Devil’s Wake, the first in a new series by husband and wife writing team Steven Barnes and Tananarive Due, adds welcome diversity to the crowded zombie field.
Tananarive Due is author of the acclaimed African Immortals series, which can also be recommended to young adults. It includes My Soul to Keep, The Living Blood, Blood Colony, and My Soul to Take.
Zombie fans [...]
Devil’s Wake
By on August 9, 2012
The Boy is Father to the Man
By on August 8, 2012
from graphic novel guest blogger, Francisca Goldsmith:
Becoming a parent, as many teens know or will know too soon, can send one on an unexpected journey to one’s own childhood expectations of and disappointments in his own parent. Jeff Lemire, who has been lauded for his ability to expose the real humanity that underlies characters and [...]
Alif the Unseen
By on August 7, 2012
G. Willow Wilson is the author of an acclaimed memoir, The Butterfly Mosque: A Young American Woman’s Journey to Love and Islam (Grove, 2010). She has also published graphic novels with illustrator M.K. Perker, including Cairo (2008) and the Air series (2009-2011).
Alif the Unseen, in her own words, “represents the moment at which I said “screw it” [...]
Zombie
By on August 2, 2012
The colorful, unusual cover of J.R. Angelella’s first novel is bound to inspire curiosity in teens, don’t you think? It’s hard to tell just what it might contain. The answer — a different sort of coming-of-age story which, despite its title, harbors no zombies. Instead, a zombie movie-obsessed teen boy.
The review on Paste is a particularly [...]
Display’s the Thing
By on August 1, 2012
from graphic novel guest blogger, Francisca Goldsmith:
Continuing in a summer reading—and summer reading promotion—vein, Dan Zettwoch’s first graphic novel provides a stunning array of possibilities: a summer-visit-to-the-country marbled with social and political commentary and served up with intriguingly detailed but accessible schematics of cell tower construction, live bait farming and lifestyles doomed by commercial zealots [...]
The Violinist’s Thumb
By on July 31, 2012
In 2010 Sam Kean debuted with The Disappearing Spoon: and other true tales of madness, love, and the history of the world from the periodic table of elements. He began with chemistry. In The Violinist’s Thumb he takes on DNA.
His talent lies in communicating his own passion for science and making science fun — and human. [...]
Charlotte Markham and the House of Darkling
By on July 30, 2012
Michael Boccacino makes his debut with this terrific, spooky Victorian gothic novel.
Give it a try — the first three chapters are available on the Harper website.
BOCCACINO, Michael. Charlotte Markham and the House of Darkling. 320p. Morrow. 2012. pap. $14.99. ISBN 978-0-06-212261-2. LC number unavailable.
Adult/High School–Charlotte Markham has seen the Black Man all her life: [...]
Days of Splendor, Days of Sorrow
By on July 26, 2012
Juliet Grey is back with the second in her trilogy based on the life of Marie Antoinette. Becoming Marie Antoinette began Marie Antoinette’s story at age 10. Days of Splendor picks up when she begins her reign, and covers the next 15 years of her life, ending in 1789, after the storming of the Bastille. The first 300 [...]
Nurse Nurse
By on July 25, 2012
from graphic novel guest blogger, Francisca Goldsmith:
As July rolls to its close, there is nothing more inviting in the way of books than one that can be read with no strings attached. Nurse Nurse fills that bill perfectly. It fits into even the smallest bag–or even a big pocket–so it can travel anywhere. Its inky [...]
Full Body Burden
By on July 24, 2012
“Full Body Burden” refers to the amount of radioactivity which can be safely tolerated by a human body through its lifetime. Kristen Iversen’s memoir combines life within a dysfunctional family and the investigation of a nuclear weapons program cover-up that took place in her own backyard.
Teens will be outraged by the government’s willingness to hide the [...]
Kingdom of Strangers
By on July 23, 2012
And we’re back from hiatus feeling refreshed and energized. I hope everyone is enjoying a wonderful summer!
Today I am thrilled to share a review of the third book in one of my personal favorite mystery series, which began with the 2009 Alex Award-winning Finding Nouf.
Author Zoe Ferraris followed Finding Nouf with City of Veils, which we [...]
Tell the Wolves I’m Home
By on July 4, 2012
The Key
By on July 3, 2012
Simon Toyne is back with the second in the trilogy that began with last year’s widely-praised Sanctus. The Key is a well-written, intriguing, action-packed conspiracy thriller, and a great recommendation for kids who like a Da Vinci Code kind of book.
The book trailer is OK, but this (the author’s visit to The British Museum in search [...]
The Key
By on July 3, 2012
Simon Toyne is back with the second in the trilogy that began with last year’s widely-praised Sanctus. The Key is a well-written, intriguing, action-packed conspiracy thriller, and a great recommendation for kids who like a Da Vinci Code kind of book.
The book trailer is OK, but this (the author’s visit to The British Museum in search [...]
Runaway Girl
By on July 2, 2012
Watching her book trailer, it’s easy to see why Carissa Phelps is a successful motivational speaker and youth advocate. She has an incredible story and a caring, charismatic determination to help others.
Phelps also created a documentary short about her life, Carissa (2008), which was produced by Davis Guggenheim, director of An Inconvenient Truth.
PHELPS, Carissa & [...]
The 2012 Alex Awards Program
By on June 30, 2012
Many thanks to reviewer Priscille Dando for sharing her experience attending the Alex Awards program last weekend at ALA in Anaheim:
Fans of AB4T probably already know all about the Alex Awards, the YALSA award “given to ten books written for adults that have special appeal to young adults, ages 12 through 18.” A highlight of [...]
The 2012 Alex Awards Program
By on June 30, 2012
Many thanks to reviewer Priscille Dando for sharing her experience attending the Alex Awards program last weekend at ALA in Anaheim:
Fans of AB4T probably already know all about the Alex Awards, the YALSA award “given to ten books written for adults that have special appeal to young adults, ages 12 through 18.” A highlight of [...]
Mud, Sweat and Tears
By on June 29, 2012
Although far from being his first book, this is the first full autobiography by Bear Grylls, star of Man vs. Wild on the Discovery Channel. After 7 seasons, the show closed this spring, but Grylls’ fans are many.
In 1998, at 23 years old, Bear Grylls became the youngest British climber to successfully climb Everest. This was [...]
Mud, Sweat and Tears
By on June 29, 2012
Although far from being his first book, this is the first full autobiography by Bear Grylls, star of Man vs. Wild on the Discovery Channel. After 7 seasons, the show closed this spring, but Grylls’ fans are many.
In 1998, at 23 years old, Bear Grylls became the youngest British climber to successfully climb Everest. This was [...]
The Virgin Cure
By on June 28, 2012
Ami McKay discovered the idea for her second historical novel (following The Birth House) while researching her own family. Her great-grandmother was a doctor on Manhattan’s Lower East Side in the late 19th century, caring for the homeless children living in the alleys and tenements of the area. McKay describes her research in an Author’s [...]
