Friday, December 27, 2013

Official 2013 Teens' Top Ten List

And the Winners are: 2013 Teens' Top Ten.

Don't want to watch a video clip? Here's the print list: YALSA Teens Top Ten 2013 .

You like Tumblr? Take a look at Young Adult Readers' Tumblr page:

Voting for the 2014 Top Ten begins in April, 2014. 

YALSA's Teen Book Finder is a free app to help teens and anyone who loves YA literature have access to the past three years' of YALSA's awards and lists on their smartphone.

Have an iPod Touch, an iPhone or an iPad? Download the app now!

Android version coming in 2014.

Anna Reads--blogging new YA books





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Anna reviews YA romance. She's good. Check her out if you're looking for new authors.


















Great Funny Books Written by and for Guys



Calame, Don, Swim the Fly 
Cook & Halpin, Notes from the Blender
Wizner, Jake, Spanking Shakespeare**
Paulsen, Gary, Crush: the Theory, Practice and Destructive Properties of Love
Rudetsky, Seth, My Awesome Awful Popularity Plan 
Schmidt, Gary D., Okay for Now**
Scieszka, Jon, editor, Guys Read: Funny Business
Levithan & Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson
Vizzini , Ned, Be More Chill (scifi crossed with humor)
Alexie, Sherman, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian**
Pratchett, Terry, The Wee Free Men** (fantasy + humor)
Bagdasarian, Adam, First French Kiss and Other Traumas
Fleischman, Paul, A Fate Totally Worse Than Death
Koertge, Ron, Confess-O-Rama
Wizner, Jake, Spanking Shakespeare 
Nodelman, Perry, Behaving Bradley
Paulsen , Gary, The Schernoff Discoveries
Paulsen, Gary, Harris & Me**
Pinkwater, Daniel, 5 Novels
Snicket, Lemony, A Bad Beginning
Strasser, Todd, How I Spent My Last Night on Earth
Azuma, Kiyohiko, Yotsuba&!: Volume 1.
Gaiman & Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch**
Groening, Matt, Simpsons Comics Barn Burner
Korman, Gordon, No More Dead Dogs
Martinez, A. Lee Gil's All Fright Diner by
Moore, Christopher, Bloodsucking Fiends: a Love Story

Payne, C.D., Frisco Pigeon Mambo
Rees, Douglas, Vampire High
Shusterman, Neil, The Schwa Was Here**
Smith, Jeff, Out From Boneville
Watterson, Bill, The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book***
Wilson, Daniel H., How to Survive a Robot Uprising
Ghislain, Gary, How I Stole Johnny Depp's Girlfriend 


**highly recommended by Anne

Thursday, December 12, 2013

YA Romance List



Straight YA Romance in Normal Settings:



This is What Happy Looks Like- Jennifer E. Smith


Eleanor and Park- Rainbow Rowell


Fangirl- Rainbow Rowell


Second Chance Summer- Morgan Matson


Amy and Roger's Epic Detour- Morgan Matson


Coffeehouse Angel- Suzanne Selfors

Love and Leftovers- Sarah Tregay


Instructions for a Broken Heart- Kim Culbertson


The Symptoms of My Insanity- Mindy Raf


45 Pounds- K.A. Barson


Saving Francesca- Melina Marchetta

YA Romance with Fantasy/Sci-Fi extras:



Thief Eyes- Janni Lee


Scarlet- A.C. Gaugher


Dragonfly- Julia Golding


Conjured- Sarah Beth Durst


Ice- Sarah Beth Durst


Swan Kingdom- Zoe Marriott


Chalice- Robin McKinley


Sunshine- Robin McKinley


Wicked Lovely- Melissa Marr

Chime- Franny Billinsley


The Treachery of Beautiful Things- Ruth Frances Long


Blood and Chocolate- Annette Curtis Klause

City of a Thousand Dolls- Miriam Forster

recommended by Roseanne


Thursday, December 5, 2013

The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart

"To: Headmaster:

I, Frankie Landau-Banks, hereby confess..."

Pranks galore at Alabaster Prep and Frankie's the mastermind.

It's laugh out loud funny

Check it out.







recommended by Roseanne