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BookTalk Do you remember the stories of your childhood? Tales of magic and creatures who lived among us? When do we stop believing in them? When do we lose the faith? What happened if little red riding hood and the wolf showed up in your backyard? Better yet, what if Queen Mary did appear after [...] 
July 8th, 2011 | Tags: Book Review, book talk, booktalk, Death, family, Fantasy, Miss Peregrines home for Peculiar Children, paranormal, Ransom Riggs, YA Fiction, YA for Boys | Category: BookTalks, Review, YA Lit | Leave a comment  BookTalk Do you remember the stories of your childhood? Tales of magic and creatures who lived among us? When do we stop believing in them? When do we lose the faith? What happened if little red riding hood and the wolf showed up in your backyard? Better yet, what if Queen Mary did appear after [...]
July 8th, 2011 | Tags: Book Review, book talk, booktalk, Death, family, Fantasy, Miss Peregrines home for Peculiar Children, paranormal, Ransom Riggs, YA Fiction, YA for Boys | Category: BookTalks, Review, YA Lit | 2 comments BookTalk “As a kid, I imagined lots of different scenarios for my life. I would be an astronaut. Maybe a cartoonist. A famous explorer or rock star. Never once did I see myself standing under the window of a house belonging to some druggie named Carbine, waiting for his yard gnome to steal his stash [...]
June 13th, 2011 | Tags: Angels, Book Review, book talk, booktalk, Death, family, Going Bovine, Libba Bray, Printz Award, relationships, YA Fiction, YA for Boys | Category: BookTalks, Review, YA Lit | Leave a comment BookTalk When was the last time you left your house without your phone? I’ll turn around halfway to work if I don’t have mine. I feel so disconnected if I don’t have it. This chilling novel imagines a society dominated by the “Feed” a next-generation Internet/television/smartphone hybrid that is hardwired directly into the brain. [...]
June 8th, 2011 | Tags: Book Review, book talk, booktalk, Dystopian, Feed, M. T. Anderson, National Book Award, YA Fiction, YA for Boys | Category: BookTalks, Review, YA Lit | Leave a comment BookTalk Clay Jensen comes home from school and finds a package waiting for him…He’s excited…Nothing like an unexpected package – with no return addresss – to make your day. What Clay finds inside is a shoebox full of cassette tapes. What he hears when he inserts the first tape is the voice of Hannah [...]
June 4th, 2011 | Tags: Book Review, book talk, booktalk, Death, Jay Asher, Review, Suicide, Thirteen Reasons Why, YA Fiction, YA for Boys | Category: BookTalks, Review, YA Lit | Leave a comment BookTalk They caught Number One in Malaysia. Number Two in England. And Number Three in Kenya. They killed them all. I am Number Four. I am next. John Smith appears to be an average American teenager. He’s kinda cute, quiet, avoids P.E., and he’s really hoping that blonde junior in his science class will notice [...]
May 24th, 2011 | Tags: action, alien, Book Review, book talk, booktalk, I Am Number Four, Pittacus Lore, Series, YA Fiction, YA for Boys | Category: BookTalks, Review, YA Lit | Leave a comment BookTalk On the outside he was The Bruiser, Voted Most Likely to Get the Death Penalty. A big, lumbering, withdrawn kid from the wrong side of the tracks. A kid who looked like he could take you down with one punch just for talking to him. On the inside he does the impossible. He takes [...]
April 26th, 2011 | Tags: abuse, booktalk, family, problem novel, relationships, YA Fiction, YA for Boys | Category: BookTalks, Uncategorized, YA Lit | Leave a comment Warning: This book is slow to start. Warning: This book is confusing for at least the first 30 pages. Warning: This book will become so addictive you’ll shut out the world to finish it… Seriously, Think Hunger Games addicting… Like The Hunger Games, The Maze Runner is a dystopian fantasy teen trilogy. I’d recommend it to the same [...]
April 13th, 2011 | Tags: addictive, Dystopian, Fantasy, YA for Boys | Category: Uncategorized, YA Lit | Leave a comment |
               
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