Category Archives: Young Adult

An Abundance of Katherines, by John Green

Posted on July 19, 2009 by Thistle

Colin Singleton, a child prodigy in the mildest sense (meaning he didn’t grow up to be a genius, though still very smart), has a fetish of sorts about girls named Katherine. He’s only ever dated Katherines, and he’s been dumped … Continue reading →

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The Sky Always Hears Me and the Hills Don’t Mind, by Kirstin Cronn-Mills

Posted on July 14, 2009 by Thistle

Morgan lives in Central Nowhere, Nebraska, where people are “all about family values…but that’s only as long as your family and your values are just like everyone else’s.”** She’s dating a dumb-but-kind football player who bores her, she lusts after … Continue reading →

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Kin, by Holly Black

Posted on July 11, 2009 by Thistle

While Tithe by Holly Black wasn’t my favorite book, I decided to give her another chance with this graphic novel. I had about an hour of downtime at ALA while waiting for my friend Debye, plus my feet were killing … Continue reading →

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Reincarnation, by Suzanne Weyn

Posted on July 8, 2009 by Thistle

If you are found worthy you will go directly to the next world. If not, you may have to return to this one to acquire further enlightenment. …The unraveling is the journey. Four souls, locked in a love-quadrangle fraught with … Continue reading →

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Boy Meets Boy, by David Levithan

Posted on July 2, 2009 by Thistle

The storyline to Boy Meets Boy is both very simple and very convoluted. Paul is a high school sophomore, dealing with all the regular things high school sophomores have to deal with. His best friend Tony suffers at home because … Continue reading →

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Beneath My Mother’s Feet, by Amjed Qamar

Posted on June 26, 2009 by Thistle

Nazia lives in working class Karachi, Pakistan. Her family is not rich, but she and her siblings are still able to go to school, and her mother does not have to work outside the home. However, when Nazia’s father is … Continue reading →

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Zel, by Donna Jo Napoli

Posted on June 25, 2009 by Thistle

This book is a retelling of Rapunzel. I’ll keep this short. I didn’t particularly like it. It wasn’t badly written or anything, but I think I’ve just decided I don’t really like fairy tale retellings. I recently tried to start … Continue reading →

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Protected: Tithe, by Holly Black

Posted on June 18, 2009 by Thistle

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A Great and Terrible Beauty, by Libba Bray

Posted on June 16, 2009 by Thistle

When Gemma Doyle’s mother dies, she’s sent from India to an all-girl boarding school in England. There, she has to cope not only with being the strange new girl in a very catty society, but with terrible prophetic visions and … Continue reading →

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Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson

Posted on June 14, 2009 by Thistle

Melinda has become selectively mute. Because she called the cops on the end-of-summer party right before her freshman year, no one wants anything to do with her. Her old friends abandon her, and it becomes impossible to make new friends. … Continue reading →

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