Forum: Young Adult Books

Here is a thread where we might discuss details about the Gossip Girl books. I still feel a bit silly for reading them to begin with, but here goes a thread anyhow! I got kind of tired of reading them after book 4, but maybe some discussion will inspire me to read the rest. I think after...

I've been trying to find some historical fiction books for young adults. My brother (who's 15) is very interested in The World War II and I'd love to find some good fiction about it, since I don't want to give him a non-fiction book, but I've never found one. The only one that comes to my mind...

From Rampant: "Forget everything you ever knew about unicorns . . . Real unicorns are venomous, man-eating monsters with huge fangs and razor-sharp horns. Fortunately, they've been extinct for a hundred and fifty years. Or not. Astrid had always scoffed at her eccentric mother's...

Here is an interesting bit of news, in a kind-of long article, about planned reprints of the Babysitters Club series books. It caught my eye because I did read those books from time to time as a kid. They weren't my favorites, but I did enjoy them every once in a while (I especially liked the...

Identical Ellen Hopkins August 2008 ...

A short, easily read, straightforward little book based on an actual incident in a high school in California, this book relates the story of a history teacher who creates an experiment to illustrate how something like the Nazi regime in Germany can exist among basically good people. A quick...

i am not sure we have a thread like this, but if we do, please merge this thread with it. anyway, i think my tremendous love towards detective stories began with these book series - the Hardy Brothers, Nancy Drew and the most wonderful of all - Alfred Hitchcock and Three Investigators. before...

I am working on a book report for a summer project, and I am kind of curious as to how to find a theme of a book (we are supposed to find a fiction book with the theme "Honor and Courage in Life in the Face of Injustice") and I cannot seem to find a way to extract that, let alone find one that...

this is entirely about eragon, eldest and the third book when it comes out, i can not wait for paolini to finish it. comments on the movie are welcome as well, possibly, why did fox make it so completely far from the book. i think that these books are absolutely amazing books for young adult...

Here is a much needed thread for Jay Asher's debut novel, Thirteen Reasons Why. There will be a ton of spoilers in this thread so Keep Out if you haven't read the book yet! The book is much too good to ruin the experience with spoilers. :D Thoughts to come... :D

The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing: Traitor to the Nation by M. T. Anderson. YA (young adult) book, but really jumps the limits. National Book Award winner. Really interesting book, but I wouldn't recommend it for 14 yr olds. There are graphic descriptions (ie tar and feathering) which...

Lawrence Yep comes to mind, also this book I just finished: Ties That Bind, Ties That Break by Lensey Namioka. Since I have a beautiful granddaughter adopted from China, I keep my eye out for books she might enjoy about her heritage. Ties That Bind, Ties That Break follows young Ailin, a...

The Great Good Thing by Roderick Townley I loved the plot maneuvers in this book! Told as a book within a book, but also within dreams, within the subconscious, this book plays with fairy tales, psychology and life's progression in what I found to be a very satisfying story for young adults who...

"Animorphs is an English language science fiction series of young adult books written by K. A. Applegate and published by Scholastic. Five humans, one of whom eventually becomes a hawk, and one alien obtain the ability to morph into any animal they touch; they name themselves "Animorphs", a...

Best of 2008: Independent Reader ...

for some bizarre reason, _object and I have suddenly decided that trying to remember on the spot the plots of assigned books from middle school is a really fun game. It is incredibly funny to try to retell the plot of a book you seem to remember quite clearly, and then once you start narrating what...