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Hans Christian Andersen Award Nominees Announced | News Bites
The International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) has just revealed the 2014 Hans Christian Andersen Award nominees and jury. Twenty-nine authors and 31 illustrators have been selected from 34...
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Teens Review the Latest from Patrick Ness, Susan Beth Pfeffer, and Others
This is a bit amazing—four terrific reviews this issue, and only one for a book in a postapocalyptic setting! The Shade of the Moon from Susan Beth Pfeffer wraps up her “Life As We Knew It” series—for...
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SLJ’s 2014 Battle of the Books Is in Full Swing
A teen at Patrick F. Taylor Sci & Tech Academy in Avondale, Louisiana defending 2014 SLJ BoB contender Far, Far Away by Tom McNeal. School Library Journal ‘s very own version of March Madness, our...
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Magical Thinking in the Real World: YA Lit at SLJ’s Day of Dialog 2015
From the left: Patrick Ness, A.S. King, Allan Stratton, Moira Fowley-Doyle, Daniel José Older, and moderator Angela Carstensen. A panel of acclaimed and debut authors with upcoming YA novels that blur...
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Top Page-to-Screen Adaptations to Put on Your Radar
Photo Credit: Sony/Puffin/Lionsgate/Quirk We’ve all heard (or even said ourselves) the following: “The book is better than the movie.” The move from page to screen is tricky. What works in a book...
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Six Things That Made my Patrick Ness Author Visit a Knockout Success
Patrick Ness in the auditorium at Riverside High School in Leesburg, VA. In November, I had the remarkable opportunity to host the Carnegie-award winning author Patrick Ness at Riverside High School...
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Patrick Ness Raised $1 Million for Refugees. But Don’t Call Him a Saint.
Patrick Ness It’s been about five months since the two-time Carnegie Medal–winning author Patrick Ness sent the tweet that launched a hugely successful fund-raising campaign for Syrian refugees. “Okay,...
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Page to Screen: Rowling Returns and “Children” Cut Loose
Eva Green in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (Photo: Leah Gallo) Will the YA dystopian film genre go the way of “The Divergent Series”? In July, its distributor Lionsgate announced that the...
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A Tween and His Tree |“A Monster Calls” Movie Review
Lewis MacDougall in A Monster Calls (José Haro/Focus Features) Is there room for one more lumbering, hulking creature in the multiplex this year? The answer is a definite yes. Following in the...
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49 Fantastic New Titles | September 2017
Picture Books Barnes, Derrick. Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut. illus. by Gordon C. James. Agate/Bolden. Oct. 2017. p. 98. Barnett, Mac. The Wolf, the Duck, and the Mouse. illus. by Jon Klassen....
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Release by Patrick Ness | SLJ Review
NESS, Patrick. Release. 288p. HarperCollins/HarperTeen. Sept. 2017. Tr $17.99. ISBN 9780062403193. Gr 9 Up –Adam, a rising senior with complex social and familial relationships, experiences the worst...
View ArticleYA: A “Doctor Who” Spin-Off, Teen Greek Gods & More | January 2018 Xpress...
An engaging Spanish-language title about life and love; the true tale of a WWI poet; and a layered, multi-voiced new title about police violence from a teen writing collective are featured in January's...
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