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Loved The Hunger Games? Other Great YA Books That Adults Should Be Reading

Julie Gerstenblatt | Posted 05.23.2012

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Julie Gerstenblatt

For me, reading YA is like having a candy bar in the middle of my lifelong diet. Here are my top picks for grown-ups who sometimes wish they could recapture their teen years or who just like reading about adolescence.

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Not Even Horcruxes Will Make You Invincible

Meghan McCullough | Posted 03.18.2012

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Meghan McCullough

I'm sure all of you have heard adults utter the overused and condescending phrase, "You teenagers think you are invincible." Are we able to fully grasp the concept that life is, in fact, temporary?

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Famous Authors Share Their Writing Secrets!

| Posted 12.12.2011

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Last week, YA greats Lauren McLaughlin (Scored), Scott Westerfeld (Leviathan), David Levithan (Will Grayson, Will Grayson), and Robin Wasserman (Froz...

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Book Review: (Save The Pearls Part One) Revealing Eden

Irene Rubaum-Keller | Posted 01.01.2012

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Irene Rubaum-Keller

What would happen if global warming continued to the point where resistance to deadly solar radiation determined class and beauty? This is the future we encounter in Victoria Foyt's captivating new novel, Revealing Eden.

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Top 10 Young Adult Books Of 2011

| Posted 12.19.2011

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In honor of Teen Read Week, our friends at Figment.com have shared their favorite 10 YA books of 2011. From a story of star-crossed young lovers reuni...

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James Patterson's Young Adult Novel

AP | By SUMMER MOORE | Posted 08.27.2011

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-- "Middle School, The Worst Years of My Life" (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers), by James Patterson and Chris Tebbetts: "Middle School, The Wo...

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S.E. Hinton the Godmother of the YA Novel

Jeff Rivera | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jeff Rivera

Mention The Outsiders in a room full of people and 9 out of 10 of them will sigh with fond memories followed by, "Oh, I love that book!" So, you can ...

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9 Best Science Fiction Novels For Young Adults Besides 'Mockingjay' (PHOTOS)

Posted 05.25.2011

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In case you haven't heard, "Mockingjay," the third and final installment in Suzanne Collins' super-smash "Hunger Games" series, hit bookstores this Tu...

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Why Do Americans Write Such Great Coming-Of-Age Novels?

guardian.co.uk | Posted 05.25.2011

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Is this merely coincidence, or is there something else at work here? Do American writers absorb Bildungsroman aptitude alongside fluoridated water and...

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