All Blog Posts Tagged 'young adult challenge' (5)

i think jane yolen is one of the truly great ya authors. this "sleeping beauty" story is truly a tale of victims of the holocaust - specifically victims not usually mentioned in general holocaust literature. rebecca's grandmother, gemma, is constantly telling her the story of sleeping beauty...but… Continue

i heard mixed reviews about phillip reeve's larklight before i read it and could see for sure how it's a sort of love/hate book...though i have to say i was right about lukewarm for it. art and his sister myrtle (young teenagers) live with their father (their mother is dead) in a spaceship/house c… Continue

i chose this book because i really liked elsewhere by gabriel zevin and i was not dissapointed in memoirs. after naomi falls down the steps of her school and bangs her head, she has lost all memory of the past four years. naomi has forgotten her boyfriend, her best friend, her parents divorce, the… Continue

donna jo napoli's hush tells the story of melkorka, a princess living in medieval ireland. she is used to being taken care of by servants and much of her family's wealth is dependant on slave labor - something that melkorka has no problem with. when her brother's hand is cut off by a norseman, melkor… Continue

i started this book on the elliptical at the gym and by about 1am i had finished it...along with all the other stuff i have to do during the day. catherine murdock did a fantastic job in making d.j. a likable protagonist and making red bend, wisconsin a memorable setting. as d.j. works her father's dairy farm (he's injured) and navigates through her feelings about her family, football, and brian (the quarter back of the rival high school's football team). d.j. had the tone, the awkwardness, the… Continue