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While Defy is Sara Larson's YA debut, readers will likely recognize Robin Benway from Audrey, Wait! and Michele Jaffe from her 'Bad Kitty' series. Our new crop of reviewers from Johnson County (KS) Library's Young Adult Advisory Councils (YAAC) are starting the year off with three reviews that don't hold back on strong opinion!
Each year SLJTeen rotates the responsibility for reviews by teens to one of the YA Galley Groups selected by the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA). In 2014, the Young Adult Advisory Councils (YAAC) from Johnson County Library, Shawnee Mission, Kansas, will be taking over teen reviews.
Gr 2–5—With beautiful full-color photos and illustrations, clever visual representations of concepts like the evolution of life on earth, and balanced use of white space, this eye-pleasing atlas will give young animal lovers plenty to marvel over...
Gr 5 Up—Originally published as a daily newspaper strip, albeit in small circulation, this collection introduces the daily expostulations and exasperations of preschooler Barnaby Baxter and his rotund, inappropriate fairy godfather...
Gr 6–8—Darwin's original conclusions on natural selection/evolution were controversial from the start, with even Darwin initially finding his research at odds with the religious convictions of his youth...
Gr 7 Up—In Johnson's sequel (2013) to The Name of the Star (2011, both Putnam), Rory is still recovering from an attack by the murderous Ripper and trying to reconnect with her friends and school life...