Category Archives: Young Adult Titles

This unique YA novel reads like an adventure fantasy, but doesn’t take place in a fictional otherworldly realm, but rather in the horrific real-life  (but also, it has to be said, equally fantastic and otherworldly) landscape of a Third World … Continue reading →

Scott Westerfeld, author of Pretties and Uglies, turns his focus, in this new series, on an alternate futuristic history of World War I.  In Leviathan Alek finds himself an orphan after his parents are killed in Serbia (sound familiar?).  His guardians spirit … Continue reading →

Brontë and Tennyson are twins, children of (do I need to say it?) English professors.  When Brontë starts hanging around with Brewster, Tennyson intervenes as the concerned overprotective older brother (older by minutes, that is).  In the process he befriends … Continue reading →

  Monsters of Men is the completely awesome conclusion to the Chaos Walking trilogy, tying up nicely all the loose ends in its final pages (unlike the first two installments which ended in infuriating cliffhangers).  Chaos Walking is futuristic dystopian … Continue reading →

Another book by Cassandra Clare in the teenage paranormal genre.  Her series The Mortal Instruments represented such a successful formula that she takes it back in time 140 or so years ago to Victorian London.  London just lends itself to … Continue reading →

The much anticipated wrap-up of the Hunger Games trilogy is a bit of a downer, to say the least.  The battle leaves the Quarter Quell arena and envelops all the districts in a horribly violent and destructive civil war between … Continue reading →