Ok, it’s Emily again with some more GREAT Young Adult picks.
If I Stay is not just one of best YA novels, but one of the best novels PERIOD that I have read in a long while. This is Gayle Foreman’s first YA novel and it just blew me away with its creative style and sophisticated simplicity. Told in increments marked only by specific moments in time, the main character must decide if staying alive, fighting to survive massive damage from a car wreck, is the right thing to do or if she should let her body die. Flashbacks give the reader insight into this gifted girl’s past. If you buy one YA book this spring, this should be it. I can’t do it justice. AMAZING!
If you need more than one book a season, as I so often do, then the Evernight series would be a good one to begin. Evernight is another vampire book, so all you Twilight fans pay attention!!:) Evernight by Claudia Gray is the story of a human whose parents have recently taken teaching jobs at a remote private academy. However, it becomes apparent that most of the students are vampires, the teachers are vampires, and the reader soon finds out that the main character’s parents are vampires! So how does a human, a living and breathing human, end up with hundred year old vampires as parents? Evernight will leave you craving the next book in the series, Stargazer, soon to be released this spring.
And last but certainly not least is Wings by Aprilynne Pike. Laurel was adopted when she was three and always knew she was different. She could only eat fruits and veggies, shampoos only made her hair dirty, and she felt claustrophobic if she wore close fitting clothes. Nothing, however, could prepare her for the flower bloom that appeared on her back or for the knowledge that she is a fairy. Hopefully, the beginning of a marvelous series, Wings is an inventive YA novel. It is so unassuming that you forget such things don’t exist…or do they?
Well, there you have it. Great novels=great fun. Nothing on TV is this good so come to Lemuria TODAY and check out what we have!
Your friendly neighborhood Lemurian, Emily