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YA Diversity Book Club: 5 Things to Know About Rainbow Rowell

November 23, 2015 by Sandie 1 Comment

YA Diversity Book Club: 5 Things to Know About Rainbow Rowell

Welcome to the October edition of the YA Diversity Book Club, a monthly feature we run in partnership with Lucy at The Reading Date and Kristan at We Heart YA. For November we read CARRY ON by Rainbow Rowell. This was super exciting for us, because we’re all big Rainbow fans and were excited to see what she had… 

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Filed Under: Authors, Diversity Book Club, Features, Top Features Tagged With: authors we love, diversity book club, Rainbow Rowell

Answering Readers’ Questions

March 12, 2015 by Sandie 1 Comment

Answering Readers’ Questions

Sometimes we get interesting emails or comments here at Teen Lit Rocks — mostly asking us questions about page-to-screen YA adaptations, so we’ve decided to answer a few readers’ questions. 1. Are you really a movie critic? Yes. And I’m also a professional book reviewer and entertainment writer. That’s why I’m kind of lazy about… 

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Filed Under: Commentary, Features, Top Features Tagged With: commentary, eleanor & park, gayle forman, If I Stay, Rainbow Rowell

Favorite Couple: Eleanor and Park

August 7, 2014 by Diana 2 Comments

Favorite Couple: Eleanor and Park

It’s absolutely no surprise that we are huge fans of Rainbow Rowell. Between the two of us, we’ve read all of her books. In fact, without discussing it, we both read  and finished “Landline” within days of each other last week. We will definitely be discussing that book in future posts, but this post is… 

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Filed Under: Amazing Couples, Favorites, Top Features Tagged With: amazing couples, eleanor & park, Eleanor and Park, favorite couples, Rainbow Rowell, romance, YA couples

Monday Quotes: Authors We Loved Before They Got “Airplay”

July 7, 2014 by Diana Leave a Comment

Monday Quotes: Authors We Loved Before They Got “Airplay”

I can remember the excitement back in high school and college when I would discover a new band I really liked, and no one else seemed to know about them. I would play the part of fan evangelist and try to convince my friends to listen to my discovery’s album. Then when my beloved band’s… 

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Filed Under: Features, Quotes, Top Features Tagged With: Guadalupe Garcia McCall, John Corey Whaley, Kristin Cashore, monday quotes, Rainbow Rowell, Ruta Sepetys, veronica roth

ALA Youth Media Awards 2014: Let’s Hear It for the Winners

January 29, 2014 by Sandie Leave a Comment

ALA Youth Media Awards 2014: Let’s Hear It for the Winners

Monday was Book Awards Day! We’d like to congratulate all of the winners of the 2014 ALA Youth Media Awards but especially to the YALSA section of the honorees, particularly the Michael L. Printz Award Winner: “Midwinterblood” by Marcus Sedgwick (Macmillan). I was at the gym when the awards were announced, so I had to call… 

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Top Ten Highlights of YALLFest

November 15, 2013 by Diana 5 Comments

Top Ten Highlights of YALLFest

Last weekend, we once again attended YALLFest in Charleston, SC. My 18-year-old daughter and I drove up from Florida and Sandie drove down from Maryland, and we met up in Charleston within minutes of one another.  After the initial excitement of our sisterly reunion, we did what any person should do in Charleston — eat!… 

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Filed Under: Features, Top Features Tagged With: Libba Bray, Rainbow Rowell, ya books, YALLFest

Monday Quotes: Male Protagonists in YA

October 28, 2013 by Sandie 6 Comments

Monday Quotes: Male Protagonists in YA

Since most young adult authors seem to be women, it’s only natural that the majority of main characters in YA is also female. Of course I’m not necessarily taking into consideration the many multiple-POV stories (even most of those start with the female character and in others), but in terms of my bookshelves, it’s definitely… 

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Filed Under: Features, Quotes, Top Features Tagged With: gayle forman, john green, lish mcbride, melina marchetta, Quotes, Rainbow Rowell, tim tharp

Quotes from Our Favorite Parents in YA

October 14, 2013 by Diana 4 Comments

Quotes from Our Favorite Parents in YA

 A couple of weeks ago we wrote a Top Ten Tuesday about our major book turn offs. One of the things we can’t stand is absentee or poorly developed parents. Luckily for us, some authors understand the importance of writing parents who are amazing, understanding and more than just flat characters who get in the… 

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Filed Under: Favorites, Quotes, Top Features Tagged With: gayle forman, harry potter, john green, melina marchetta, Quotes, Rainbow Rowell

Literary Crush: Levi from Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell

October 2, 2013 by Diana 12 Comments

Literary Crush: Levi from Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell

Fan Art courtesy of the incomparable Simini Blocker  Sandie and I love reading a book and realizing both of us have developed a literary crush on the same character. It seems like proof of our sisterly bond that despite being 12 years apart, we have similar tastes in our fictional boyfriends. We’ve had hour-long conversations… 

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Filed Under: Favorites, Literary Crush, Top Features Tagged With: fangirl, literary crush, Rainbow Rowell, swoon worthy boys

Banned Books Week: Quotes From Our Banned Books

September 27, 2013 by Sandie Leave a Comment

Banned Books Week: Quotes From Our Banned Books

Since it’s Banned Books Week, we’re celebrating by sharing quotes from some of our most beloved “Banned” books. Diana and/or I own all of these books, and they’ve meant so much to us as lifelong readers. It’s astonishing to us that even now, in the 21st Century, we’re still dealing with communities that want to… 

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Filed Under: Commentary, Features, Top Features Tagged With: banned books week, books we adore, Quotes, Rainbow Rowell

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