YA fiction | YA fiction
Dec.07.2009
COMPROMISED, Heidi Ayarbe. From the cover:
With a con-man dad and a long-gone mom, the only thing that makes sense to Maya is science. In fact, every time her dad's cons go wrong, she has a scientific way to fix it to keep them both safe and together. Only this time Maya's scientific method doesn't...
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Nov.30.2009
At the end of my last blog, I mentioned that I'd soon be coming out with a new video excerpt for my YA novel The Year of my Miraculous Reappearance. Unlike the terrific new video for Love in the Present Tense, this is one of mine, with my voice (as always) over a video created by me.
I would have...
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Nov.02.2009
KING OF THE SCREWUPS, K.L. Going.
From the flap copy:
Liam Geller is Mr. Popularity. Everybody loves him. He excels at sports; he knows exactly what clothes to wear; he always ends up with the most beautiful girls in school. But he's got an uncanny ability to screw up in the very ways that tick...
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Oct.05.2009
Lauren Bjorkman didn't plan to write a novel about LGBT teens. My Invented Life (Henry Holt, 2009), her newly-published debut for young adults, just kind of happened that way.
It all started with a high school reunion.
"A few months before, someone started a pre-reunion forum online,"...
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Sep.11.2009
Yesterday, in my Fiction II class, as the students introduced themselves I asked them to speak about what they'd been reading over the summer. One student impressively admitted to reading both Underworld and Infinite Jest. Another, though, shyly said she was reading YA novels.
"I suspect...
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Aug.24.2009
Recently, I once again shared airspace with the lively and fun Ed Champion of the Bat Segundo show, who, amidst much chatter about redheadedness, was one of the many men who have challenged, in RANK FINGER-POINTING outrage, my alleged needless gender focus, to the tune of half a show. (Over coffee...
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Jul.06.2009
RIGHT BEHIND YOU, Gail Giles. Nine-year-old Kip McFarland doesn't mean to kill seven-year-old Bobby Clarke. Kip's just annoyed that Bobby has a new baseball glove while he doesn't, and that, as Bobby tauntingly reminds him, Bobby has a mother while Kip's is dead. What Kip intends is to destroy the...
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