Five years ago a former co-worker and I started a teen program we called a Prom Dress Swap. Like most women in their mid to late twenties, I’d amassed a number of formal dresses from weddings and high school banquets that I never wore anymore. They were in great condition but just hanging in the closet taking up space when I thought “why not create a program out of this at the library?” And Project Prom […]
Tag: young adult
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 […]
Book Review: The Here and Now by Ann Brashares
The Here and Now By Ann Brashares This is the story of seventeen-year-old Prenna James. She immigrated to New York when she was twelve. But there’s something unique about Prenna – she didn’t come from another country, she came from the future. Prenna, along with a group of others , traveled back in time to escape a deadly mosquito-borne blood plague that nearly wiped out the population. The time travelers are required to live […]
Book Review: The Selection, by Kiera Cass
What happens when you cross The Bachelor with The Hunger Games and throw in a little Princess Diaries? You get The Selection, by Kiera Cass. Set in the former United States of America, now called Illea, society is ruled by a king and people are divided into eight different social classes with pre-determined roles in society. Moving up in the caste system is rare, but once every few generations a prince chooses a wife in a unusual way. […]
Young Adult Dystopian Fiction: Coming to a Big and Small Screen Near You
Dystopian fiction is nothing new, but has seen a huge rise in popularity over the past few years with the success of Suzanne Collins’ bestselling YA series, The Hunger Games. And just like what the Twilight phenomenon did for the surging popularity of vampires and werewolves, The Hunger Games is doing for dystopian fiction. Many dystopian series are equally as popular with both the young adult and adult crowd and fill the shelves at your […]