Episode 1: Book of Secrets (The Daring Adventures of Captain Lucy Smokeheart)
This first book in a serial installment, is a cute and fun little adventure; well done with a lighthearted style, fun characters and just enough action and susp...
Tag: young adult fiction
Free Audiobooks! SYNC 2013 Titles Revealed
SYNC is a program that gives away two complete audiobook downloads–a current Young Adult title paired thematically with a Classic or Required Summer Reading tit...
Wildwood by Colin Meloy
I found it to be creative and imaginative despite having some very classic tropes (enchanted land cut off from "normal" civilization, a witch who allows a coupl...
The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater
This was so different than so many fantasy stories. The characters are so unique and so well developed that reading it is one of those rare pleasures where you...
Okay For Now selected for NPR's Backseat Book Club
Kudos to NPR because Okay For Now is a great book. Here is what I said about Wednesday Wars and Okay For Now back in 2011: Great stories, great characters, ima...
Revisiting Harry Potter via Audio Books
This is not a revelation but you just forget how much more detail and imagination is involved in reading (or listening) to a book rather than watching a movie (...