Since the Divergent and Hunger Games series have wrapped up their sagas, teens may be looking for the next big thing. There aren’t a lot of series getting much buzz right now and it seems like dystopian is dead. Vampires certainly are and zombies may be on their way out too. What does seem to be emerging is a trend are stories featuring characters with special abilities – maybe YA authors are cashing in on the popularity […]
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John Green is Not For Me
If the library world was a kingdom, disliking John Green would be equal to treason against the throne. At the moment, his books reign supreme in YA literature and when The Fault in Our Stars was released, realistic fiction made a triumphant return and dystopian was declared dead. Publishers are scrambling to find authors just like him & his endorsement alone can catapult a novel to stardom. (Eleanor and Park anyone?) Everyone is madly […]