Teen books

Coming Soon to Theaters: Ender’s Game

Rachel Kent

Blogger: Rachel Kent

Location: Books & Such main office, Santa Rosa, Calif.

Today’s pick: Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card

Here’s the link to the movie page: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1731141/

Ender’s Game, from my understanding, is a book that many filmmakers have wanted to option, but author…

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Coming Soon to Theaters: The Hunger Games

Rachel Kent

Blogger: Rachel Kent

Location: The Lodge @ Sonoma in Sonoma, Calif. for the Books & Such Agents’ Planning Summit

I’d like to spend this week talking about books that soon will be movies. We can discuss what we think has given them…

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The Book That Inspired My Love of YA Fantasy

Rachel Kent

Blogger: Rachel Kent

Location: Books & Such main office, Santa Rosa, Calif.

I think a lot of younger readers would say the Harry Potter series introduced them to young adult fantasy. Some might say it was Twilight. For my generation and for…

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Friday Free-For-All: Next Up on the Reading List

Rachel Kent

Blogger: Rachel Kent

Location: Books & Such main office, Santa Rosa, Calif.

For our free-for-all, I’d like to share what’s next on my reading list, and I’d like to hear what’s next on yours. Don’t worry; your next book doesn’t need to…

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General Market YA Fiction: Marked

Rachel Kent

Blogger: Rachel Kent

Location: Books & Such main office, Santa Rosa, Calif.

Marked by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast

I read this book a little while ago; it’s not one of my most recent reads, but I want to use this book to…

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General Market Fairytale: Violet Eyes

Rachel Kent

Blogger: Rachel Kent

Location: Books & Such main office, Santa Rosa, Calif.

Violet Eyes by Debbie Viguie

I have read many of the YA books in the Once Upon a Time series. Fairytales are a strong trend in general market YA. I picked this…

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CBA YA Fairytale: Review of The Healer’s Apprentice

Rachel Kent

Blogger: Rachel Kent

Location: Books & Such main office, Santa Rosa, Calif.

The Healer’s Apprentice by Melanie Dickerson

This book is a retelling of the Sleeping Beauty fairytale. I believe it’s one of the first CBA (Christian Booksellers Association) fairytale books. While the…

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Recently Read by Rachel: Review 1

Rachel Kent

Blogger: Rachel Kent

Location: Books & Such main office, Santa Rosa, Calif.

This week I’m going to give you a book review each day about YA books and books for younger readers that I’ve read recently. That way we can all talk…

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Trendspotting: Kids & Digital Reading

Janet Grant

Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant

Location: Books & Such main office, Santa Rosa, Calif.

I recently read the results of a survey Scholastic conducted regarding kids and their reading habits in our increasingly digital age. I found lots of fascinating insight about the…

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Favorite Five: Children’s Books

Wendy Lawton

Blogger:  Wendy Lawton

Location: Books & Such Central Valley Office

Last time I blogged I promised you, dear readers, that for just this once I would refrain from blogging about gruesome realities like Career Killers, Kisses of Death, QueryFails or Worst Case Scenarios. I…

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