Archive for the ‘Young Adult’ Category
Terry Pratchett – Nation
Don’t you love Terry Pratchett books? I do, despite never having read any in my teenage years, and Nation, a non-Discworld story, is no exception. Set in an alternate universe (or a parallel universe, if you like), this is the story of a young boy (Mau) whose homecoming has been ruined by a massive tidal wave, […]
Filed under: ALA Best Books For Young Adults, Books 2010, Review, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Terry Pratchett, Young Adult | 14 Comments
Tags: Terry Pratchett
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is the fifth book in the popular Harry Potter series. I’ve read the book thrice: when it first came out, before the release of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Price, and of course, prior to the final book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, hitting the […]
Filed under: ALA Best Books For Young Adults, Audio Books, Books 2010, Carnegie Medal Nominee, J.K. Rowling, Review, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Stephen Fry, Young Adult | 16 Comments
Tags: Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling, Stephen Fry
Terry Pratchett – Equal Rites
Terry Pratchett’s Equal Rites is the third book of the Discworld series, and, it’s the first Discworld book that I have read. Equal Rites explores the world where women cannot be wizards, and men cannot be witches. However, when a dying wizard visits a blacksmith, things in the wizarding world are about to change. The […]
Filed under: Books 2010, Review, Sci-Fi Challenge, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Terry Pratchett, Young Adult | 15 Comments
Tags: Discworld, Terry Pratchett
Sophie McKenzie – Girl, Missing
Girl, Missing is a story about Lauren, a fourteen year old, who lives in London with her parents. She knows she is adopted, and when she is forced to deliberate on “Who am I?” as part of her school homework, her curiosity in her past increases threefold. Logging on to a website, Missing-Children.com, she finds […]
Filed under: Books 2009, Carnegie Medal Nominee, Review, Richard & Judy Book Group, Sophie McKenzie, Young Adult | 8 Comments
Tags: Adoption, Sophie McKenzie
Stephanie Meyer – Twilight
If you love the Twilight books, I suggest you don’t continue reading this review, despite the fact that it’s going to be a really short one. Nope – I didn’t enjoy the book, and worse, I didn’t see any point to it. I struggled to page 279, and then, I just gave up. On one […]
Filed under: ALA Best Books For Young Adults, Books 2009, Garden State Book Award, Review, Stephanie Meyer, Young Adult | 22 Comments
Tags: Stephanie Meyer, Twilight, Vampires
This incredibly poignant well written story tackles various important and sensitive topics, some of which are still valid today, despite the book being set around the time of the second World War. Set in the English countryside, Michelle Magorian tells the story of Willie, a timid little specimen, who is an evacuee from London, and […]
Filed under: ALA Best Books For Young Adults, BBC's Big Read {Best Loved Novel}, Books 2009, Guardian Children's Fiction Award, Historical Fiction, Michelle Magorian, Review, Waterstones The Nation's Favourite Children's Books, Young Adult | 16 Comments
Tags: Child Abuse, Michelle Magorian, World War II
This book was recommended to me by a younger cousin, and I figured, it’ll be a fun young adult book, which would be a pleasant distraction from most of the reading I’ve done this year. Also, I was planning on reading a young-adult book for the Take A Chance Challenge #9. Figured, by the challenge’s […]
Filed under: ALA Best Books For Young Adults, Ann Brashares, Books 2009, Garden State Book Award, Review, Take A Chance Challenge, Young Adult | 6 Comments
Tags: Ann Brashares, Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Background: I saw the penultimate Harry Potter movie on Wednesday, and was quite astounded that I did not recall most of the book, which I had read in summer 2005. It slowly came back to me, as the movie progressed, but I couldn’t help feeling I was missing a fair bit. So, I dug out […]
Filed under: Books 2009, British Book Awards Book Of The Year, Carnegie Medal Nominee, J.K. Rowling, Review, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Take A Chance Challenge, Young Adult | 8 Comments
Tags: Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling, Movie Adaptation
