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For years, ever since right before her parents’ death, Emerson has seen ghosts. She can interact with them, but no one else sees them and they pop if she touches them. Desperate to help, her much-older brother/guardian Thomas sends her to one last specialist: the young, mysterious, and (surprise) devastatingly … Continue reading
Sick of taking a backseat to the endless rivalry between her school’s soccer and football teams, Lissa, the quarterback’s girlfriend, convinces other athletes’ girlfriends to join her in a sex strike. (Whew! I love a book with a one-sentence premise.) Lissa’s a little bossy and overly organized (she even works … Continue reading
Picture books aren’t my usual scene, but urban community totally is. So I loved this book trailer for a new picture book about the 2003 blackout in New York (via Fuse #8):
I’m home! And bailing on my 10-year college reunion because I now have a weird flu or something. (I blame the Javits Center; it’s like a Vegas casino without the neon and free drinks.) So I’m fairly woozy and exhausted, as I’m sure this recap will reflect. Most of all, … Continue reading
Maybe Genius is really hitting it out of the park today (and by “today” I mean “the day I picked to catch up on my last month of feeds”). Here’s a handy list of dystopian tropes. I’m thinking about using it to create Dystopian Bingo. Would you play with me? … Continue reading
I recently had to think about this ubiquitous question from a different angle when asked to read a colleague’s manuscript to see if it could work for a YA market. Why is it or is it not a YA novel now? What changes could she make to turn it into … Continue reading
Akata is a derogatory Nigerian word for an African-American — like Sunny, who moved from New York to Nigeria with her Nigerian parents a few years ago, when she was nine. One day she sees a frightening image of the future in a candle, and discovers that she is a … Continue reading
Paolo Bacigalupi (Ship Breaker) is interviewed in School Library Journal this month: “Master of Disaster”. He talks about his take on the now-trendy post-apocalyptic genre. Reading the interview I had the unsettling feeling that he stole the kind of thoughts that are churning around in my brain all the time … Continue reading
Everybody admire my business cards: Ooooh… BEA/Book Blogger Con, here I come!
After her best friend Julia’s accidental death, Cass is at loose ends. She hangs out on the edges of the Julia’s theater crowd but feels like she doesn’t belong. Cass only reluctantly agrees to participate when they throw themselves into producing Julia’s final effort, a half-finished musical called Totally Sweet … Continue reading
