The Yggysey by Daniel Pinkwater
One of the best YA novel's of 2009, Daniel Pinkwater's sequel to The Neddiad (inspired by The Illiadis The Yggyssey (similarly inspired by The Odyssey) is charming, interesting, and often quite funny....
View ArticleLeviathan by Scott Westerfeld
Scott Westerfeld’s Leviathan is a thoroughly delightful Young Adult novel, the first in a series based on an alternate history World War I. In this history Charles Darwin discovered the genetic basis...
View ArticleFire: Tales of Elemental Spirits by Robin McKinley and Peter Dickinson
Husband and wife Peter Dickinson and Robin McKinley have each had remarkable writing careers as individuals. This is the second book (after Water, Putnam 2002) they have written together, collaborating...
View ArticleDouble Review: Foiled by Jane Yolen & Mike Cavallaro / Zeus: King of the Gods...
Two graphic books from the First Second (:01): Foiled, written by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Mike Cavallaro parries with plenty of well-known themes, including role-playing games, but for younger...
View ArticleVoices of Dragons by Carrie Vaughn
Carrie Vaughn is known for her series of novels about Kitty Norville, werewolf and radio talk show host. She has two more Kitty novels appearing in 2010 but, happily, she is expanding her range, with a...
View ArticleBones of Faerie by Janni Lee Simner
Janni Lee Simner makes an impressive debut with her first novel for young adults, Bones of Faerie. With graceful prose, primal tragedy, and a rigorous avoidance of the teen angst that makes so many...
View ArticleThief Eyes by Janni Lee Simner
Choosing a setting rarely seen in English-language YA fiction, Simner brings the remote, quake-racked island vividly to life. She inhabits her Iceland with complex, sympathetic characters who pay steep...
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