I am a girl, and I read comics. Sadly for a lot of people, still, this statement is an oxymoron. Unfortunately a lot of my students think so too. The problem? People still think that reading comics means you are either a superhero or sci-fi fan. I am neither. People think comics are pulp fiction, trash, over-violent, …
The Queen of Teen awards is back and now is the time for teenage readers to get involved by nominating their favourite female author The Queen of Teen award was founded in 2008 to celebrate the feistiest, frothiest and most fantastic writers for the tween and teen market. There have already been two reigns from two inspiring …
Tabitha Suzuma(Definitions) Lochan is an extremely intelligent and sensitive 17 year old boy who has a hard time imteracting with others outside of the family coccoon. Maya is a pretty and sensible 16 year old girl, who is popular at school. They are brother and sister. At home they are also surrogate parents to their three …
Melissa de la Cruz (Atom books) No more love triangles. No more forbidden love. No more vampires!!! That’s what I had promised myself after reading what felt like one too many teen vampire books (Marked, by PC & Kristen Cast, which was abysmal. I read the second in the series too, just in case I had …
Anna Godbersen(Penguin) I shamelessly admit that I have loved the Luxe series, which follows a group of young upper-class people in New York at the turn of the twentieth-century. It’s all there: the kind, beautiful heroine who is in love with someone she should not; her hateful so-called best friend who stops at nothing to get …
Margo Lanagan(David Fickling Books) Teenage mother Liga escapes to her own alternative world after enduring unspeakable cruelties at the hands of her father first then a gang of town boys.The world she escapes to is a mirror image of the one she comes from apart from all the cruel and evil people from her village …
Catherine Jinks(Quercus Books) Yes, I know, everybody is sick of vampire/supernatural fiction. It’s everywhere isn’t it? And it’s getting hard to decipher between the good from the “I want a bit of Stephenie Meyer’s fame” books! But if you are sick of all the vampires (I am not, I’ll admit!), then this is the book …
Daniel Waters(Simon & Schuster Children’s Books) I’ll admit, I chose this book primarily because I wanted something to get my teeth (fangs?) into after Twilight and this looked just it. I mean, the marketing department did well there: the cover (at least the British one) is very similar and the blurb would really have you …
