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Irish YA(ish) books I’m looking forward to in 2011…
Angel Kiss (Laura Jane Cassidy) is out in May. Heard a bit of this at the Literary Café and am very excited about it! Realistic fiction set in Ireland, with a supernatural-crime twist for good measure....
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That time of year for yearly round-ups, so…. here are my favourite twelve YA books of 2010. With some bonus statistics. Short story collections: 1 Collaborations: 1 Single-author novels: 10 Dystopian:...
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Bumped (Megan McCafferty) – because I am so excited to see what the author of the Jessica Darling quintet does with a high school dystopia scenario. Divergent (Veronica Roth) – because the author...
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Anne Fine – The Road of Bones Nifty book set in a vague version of Soviet Russia – very fable-like in some ways (reminded me of John Boyne’s stuff for kids) but with an appropriately dark edge to it....
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Jodi Picoult – Sing You Home I absolutely devoured this book, because apparently Jodi Picoult books are sort of like my crack cocaine. Sing You Home is a trademark Picoult novel in that it focuses on...
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Jeff Kinney – Diary of a Wimpy Kid (series) A bit late to the party on this one – after various recommendations, including from young students, I picked up the first book and loved it. Greg’s journal –...
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–> Author Susie Day talks about boarding schools in fiction and how they match up to the ones in real life. As someone who always wanted to go to Malory Towers, I nodded an awful lot while reading...
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Catching up with books I’ve read… not so much recently but recent-ish-ly. Jeri Smith-Ready – Shift Absolutely adored this book, the sequel to Shade and the second in a trilogy which will conclude with...
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Recently went to see Young Adult with some lovely ladies, the film in which Charlize Theron plays a woman who can’t quite get over her high school glory days. This extends to her career as a...
View ArticleGoing Too Far – YA panel recap
Having been called ‘a swot’ by certain fellow YA writers for scribbling notes throughout the Going Too Far? YA discussion panel at the ever-lovely Mountains to Sea festival in Dun Laoghaire, I figured...
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