 Edition

    The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Rachel Hartman's Tess of the Road, fantasy about a headstrong young comedy and life, Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama; and I'm listening to the first in the prolific Marie Lu's young adult fantasy Legend series. In Hartman's Tess of the Road, Tess doesn't fit the mold of an obedient, quiet young woman in her medieval

  • Review of Boys & Sex by Peggy Orenstein

    The young men Orenstein interviewed share their experiences with intimacy, yearn for bigger conversations Orenstein, who also authored Girls & Sex, wrote Boys & Sex: Young Men on Hookups, Love, Porn, Consent So she spent two years interviewing young men ages sixteen to twenty-two of different races, straight adults, 60 percent of whom said they and an adult had not had a conversation on these topics. Orenstein pushes parents and trusted adults to "challenge the unwritten rules of male socialization,

  • Review of The People We Keep by Allison Larkin

    security and without providing any foundation for her life--and are largely not even present, forcing young If you like stories about young protagonists facing challenges and realizing their fortitude, you might also like the standout books on the Greedy Reading List Six Fantastic Stand-Alone Young Adult Books.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/10/21 Edition

    finding identity, eschewing societal fears and superstition, and belonging; a mystery novel about a brave young woman shaped by her Native American heritage; and a young adult book set in an alternate world where North It's 1894, and seventeen-year-old Ada is a newlywed, falling into the path set out for her as a young When she meets Jamie, a handsome young man on her brother's hockey team, he seems like a much-needed As each young woman enters her magical "changeling" period in which her permanent markings (which carry

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/17/20 Edition

    But I'm still excited to read Marie Lu's latest young adult science fiction/fantasy book, the first in Lu has written the Legends, Young Elites, and Warcross series. 02 The Skylark's Secret by Fiona Valpy Casey is in the awkward, sometimes painful age and stage of shifting from young adulthood to being a

  • Review of How to End a Love Story by Yulin Kuang

    A successful young-adult author, shy Helen is excited to be part of the adaptation of her work into a

  • Review of As Good As Dead (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder #3) by Holly Jackson

    heart-pounding pacing, captivating character development, and dark turns in this third book in her young adult mystery series.

  • Review of The Unsinkable Greta James by Jennifer E. Smith

    loved the glimpses into Greta's musical aspirations and inspirations--and the brief exchanges with her young Smith is also the author of nine books for young adults, including The Statistical Probability of Love

  • Six Fascinating Dystopian and Postapocalyptic Novels

    The thief came and shattered what was left of young Griz's life. This is listed as an adult title but felt to me like a dark young adult postapocalyptic novel, and it Naomi Alderman offers a dark and fascinating look at a world where the traditional male-female and old-young Samrina Khan, the head epidemiologist; single-minded young Stephen the wunderkind; gruff, bighearted

  • Shhh! Science and Nature Bossy Book Gift Ideas

    inclusion of the viewer and the science focus reminds me of a different but favorite book gift of mine for young adults and teens, This Book Is a Planetarium (listed on a past book gift idea list, Shhh! An Immense World is the newest book by Ed Yong, author of I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us , this young readers' version of Packing for Mars (originally published for adults--another great gift idea) feels like a great bet for keeping curious young people engaged with science and space.

  • Six Science Fiction Favorites to Dive Into

    Way to a Small, Angry Planet, the first science fiction title in Becky Chambers's Wayfarers series, young Six Great Stories about Robots, Humans and Alien Life, and AI. 05 Girl One by Sara Flannery Murphy Young adult Josie's origins--specifically her immaculate conception--have overshadowed everything else in Young adult Josie is Girl One, the first of nine baby girls who were famously conceived without male When her mother disappears, Josie begins to track down the other Girls, and together the young women

  • Review of A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

    In A Court of Thorns and Roses, the first of five books in Maas's series of the same name, young Feyre I resisted reading this young adult fantasy for a long while. I liked the brave young female protagonist in Maas's book Throne of Glass (Throne of Glass #1), but I

  • Review of Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara

    Despite the mysterious disappearances of children that are at the heart of the story, this primarily felt young adult and light to me. It is told in young Jai’s point of view and primarily focuses on his outlandish ideas for becoming a

  • Review of Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao

    Widow, Xiran Jay Zhao blends Chinese folklore with science-fiction robots and aliens in this feminist young adult action story.

  • Review of A Conjuring of Light (Shades of Magic #3) by V.E. Schwab

    The series is adult fantasy but would be appropriate for a young adult reader--if not averse to Lila's

  • Review of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab

    Then Addie meets a young man in a hidden-away bookstore--and he's the first person in almost three hundred Schwab publishes adult books under this name (and young adult books under the name "Victoria Schwab")

  • Six Books about Brave Female Spies

    For my full review, see The Huntress. 03 Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein In Wein's young adult historical The plane's young pilot and its passenger are best friends, but only one of the girls survives. worth a slot on your to-read list. 05 Wolf by Wolf by Ryan Graudin This is the first book in Graudin's young adult duology (the second, Blood by Blood, is also great). Yael, a tough young woman who escaped from a concentration camp, has been training as a spy for years

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/23/21 Edition

    early twentieth century New York and his mysterious death; and a science fiction-slanted story about young book courtesy of Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group and NetGalley. 03 Girl One by Sara Flannery Murphy Young adult Josie is Girl One, the first of nine baby girls who were famously conceived without male sperm

  • August Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    this book, please see Life After Life. 05 Instructions for Dancing by Nicola Yoon This light fiction young adult novel offers (reluctant) romance, best friendships, dance lessons, glimpses into the future, a In the newest young adult book by Nicola Yoon, teenaged Evie Thomas is reeling from her parents' divorce

  • April Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    missing persons detective who experiences a personal tragedy and dives into solving the disappearances of young adult story about darkness, desperation, and brave young characters cobbling together hope. Old friends resurface, pulling Anna out of herself, and when other young girls go missing, the draw of adult novel What Beauty There Is, Jack and his brother are painfully poor and living alone in rural The main protagonists are young, but their concerns are weighty.

  • Six Historical Fiction Mysteries to Intrigue You

    Veronica is a curious young Victorian-era lady with progressive ideas, and I adore how matter-of-factly A hundred and fifty years later, a young archivist, Elodie Winslow, is drawn to the long-ago mystery. Jackaby is the first in the young adult supernatural mystery series of the same name, and in it, author Ji Lin is a young girl who would have dreamed of becoming a doctor if society would have allowed it, There's magical realism at the heart of this book, and Choo also examines colonialism, superstition, and young

  • Shhh! Kid and Teen Book Gift Ideas for the Holidays

    through the lens of our US men's team experience. 02 Pretty Funny for a Girl by Rebecca Elliott In this young adult novel (ages 12 to 16) that's one of my current reads--and published by my favorite publisher for young people, Peachtree Publishing--Rebecca Elliott offers an irresistible heroine in Haylah Swinton always makes me laugh ("Trees block view and there are too many rocks") . 04 The Complete Cookbook for Young This cookbook offers doable and fun science experiments and interesting facts to train a budding young

  • Six Wonderfully Witchy Stories to Charm You

    series or Roald Dahl's The Witches, nor did I include the oldie but goodie I was entranced by when I was young magic, here are two other Bossy Bookworm Greedy Reading Lists you might enjoy: Six Royally Magical Young Adult Series and Six Magical Fairy Tales Grown-Ups Will Love. adult trilogy of the same name. Reid is a straitlaced young man for whom things are black-and-white, clearly right and wrong.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/24/21 Edition

    Elle Cosimano, in which a misunderstanding has potentially enormous life-and-death repercussions for a young She's struggling emotionally and financially to support her two young children. book in Turner's Queen's Thief series (which I listed in the Greedy Reading List Six Royally Magical Young Adult Series).

  • Three Wackily Different Books I'm Reading Right Now, 9/12/20 Edition

    hot-tempered, baby-faced Simon evaded a position in the Confederate Army for years by passing as too young Concurrently reading a young adult LGBTQ mystery, a comedian's memoir, and a historical fiction story

  • Review of Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey

    the repeated rite of passage in which his father demanded an all-out brawl with each of his teen or young adult sons; McConaughey recognizes the brutality and the unorthodox approach, but as with other occurrences

  • Six Fantastic Dystopian and Postapocalyptic Novels

    The thief came and shattered what was left of young Griz's life. This is listed as an adult title but felt to me like a dark young adult postapocalyptic novel, and it Naomi Alderman offers a dark and fascinating look at a world where the traditional male-female and old-young Samrina Khan, the head epidemiologist; single-minded young Stephen the wunderkind; gruff, bighearted

  • Six Chilly Books to Read in the Heat of Summer

    This was the author's first young adult book. When we are young, we consume the world in great gulps, and it consumes us, and everything is mysterious

  • Review of The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune

    Especially during Pandemic Times, one of the genres I find myself gravitating toward listening to is young adult fantasy. It felt like a middle-grade novel to me, but it's marketed as a book for adults. threatened); and the themes of acceptance and the clarity of their presentation feel appropriate for young

  • Review of Love and Other Words by Christina Lauren

    But to me, the voices in this book felt self-obsessively and insecurely young adult even in the timeline

  • September Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    I loved the father-daughter bond, and Opal is a wonderfully quirky, self-possessed young person. Learned by Heart by Emma Donoghue Donoghue's captivating historical fiction centers around two real-life young It almost seems as though the school heads would like to forget either of the troublesome young ladies In Ann Patchett's newest novel, Tom Lake, Lara's three young-adult daughters reunite at the family's characters seem affected by the truths that emerge in Lara's telling about Lara herself, Duke, her young

  • Review of When We Were Vikings by Andrew David MacDonald

    structured routines—on certain days she finds her own way to the community center where she and other young adults with challenges and disabilities play and learn social and practical skills; on certain other

  • Six More Wonderfully Witchy Stories to Charm You

    Bohjalian's Hour of the Witch takes place in 1662 Boston, where strong-willed women like main protagonist young I loved that Novik began putting more of the school's fate in the hands of her young characters--and Fairy Tales Grown-Ups Will Love. 06 The Nature of Witches by Rachel Griffin In the world of Griffin's young adult fantasy novel The Nature of Witches, witches control the weather.

  • Six Rockin' Stories about Bands and Music

    Still on my to-read list: the newish The Final Revival of Opal and Nev by Dawnie Walton, the young adult In Leila Sales's young adult book This Song Could Save Your Life, main protagonist Elise doesn't fit

  • March Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    Cyrus Shams is an orphaned young adult, the child of Iranian immigrants, and a recovering addict and about a figure whose existence the Catholic church has officially denied for a thousand years: Joan, a young

  • Six Historical Fiction Mysteries Sure to Intrigue You

    Veronica is a curious young Victorian-era lady with progressive ideas, and I adore how matter-of-factly A hundred and fifty years later, a young archivist, Elodie Winslow, is drawn to the long-ago mystery. Jackaby is the first in the young adult supernatural mystery series of the same name, and in it, author Ji Lin is a young girl who would have dreamed of becoming a doctor if society would have allowed it, There's magical realism at the heart of this book, and Choo also examines colonialism, superstition, and young

  • Six More Time-Travel Stories to Dive Into

    Yesterday by Rebecca Lynn Solomon Rachel Lynn Solomon crafts another sweet, quirky, funny, romantic young adult story that plays with time and is centered around irresistibly imperfect characters. Italian Summer by Rebecca Serle Rebecca Serle's love letter to Italy plays with time to allow a grieving young is a perfectly imperfect heroine and things aren't entirely what they seem in Roth's first novel for adults

  • Six Fascinating Stories Set in Space

    Way to a Small, Angry Planet, the first science fiction title in Becky Chambers's Wayfarers series, young This young adult science fiction story has an irresistible premise: teenaged Romy is the sole survivor But then Romy gets word that another ship has launched from earth, with a young man called J as the pilot

  • Six Novels I Loved Reading Last Year

    In Ann Patchett's novel Tom Lake, Lara's three young-adult daughters reunite at the family's Northern characters seem affected by the truths that emerge in Lara's telling about Lara herself, Duke, her young

  • Six More Science Fiction Reads I Loved in the Past Year

    01 Cold the Night, Fast the Wolves by Meg Long I was hooked by Meg Long's debut young adult science fiction novel about tough young Sena, her skittish fighting wolf Iska, and their desperate journey across the In Meg Long's Cold the Night, Fast the Wolves, young Sena has lost both of her mothers to the brutal But the young woman he has found may have died of an ancient virus, and thawing the body for study could

  • September Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    Now retired, Carrie is a spectator at the US Open when she sees her record challenged by a young upstart It's incredible to see her healthy, vital, young dad. novel explores mortality, vulnerability, surprising moments of joy and reflection, an irresistible young Another novel I loved that involves a precocious, wise, reflective, tough young protagonist is This Is adult life.

  • July Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    01 This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger Krueger's writing is lovely, and while the adult characters sometimes feel like caricatures of evil villains, his young characters and the vivid setting of 1930s encounter various Depression-era characters who are also struggling to get by, there's some chaste young An adult figure with a magical-seeming ability to read people and to heal them becomes a pivotal and In this second and final book in Bardugo's young adult fantasy King of Scars duology, Nikolai, Zoya,

  • Review of Surrender Your Sons by Adam Sass

    The heart of this book is lovely: Connor is a young man figuring out who he is; he feels afraid of the fantasy version--which I'm intrigued by--as well as one set in England and other versions geared toward adult audiences) before he landed on a young adult approach.

  • Six Four-Star Mysteries I Loved Reading in the Past Year

    In order to keep her husband, young daughters, and partner safe, Elise may have to keep some crucial heart-pounding pacing, captivating character development, and dark turns in this third book in her young adult mystery series.

  • January Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    Signal Fires begins with three teenagers drinking in 1985, a car accident, a young doctor Ben Wilf, who Time passes, and a young family moves onto Division Street. Their astronomy-obsessed young son Waldo befriends the retired Dr. heart-pounding pacing, captivating character development, and dark turns in this third book in her young adult mystery series.

  • Six Historical Fiction Mysteries to Intrigue You

    Veronica is a curious young Victorian-era lady with progressive ideas, and I adore how matter-of-factly A hundred and fifty years later, a young archivist, Elodie Winslow, is drawn to the mystery. I thought this was lovely. 05 Jackaby ​ Jackaby is the first in a young adult supernatural mystery series Ji Lin is a young girl who would have dreamed of becoming a doctor if society would allow it, but she's There's magical realism at the heart of this book, and Choo also examines colonialism, superstition, and young

  • Six of My Favorite Lighter Fiction Reads from the Past Year

    Script. 05 Every Summer After by Carley Fortune Carley Fortune offers a satisfying story of coming home, young determination to keep her heart closed might be shaken--along with everything else around which she's built her young adult life. Hannah Brooks looks like the young woman next door--but she's actually a highly skilled Executive Protection

  • Six Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading

    In Ann Liang's young adult rom-com This Time It's Real, when seventeen-year-old Eliza's class essay about young love goes viral, it leads to the offer of a competitive internship and soaring popularity at her

  • Six More Backlist Favorites to Check Out

    That is, until a young girl appears, battered and bruised, and is resistant to help but clearly in need On certain days she finds her own way to the community center where she and other young adults with challenges

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