Parenthetical

You guys: Sweet Valley High: The Musical. For reals. Written by Francine Pascal herself, with a guy from Bon Jovi. Erin of Forever Young Adult acquired a demo CD and hooks us up with surprisingly catchy songs to download (and a script she made up). One of them appears to be an Elizabeth-Todd duet in [...]

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After the discussion of trilogies (and Martini-Corona’s eternal John Christopher obsession), I decided this project wouldn’t be complete without a Tripod book. The Tripod trilogy (…heh) might have been the first major YA science fiction trilogy, and is certainly a classic. If you somehow missed these books, the premise is that aliens invade, in giant [...]

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In the immortal words of Jeremy Piven in Grosse Pointe Blank: “Ten years! Ten years! Ten! Years!” Yes, believe it or not, I have owned this domain for an entire decade. It’s been home to everything from passive-aggressive collegiate angst to stories of my travel adventures to this YA lit blog. I had big plans [...]

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My friend, a public librarian, found this in her library’s attic: Behold, fabulously 80s library poster! Comment here

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This morning I checked out a digital camera to a middle schooler. The only one we had left was one of the old ones that stores the pictures on a floppy disk. I explained this to my student. Her friend overheard and asked, “What’s a floppy?” The first student’s answer? “It’s like a USB drive, [...]

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Hey, everybody, it’s post-apocalyptic YA from the ’80s! Home, sweet home. It even has a watercolory cover and a fresh-faced, all-American heroine named “Janie Johnson”! This book was brought to my attention recently [and by "recently," I mean about six months ago, when I actually read it -- Ed.] by an old friend, who presented [...]

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…on the internet. (I mean, how else would you do it?) Last week I bought a mini-VGA to video adapter and a headphone jack to audio cable adapter, and now all of the beautiful streaming video of the internet is available for viewing on my television. One $25 purchase is a hell of a lot [...]

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