It is the END, my friends! THE END of YAAM! It was the best of months; we had loads of fun, we nearly collapsed under the stress but we.Did.It. And of course, we loved it! It is with a bit of sadness that we say goodbye to YAAM (until next year) and resume with the [...]
Welcome to our latest guest post in the YAAM – 2010 edition. As part of our celebration of all things YA, we invited authors from different genres to write about the books and the genres they write.
Today’s guest is Karen Healey, author of one of our favourite 2010 books, Guardian of the Dead. [...]
Joint Review: Plain Kate by Erin Bow
Author: Erin Bow
Publisher: Arthur A. Levine Books
Publication Date: September 2010
Hardcover: 336 pages
Plain Kate lives in a world of superstitions and curses, where a song can heal a wound and a shadow can work deep magic. As the wood-carver’s [...]
“Inspirations and Influences” is a series of articles in which we invite authors to write guest posts talking about their…well, Inspirations and Influences. The cool thing is that the writers are given free reign so they can go wild and write about anything they want. It can be about their new book, series or about [...]
Book Review: WE by John Dickinson
Author: John Dickinson
Genre: Science Fiction, “Young Adult”
Publisher: David Fickling Books (UK)
Publication Date: January 2010
Paperback: 288 pages
Paul Munro must leave Earth. He is sent to a station at the edge of the solar system, that is manned by just four people. [...]
Book Review: John Belushi is Dead by Kathy Charles
Title: John Belushi is Dead (US)/ Hollywood Ending (AUS)
Author: Kathy Charles
Genre: YA/ Contemporary
Publisher: Text (AUS) / MTV (US)
Publication Date: 2009 (AUS) / August 24 2010 (US)
Paperback: 320 pages
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Book Review & Giveaway: Dark Life by Kat Falls
Title: Dark Life
Author: Kat Falls
Genre: Post-apocalypse, Dystopia, Speculative Fiction, Young Adult
Publisher: Scholastic (US) / Simon & Schuster (UK)
Publication Date: May 2010 (US) / August 2010 (UK)
Hardcover: 304 Pages
The oceans rose up, swallowing up the lowlands. Earthquakes [...]
Authors: Team Unicorn edited by Holly Black – Kathleen Duey, Meg Cabot, Garth Nix, Margo Lanagan, Naomi Novik & Diana Peterfreund; Team Zombie edited by Justine Larbalestier – Libba Bray, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Cassandra Clare, Maureen Johnson, Carrie Ryan & Scott Westerfeld
Genre: [...]
Welcome to our sixth guest post of YAAM, the 2010 edition. As part of our celebration of all things YA, we have invited authors from different genres to write articles about the books and the genres they write.
Today’s guests are none other than Smuggler [...]
Alas, it is our fifth and final week of Young Adult Appreciation Month! But fret not, because we have some awesomeness planned to send YAAM out with a bang.
Giveaway Winner:
We haz one. The lucky winner of our giveaway of The Thief-Taker’s Apprentice [...]
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