THE MIDNIGHT DRESS by Karen Foxlee
The Midnight Dress by Karen Foxlee Released on 30 January 2013 through UQP 336 pages ISBN 9780702249648 RRP $29.95 Rose Lovell is used to moving around a lot. Her life with her father has followed a…
Book to film adaptation: SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK
Film adaptations of popular books are clearly the new black. While this may not be entirely true across all genres, I think it absolutely is for young adult (YA) books. Perhaps without meaning to, the Harry…
RED RAIN by R. L. Stine
Red Rain by R. L. Stine Released 18 October 2012 through Random House 384 pages ISBN 9780857521378 RRP $32.95 Sigh. SIGH SIGH SIGH SIGH SIGH. I had such high hopes for this book. I haven’t read a…
THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE HER by Junot Díaz
This is How You Lose Her by Junot Díaz Released in September 2012 through Allen & Unwin 224 pages ISBN 9780571294190 RRP $27.99 Prior to reading This is How You Lose Her, I’d never read any Junot Díaz. For a…
THE DARKEST MINDS by Alexandra Bracken
It’s been a while since a book has affected my emotions as much as The Darkest Minds did. Sure other books have made me feel joy and happiness and sadness, but nothing in recent months…
MR PENUMBRA’S 24-HOUR BOOKSTORE by Robin Sloan
Anyone who knows me reasonably well will know that I am still, for the most part, avoiding digital books. I am a bibliophile–I love physical books and I take pride in the way they line…
EVERY DAY by David Levithan
Sometimes it feels like YA romance fiction has been done to death. Boy meets girl or girl meets boy, there is an obstacle, there is usually a paranormal/supernatural twist, there is quite often a girl…
LIAR & SPY by Rebecca Stead
In the Publishers Weekly review of Liar & Spy, the novel is described as “as close to perfect as middle-grade novels come”. I’ll be honest–this almost made me choose not to read it. I was in ‘middle-grade’…
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