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by   SLJ Reviews   Jun 08, 2020 | Filed in  Reviews From summer camp to improv troupes to rom coms, these YA reads keep things light as the days get longer. XL   by Scott Brown. Knopf. ISBN 9781524766245. Will Daughtry is under five feet tall and very bitter about it. His height infiltrates his every thought and is obviously why he's never had a girlfriend. Then Will starts growing…and keeps growing. Please Send Help  by Gaby Dunn & Allison Raskin. Wednesday Bks. ISBN 9781250216533. Duo Dunn and Raskin are back in this sequel to  I Hate Everyone But You , with a laugh-out-loud funny, heartfelt, and deep look at what it’s like to stumble along your first “real world” job after college. My Life Gone Viral  by Rae Earl. Imprint. ISBN 9781250133809. The sequel to  My Life Uploaded  features Millie (and her cat, Dave) trying to maintain their viral vlog success. We Are the Perfect Girl  by Ariel Kaplan. Knop...

Kelly Jensen   May 26, 2020 If you haven’t yet picked any  Neal Shusterman books , chances are you’ve heard his name. His work has been a staple of YA literature for decades, with his first novel for young readers publishing in 1988, and his most recent Arc of the Scythe series concluding in late 2019. His book  Challenger Deep  won a National Book Award and  Scythe  won a Printz Honor award, two of the most prestigious honors for YA books. His career, while already long and successful, will be burning even brighter over the next few years as numerous books see their way to film and television adaptation. In addition to writing books for young readers, Shusterman has written for television as well. The movie  Pixel Perfect , written for the Disney Channel, was one of his titles, as are several episodes of the popular  Goosebumps  and  Animorphs  series. “It started back when I was 17, and was working as a counselor at a su...

I am a HUGE YA fantasy junkie. Though it’s easy to go wrong in this genre – poor world-building, unbelievable characters, and the like – when the books are good, they’re  really  good. Below I’ve collated 20 completed YA fantasy series which are either so good you have to read them for the first time, or so good you ought to revisit them. I’ve also included little quotations from each series to give you a flavour of what they might be like, above the summaries. 20 COMPLETED YA FANTASY SERIES TO REVISIT OR PICK UP FOR THE FIRST TIME #1. FOLK OF THE AIR TRILOGY BY HOLLY BLACK 1.  The Cruel Prince 2.  The Wicked King 3.  The Queen of Nothing If I cannot be better than them, I will become so much worse. 17-year-old Jude Duarte lives in Faerie with her twin sister Taryn and their adoptive father, Madoc, after Madoc killed their real parents. As the only humans in the world of fae, they’re at significant risk. Chief among their enemies is Prince ...

Twihards, unite! Whether fans of the  Twilight  franchise rallied behind #TeamEdward or #TeamJacob, they have something in common with a couple of A-listers, including  Halsey ,  Stevie Nicks ,  Adam Lambert  and  Evanescence . With  Twilight  author Stephenie Meyers  releasing its new addition   Midnight Sun  in August, avid readers might have the same summer reading list as their favorite artists -- or they might just be binge-watching the first 2008 film like the "Bad At Love" singer. Here are all the times that musicians gushed about Hollywood's hottest blood-suckers. Adam Lambert dressed up as a "glam-pire" for Halloween. Adam Lambert 's favorite holiday is Halloween, so it comes as no surprise that he dressed up as a character from his favorite film series in 2009. "I'm going as a glam-pire," the  American Idol  alum told  RadarOnline . "I love  Twilight , I love vampires, I’m a big fan,...