by Carrie Jones
Since her father (her stepfather really, but he raised her since she was a baby) died in front of her eyes, Zara has been practically dead inside. Concerned for her daughter’s emotional state, Zara’s mother sends Zara to live with her grandmother in middle-of-nowhere Maine hoping the change of scenery will help Zara [...]
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The Thirteenth Tale
by Diane Setterfield
Vida Winter is a storyteller in every sense of the word. Renowned for her fictitious life stories as she is for her novels, Ms. Winter has become the puzzle every journalist hopes to piece together. No one knows where Ms. Winter came from, there are no records to be found to give any [...]
My Fair Godmother
by Jeanette Rallison
After Savannah’s boyfriend dumps her for her older sister, Savannah is sent a fair godmother (not fairy because her godmother is not good enough to be a full-fledged fairy godmother, just a fair one) who says she will grant Savannah three wishes. Savannah’s godmother, Chrissy, proceeds to mess up everything Savannah wishes for [...]
Wondrous Strange
by Lesley Livingston
Seventeen-year-old Kelly Winslow is trying to make it big as an actress in NYC. She has landed a role in an off-off-off-waaaayyy off Broadway production of Midsummer Night’s Dream as the understudy to the role of Queen Titania. Not long before the play is to open, the lead injures herself and Kelly is [...]
2009 Top Ten BBYA
This is a bit late, but I still wanted to post it. Every year YALSA releases its Top Ten Best Books for Young Adults from that year. Here is the list for 2009:
It’s Complicated: The American Teenager by Robin Bowman
Waiting for Normal by Leslie Conner
Mexican WhiteBoy by Matt de la Pena
Bog Child by Siobhan [...]
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And the Winner is…
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart for the YA Fiction Category!
Check out all of the winners here. There are some not surprising winners — The Graveyard Book and The Hunger Games for the Middle Grade and YA Fantasy categories respectively — and some titles I can’t wait to read, like the London [...]
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