Black History Month Videos 2015 #1
Tag: YA literature
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This year is starting with a big bang with and excellent five-star YA novel. I finally chose one that is living up to my expectations and isn’t a long puffed up series. The story is about Melinda Sordino. She’s starting her first year of high school and no one is speaking to her, including her […]
27. The Perks of Being a Wallflower
A wallflower is a shy, unpopular person who stands or sits apart from other people at a party. Charlie is a wallflower. He’s the most observant, sensitive, and highly intelligent character in this book. He recounts all the trials and tribulations of family life and being an adolescent through letters which are written to Dear […]
1. Summer reading……
YA Literature – for adolescents between the ages of 15 and 18 and all those young at heart adults like me. Here are a few interesting YA books to check out this summer. They have been talked about to death everywhere, except Living Violet. It was a suggestion that I got from a literary blog […]
TBR: Check it out!
Philippa Gregory the queen of historical fiction has published her first YA novel called Changeling in the Order of Darkness series. It takes place in 15th century Europe. The main characters are Luca Vero and Isolde. They are both seventeen and headed for a whirlwind adventure filled with mysterious strangers, witches, dark magic, werewolves, and much […]
21. Anna and the French Kiss
I have just started to add reading YA novels to my repertoire because some of them are pretty interesting and secondly it enables me to suggest good books to the French kids I tutor in English. I’m an English Foreign Language teacher in France and have come to the conclusion that students have difficulty writing […]
12. Catching Fire
And the games continue….Suzanne Collins continues the saga of Katniss Everdeen and the districts of Panem in this very suspenseful second novel of the trilogy The Hunger Games called Catching Fire. Ominously dark and mysterious, we see Katniss and Peeta living in the Victors Village along with Haymitch. Three houses alone in a neighborhood. Katniss […]
10. The Hunger Games
This trilogy has sat on my shelf for at least a year. I’ve meant to get to it. Really. My oldest daughter grabbed it off the shelf during the winter break holidays and devoured the first two books in 6 days. She usually doesn’t read big books in English. She’s a manga fan, and she […]
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