So I just read “Sinner” (which comes out tomorrow) for both work (review to come) and pleasure, so I figured I would dedicate today’s edition of Monday Quotes to previous Maggie Stiefvater books. I, for one, love her obsession with cars, so I could’ve made the theme even narrower, but it’s just a quote from…
Earth Day Celebration: YA Books That Celebrate Nature
In honor of Earth Day, I’m sharing some YA books that will make you feel connected to nature, the environment, and the Great Outdoors. These reads will make you want to run through a meadow, learn about wildlife, dive in sky-blue oceans, fall in love with a werewolf — oops, that last one isn’t very…
Editor’s Pick: The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater
The Raven Boys by Maggie StiefvaterPublisher: Scholastic | 416 pages | Buy it “There are only two reasons a non-seer would see a spirit on St. Mark’s Eve,” Neeve said. “Either you’re his true love … or you killed him.” It is freezing in the churchyard, even before the dead arrive. Every year, Blue Sargent…
BEA Buzz: Five YA Books I Can’t Wait to Read
If we’ve been strangely silent this month, it’s for a very good reason: Teen Lit Rocks hit up the Book Expo of America for four days, and we were lucky enough to score about four boxes full of ARCs, most of them Young Adult but also some awesome sounding Middle Grade books and a whole…
Literary Crush: Sean Kendrick from ‘The Scorpio Races’ by Maggie Stiefvater
We’ve been swooning in private apparently (if Twitter, Facebook, and text messaging can be considered “private”), because it has been ages since we shared a Literary Crush, and the fictional boyfriend list is getting embarrassingly long. I was all set to pay tribute to Four from “Divergent” and “Insurgent,” but after meeting Maggie Stiefvater at…
Awards Day Love and Books Challenge
It’s Book Awards Day! Since we’re a YA site, we’d like to congratulate all of the winners of the 2012 ALA Youth Media Awards but especially to the 2012 Michael L. Printz Award Winner: “Where Things Come Back” by John Corey Whaley and Honor Books: “Why We Broke Up” by Daniel Handler and Maira Kalman…