The Evanston Public Library (both the Main Library and Robert Crown Branch) will be closed this Thursday, April 25, for a Staff Development Day.
The Lovely Reckless by Kami Garcia (co-author of Beautiful Creatures) was absolutely amazing!!! It doesn’t come out until October; I received an ARC of it from the author at BookCon. The first twenty or so people in line at Kami’s signing got one. The Lovely Reckless follows a girl named Frankie and a boy named […]
This is my new favorite series…ever! At first, I had to be sold on the idea of a YA fantasy novel that involved faeries and such but I am so glad I stuck with it. The first book introduces you to Feyre (Fay-ruh), our illiterate heroine, who is badass and snarky and can completely hold […]
The Selection. 2012, The Elite. 2013, The One. 2014 This wonderful YA series is kind of like a cross between The Bachelor and The Hunger Games (with less death and gore). It takes place in a society where citizens are divided in castes, numbered One through Eight, each with its own role to play. Ones […]
Wolf by Wolf introduces us to a world where World War II was not won by the allies, but by Hitler and the axis powers instead. Yael, has survived countless experiments on her body by Nazi doctors leaving her looking nothing like herself, but with the ability to transform her features to look like anyone […]
Alex was so sure of her life. She did great in school, loved her adopted family and excelled at baseball. When younger sister begins to question how Alex feels about being mixed when her family is white and then hands her a file her parents have been hiding everything begin to change. From the file […]
The days are getting shorter and shorter until there is no daytime at all only night. This night won’t last a day or two it will last 14 years. Marin, Kana and Line all live on an island where this 14 years of darkness is a reality. Everyone must pack up their things and board ships […]
Driven by strong characters caught in a horrible situation, this story pulled me along as if I were on an unstoppable train. “Challenging” teens, thirteen through seventeen, can be unwound if their parents sign the papers or if they are wards of the state or if their religion deems them to be tithes. To be unwound is to […]
Imagine a family, Mayflower descendants, perfect, blond, and rich enough to own a private island off Martha’s Vineyard. Like Shakespeare’s Lear, the patriarch of the family pits his three daughters against each other for the inheritance. They in turn enlist their older children, four cousins (The Liars) who have spent every summer together on the […]
“Why are there so many dystopian and apocalyptic novels for young adults right now?” you may ask. I think it’s because the news is repeatedly giving us the unnerving and terrifying message that the adults in charge are destroying the world. Therefore, in order to be able to look forward to a future, teens need […]
