Parenthetical

In 1942 India, Vidya is primarily concerned with convincing her parents not to marry her off until she can go to college. Those hopes die when her father is seriously injured at an independence march and Vidya, her parents, and her brother move to Madras to live with her father’s far more conservative extended family. [...]

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This is the funniest thing I have seen in days: Hogwarts Finally Hooks Up the Internet

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Nominations for the Cybils open at midnight tonight — or what you might call “October 1.” One nomination per person, per category. But that’s a lot of categories! Bring us your favorite children’s & YA, fiction & non-fiction & poetry, genre and… can something really have no genre? Must have been published in the last [...]

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I’ve been keeping a lid on it, but I can finally announce that I’m back for my 3rd year of Cybils goodness, this time as a Round II judge for the Teen/YA Science Fiction & Fantasy panel! *does a little dance of joy* Confused? The Cybils are the Children’s and Young Adult Bloggers’ Literary Awards. [...]

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Tu Books, the new publisher I’ve been following that plans to focus on multicultural children’s and YA genre fiction, has bought: a “YA paranormal thriller” by Joseph Bruchac, author of Code Talker, whose description involves a “black-ops father” and an “abandoned, monster-guarded mansion.” “Galaxy Games by Greg Fishbone, a MG science fiction trilogy about an [...]

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This has nothing to do with YA, but it’s hilarious, so I link to Pink Me’s post about picture books with bad metaphors. (Some of them have cows. See what I did with the title there? Yeah, that’s all the clever you’re getting today.)

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Trella is a scrub, a denizen of the cramped, joyless lower levels whose job is to keep Inside clean for the wealthy Uppers. When her friend Cog introduces her to a guy who claims to know the location of the legendary Gateway to Outside, she gets involved despite herself and ends up starting a rebellion. [...]

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When Lucy was small, her mother went crazy and disappeared, leaving her in the care of her beloved foster parents. She doesn’t believe it, of course, when she finds pages from her mother’s diary claiming that the family has been under an Elfin Knight’s curse for centuries — each woman is doomed to get pregnant [...]

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When Alton’s mother pushes him to play bridge with his blind, crotchety uncle in the hopes of scoring a big inheritance, he’s irritated — who wants to play a boring, mystifying game with old people? — but he goes along with it. Of course, he ends up loving bridge, and his uncle as well. The [...]

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