15 year-old Helen Connor doesn’t lead the most exciting life. Her parents work all the time, her boyfriend prefers LARPing to spending time with her, the best experience she can expect from her classmates is being ignored, and she’s stuck in the tiny town of Hollingsworth. She thinks everything will change when she becomes a…
Tag: young adult fiction
First Chapter, First Paragraph: The House of Hades
(First Chapter, First Paragraph is hosted by Bibliophile By the Sea. Every Tuesday we share the first paragraph or two of a book we’re reading or thinking about reading soon. Care to join us?) I’ve followed Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson and the Olympians and The Heroes of Olympus series since the beginning, and am glad…
Review: Theodosia and the Serpents of Chaos
Theodosia Throckmorton is only 11 years old, but she’s already got her hands full at London’s Museum of Legends and Antiquities. Her father is the head curator and her mother a famous explorer, but neither of them ever seem to notice the powerful curses and black magic spells attached to the relics they bring home….
Review: Fangirl
Twin sisters Cather and Wren have always done everything together: school, extracurricular activities, and writing fan fiction about Simon Snow, their favorite fantasy series. It’s what kept them sane after their mother left. Cath has always known she could do anything with Wren by her side. But now the girls are in college, and Wren…
Review: Little Women and Me
When 14 year-old Emily March is given an English assignment to write about what changes she would make in order to improve a classic novel, Little Women comes immediately to mind. If she can’t fix her own problems — her crush actually likes her sister, and she’s sick being the middle child — maybe she…