Teen Board
These are the blogs that are written by the Teenreads.com Teen Board. Read what other teens think about YA books and reading! Do you agree?
Six of our Teen Board have agreed to participate in the YALSA 2013 Hub Challenge, which started on February 3rd and will end June 22nd. In order to complete the challenge, each member must read 25 books each (those who want to “conquer” the challenge must read all 83!) and participate in the weekly Saturday update on YALSA. In addition, our Teen Board members will check in every Wednesday to let you all know how they are doing. Sign up for the challenge and follow along!
In this sixth check-in, a few of our Teen Board members admit to some trouble getting through the amount of books they'd planned.
We recently asked our Teen Board to tell us their favorite book quotations. You probably have one yourself --- you read an excellent book and a line just sticks with you. You may not know why (and maybe not even care), but there it is, in the back of your mind, on the tip of your tongue or on the back of your eyelids. It speaks to you in some way, and that's all that matters. Maybe you even recite it during the perfect moment, and you smile to yourself because it's your own inside joke.
Let's see which quotations stood out to a few members of the Teen Board.
Our Teen Board has only been on the job for a month, but they are starting to get things moving. Six of the 23 have agreed to participate in the YALSA 2013 Hub Challenge, which started on February 3rd and will end June 22nd. In order to complete the challenge, each member must read 25 books each (those who want to “conquer” the challenge must read all 83!) and participate in the weekly Saturday update on YALSA. In addition, our Teen Board members will check in every Wednesday to let you all know how they are doing. Sign up for the challenge and follow along!
In this fifth check-in, a few of our Teen Board members update us on their progress.
Our Teen Board has only been on the job for a month, but they are starting to get things moving. Six of the 23 have agreed to participate in the YALSA 2013 Hub Challenge, which started on February 3rd and will end June 22nd. In order to complete the challenge, each member must read 25 books each (those who want to “conquer” the challenge must read all 83!) and participate in the weekly Saturday update on YALSA. In addition, our Teen Board members will check in every Wednesday to let you all know how they are doing. Sign up for the challenge and follow along!
In this fourth check-in, a few of our Teen Board members update us on their progress.
I live in rural Massachusetts, which is not always the easiest place for a bookworm to be. Luckily, reading fuels the imagination, so I have been able to come up with some ideas for quenching my book cravings.
During a discussion starting at lunch and ending much later, my friends and I noticed a strange thing. We had been discussing the Harry Potter series and many of our favorite characters were the minor or side characters (Minerva McGonagall for me.) The problem, we realized, was that the main character Harry was likeable but fell flat when compared to the whimsical Luna, acerbic Snape or the hilarious Fred and George Weasley. Herein lays the problem with main characters: while trying to create a protagonist to whom everyone can relate to, the author sometimes turns them into an “average Joe/Jane” that becomes more of a plot device than a character.
Six of our Teen Board members have agreed to participate in the YALSA 2013 Hub Challenge, which started on February 3rd and will end June 22nd. In order to complete the challenge, each member must read 25 books each (those who want to “conquer” the challenge must read all 83!) and participate in the weekly Saturday update on YALSA. In addition, our Teen Board members will check in every Wednesday to let you all know how they are doing. Sign up for the challenge and follow along!
Lately, I’ve been seeing a lot of young adult books that are based off of classic tales. I love these types of books for so many different reasons, but the biggest reason is that many of the authors who write these books choose to add a dark, sinister twist to these old classics. Not only does this add some excitement to these books, it is also bound to thrill teen readers across the country! Below are examples of some of the books I love…and ones I think you’ll love too!
Cliffhangers: the most despicable way to end a novel. Just as you thought you had it all figured out, there’s a twist and you are hopeless, left to fend for yourself. “What is going to happen?” “I need to know!!!” Well friends, Teen Board member Omar F. has something to say: Cliffhangers are awesome! In this blog post, he defends what others may consider the worst ending to a story and explains why they are actually the best.
Six of our Teen Board members have agreed to participate in the YALSA 2013 Hub Challenge, which started on February 3rd and will end June 22nd.
