Category Archives: books for young adults
Sacred scars getting close
One of my two most anticipated books of 2009 is coming out in August. That’s next month! The book is Sacred scars by Kathleen Duey and it is the sequel to 2008 Golden Bookboy winner, Skin hunger. I previously mentioned that you can read the first chapter online, but perhaps you haven’t even read Skin hunger yet. If that is the case, get yourself to a bookstore or library and read it. Go on. Do it now. So you are … Continue reading
Reading Matters 2009 podcasts
For those unable to attend the recent Reading Matters conference , there are a few podcasts now available. Tim Flannery, John Green, Mal Peet, M.T. Anderson, and a panel discussion about growing up Muslim in Australia are available for your downloading pleasure over at insideadog.com.au
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Into white silence, by Anthony Eaton
For almost two years now, the small leather-bound journal of Lieutenant William Downes has been sitting on a corner of my writing desk, defying me. I must confess that I’ve lost track of the number of times I’ve sat here in the twenty months since the diary came into my possession, leafing through its pages and then staring out my study window at the distant Brindabella Mountains, sometimes for hours, trying to come to terms with the horrors contained within. … Continue reading
An abundance of Katherines, by John Green
The morning after noted child prodigy Colin Singleton graduated from high school and got dumped for the nineteenth time by a girl named Katherine, he took a bath. Colin had always preferred baths; one of his general policies in life was never do anything standing up that could just as easily be done lying down. An abundance of Katherines was the second book by John Green. It was published after his made-of-awesome award winning breakout novel Looking for Alaska, but … Continue reading
Paper towns, by John Green
“Here’s what’s not beautiful about it: from here, you can’t see the rust or the cracked paint or whatever, but you can tell what the place really is. You see how fake it all is. It’s not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It’s a paper town. I mean look at it Q: look at all those cul-de-sacs, those streets that turn in on themselves, all the houses that were built to fall apart. All those paper … Continue reading
Watch Neil Gaiman read The graveyard book
Feel like reading Neil Gaiman’s wonderful, Newbery Award winning The graveyard book but too lazy to do so for yourself and feel that listening to an audio book doesn’t quite cut the mustard? Perhaps you would rather watch a video of Neil himself reading the books. Well, now you can. Head over to mousecircus, his site for young readers and you’ll find videos of Neil reading The graveyard book, chapter by chapter. While there, you can watch the Coraline movie … Continue reading
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