Dystopian young adult fiction takes the chaos of adolescent development and transforms it into a narrative which provides both an outlet and a map to the teen audience — and any parent looking for a way into her teenage child’s brain.
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It’s usually difficult to find the elusive Natasha Romanoff, but not today: You can now find Black Widow starring her own young adult title, ‘Forever Red,’ in bookstores everywhere.
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Lois Lane stars in her own YA novel from Switch Press.
Continue ReadingThe GeekMoms have taken advantage of Spring Breaks and Easter holidays to get some reading in.
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Delilah S. Dawson is an author, a mom, a geek, a cowgirl, an artist, and more.
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Is the girl crazy? Is there really a world where children are like gods? Or is there a dark reality hidden behind the story? The Riverman Trilogy.
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Chuck Wendig’s latest young adult novel, Atlanta Burns, is causing a bit of a stir around the interwebs.
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Love to read creepy books on chilly nights? Here are 10 to try this fall and winter, from middle grade to adult.
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These are the new fall releases at the top of school librarian and GeekMom Jackie’s To Read pile.
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The new YA novel makes you paint an entirely new universe in your mind; one that has battles, magic, and love, all on the back of a giant turtle.
Continue ReadingLast weekend saw the UK’s very first Young Adult Literature Convention (YALC) take place as part of the London Film and Comic Con. Fifty YA authors spoke on a range of subjects from sex to fan fiction, graphic novels to dystopias.
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It has been a difficult six months for author Sarah Daltry but both she and her Backward Compatible co-author Pete Clarke agreed to talk to us about the book, future projects, and whether or not aliens exist…
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This month the GeekMoms have run the gamut from new interpretations of Beowulf to a murder mystery in post-Revolutionary War New England. There are graphic novels filled with aliens and wizards, shadowy government organizations, teenage boys painting models in their bedrooms, and girls being discovered floating in cello cases. If something there doesn’t pique your interest then I don’t know what will!
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Sure, it’s a love story about two teens with cancer. But did they get the details right?
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This One Summer is a new graphic novel by Mariko and Jillian Tamaki. It is a YA book that transcends the genre into where most adult novelists wish they could go: honest and nuanced characters in that familiar world you forgot to cherish. The details of a summer beach town, and two girls on the brink of teen, may not be your memories, but the yearnings, confusion, and relationships certainly will reveal half-buried reminisces.
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Backward Compatible is a boy-meets-girl romance for people like us and is crammed full of more geek references than an entire season of Community.
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In February, an intriguing new fiction trilogy that pays homage to the inventor and scientist kicks off in Tesla’s Attic.
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Ecology gets a space-adventure for young adults in a new book by K.H. Brower. Green Tara: A Bosque Family Adventure is set in a future where Earth can no longer sustain life.. Can one girl change that and bring humans back home?
Continue ReadingKiller of Enemies by Joseph Bruchac is about Lozen, a young warrior trying to keep her family alive in a post-apocalyptic world where electricity no longer works and monsters and myths once again roam the earth. Lozen’s most powerful tool is her compassion.
Continue ReadingThe book you should be reading if you haven’t already turned its last page and been moved by its message.
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