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Stephenie Meyer’s “Midnight Sun” Retells “Twilight” from Edward’s Perspective

The worlds of fiction and film were bitten by the tale of a lonely, awkward teenager named Isabella Swan who fell in love with the handsome vampire Edward Cullen. Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight saga was a dark, paranormal twist on the Romeo and Juliet trope of star-crossed lovers. While it was…

Jodé MillmanAugust 4, 2020

Fiction Young Adult

Coriolanus Snow Lands on Top in “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes”

In Suzanne Collins’s blockbuster trilogy, “The Hunger Games,” Panem President Coriolanus Snow is presented as a calculating, ruthless dictator bent on destroying the Mockingjay heroine, Katniss Everdeen. In Collin’s new novel, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (Scholastic), we are introduced to an angst-ridden teenage Snow, forty years before the…

Jodé MillmanJune 9, 2020

Young Adult

“The Legacy Series” Chronicles the Inner and Online World of Terminally Ill Teen

Before Zoom, WhatsApp and Facebook, at the very dawn of the World Wide Web was a new way of meeting and communicating with total strangers across the planet, all from your own home — online message boards. As any of us who are old enough to remember the heyday of…

BookTribMay 18, 2020

Fiction Young Adult

Being Human is Difficult, Especially Amid the Chaotic Mess of Teenage Life in “This Boy”

“Being human is hard work, isn’t it?” One could argue that to be true for any person of any age group at any station in life. One also could argue it is the hardest, most uncomfortable, most complicated for teenagers experiencing the transitional growing pains from child to adult. That’s…

BookTribApril 15, 2020

Young Adult

Shy Bookworm Must Find Her Voice in “What I Like About You”

Kels Roth is a star. Her YA book review blog, "One True Pastry" — OTP for short — is gaining followers like crazy. She’s practically guaranteed a spot at BookCon this year. She’s pretty much destined for NYU. There's just only problem — Kels Roth is all a lie. Meet…

Cameron KimballApril 9, 2020

Young Adult

“Walking Among Birds” Offers an Epic Vantage Point of Boarding School Secrets

So, there’s something about birds in the aptly named Walking Among Birds (Magdalen College Press), one of the neatest, niftiest and most intriguing dramas I’ve read this year, from a new young voice and literary talent Matthew Hickson. Right before the book’s pivotal sequence, Hickson writes, “The lights went out…

Jim AlkonMarch 18, 2020

Young Adult

Teens Trade Secrets in “What the Other Three Don’t Know”

Is there any time in life that is more emotionally wrought than the teenage years? This roller coaster period, often difficult to navigate, is a time when teens feel out of sync; when their Inner and outer worlds collide. Spencer Hyde’s YA novel, What the Other Three Don’t Know (Shadow…

Joanne ShulmanMarch 6, 2020

BooksToScreen Young Adult

Defanged, “The Call of the Wild” Still Grips

When Jack London wrote The Call of the Wild, serialized in 1903 in The Saturday Evening Post, it made adventure story history. The short novel became an international sensation, and it’s never been out of print. It’s the story of a dog, and the man who loved him. London spent…

Joanna PoncavageFebruary 28, 2020

Fiction Young Adult

Past Lives, Second Chances Intersect in “Life on Repeat”

Author Amy Larson Marble explores these questions and more in a haunting YA novel titled Life on Repeat, the first book in a series known as the Sarah Sagas, published by Hildebrand Books. As the story opens, we are introduced to 14-year-old Sarah McKenzie, a ninth grade student in Mount…

Susan BaileyFebruary 20, 2020

Fiction Young Adult

A Vietnamese Immigration Story in “Butterfly Yellow”

When Hằng was 12, her 5-year-old brother Linh was taken away as part of Operation Baby Lift and sent to the United States at the end of the Vietnam War. She and her grandmother spent the next six years worried about his safety, wondering about his life and planning for…

Jennifer BlankfeinDecember 31, 2019

Young Adult

“The Virus of Beauty” and the Teenager Caught in a Magical War

We got real witches in C.B. Lyall’s debut fantasy YA novel, not poor souls drowned in Salem or sexy Halloween harpies, sorceresses, or enchantresses casting spells, but real broom-flying, warts-on-their-noses witches who can light fires with a wiggle of their fingers. Lyall has created a world filled with magic and…

Sherri DaleyOctober 17, 2019

Fiction Young Adult

“Merged” is a Trippy YA Sci-Fi Adventure That Asks Big Questions

The greatest minds of a generation dream of imparting their wisdom and making a mark for decades to come. The young, who inherit all that came before them, dream of creating something new that will stand alongside the works that came before. What if both generations could share a consciousness…

BookTribOctober 16, 2019

Fiction Young Adult

In “The Night Weaver,” Children Disappear and Folklore Comes to Life

In Monique Snyman's latest work, The Night Weaver (Vesuvian Books), children in a small town keep disappearing. That’s an interesting storyline in its own right. It’s quite another when nobody, including the town sheriff, seems to care. Snyman concocts a unique blend of horror, fantasy and adolescent angst, in which…

Missi GwartneyOctober 9, 2019

Thrillers Young Adult

Saving a Silent Girl in “Speak No Evil”

Melody Fisher is just sixteen years old, but she’s already experienced enough heartbreak to last a lifetime. From the time of her mother’s death and her father’s disappearance when she was only nine years old, Melody has bounced between various foster placements and new schools, often finding each one worse…

Paige VigliaroloSeptember 17, 2019

BooksToScreen Miscellany Pop Culture Young Adult

A Few Notes on Hulu’s “Looking for Alaska”

This past Saturday I had the pleasure of attending Hulu’s panel on their upcoming adaptation of Looking for Alaska (Penguin Books) by John Green. I read Looking for Alaska years ago, probably in eighth or ninth grade, and loved how raw and real it was. Throughout his career, John Green’s…

Jeff DaughertyJune 4, 2019

Thrillers Young Adult

Cover Revealed for YA Mystery “Speak No Evil”

Says author Liana Gardner, “I always felt my characters come to me with their stories to tell, and I am the mere journalist whose job is to breathe life into them on the page. That could not be any truer than in the case of Speak No Evil" (Vesuvian Books/…

BookTribMay 17, 2019

Stephenie Meyer’s “Midnight Sun” Retells “Twilight” from Edward’s Perspective

Coriolanus Snow Lands on Top in “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes”

“The Legacy Series” Chronicles the Inner and Online World of Terminally Ill Teen

Being Human is Difficult, Especially Amid the Chaotic Mess of Teenage Life in “This Boy”

Shy Bookworm Must Find Her Voice in “What I Like About You”

“Walking Among Birds” Offers an Epic Vantage Point of Boarding School Secrets

Teens Trade Secrets in “What the Other Three Don’t Know”

Defanged, “The Call of the Wild” Still Grips

Past Lives, Second Chances Intersect in “Life on Repeat”

A Vietnamese Immigration Story in “Butterfly Yellow”

“The Virus of Beauty” and the Teenager Caught in a Magical War

“Merged” is a Trippy YA Sci-Fi Adventure That Asks Big Questions

In “The Night Weaver,” Children Disappear and Folklore Comes to Life

Saving a Silent Girl in “Speak No Evil”

A Few Notes on Hulu’s “Looking for Alaska”

Cover Revealed for YA Mystery “Speak No Evil”

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