A list of all the 2015 award winners follows: John Newbery Medal for the most outstanding contribution to children’s literature: “The Crossover,” written by Kwame Alexander, is the 2015 Newbery Medal winner. The book is published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt…. Read More ›
I loved THE DUFF. It was one of those books that kept me up reading way too late. One that had me crying at the end. One that sticks with me. When I heard there was going to be a… Read More ›
Darcy Patel has put college and everything else on hold to publish her teen novel, Afterworlds. Arriving in New York with no apartment or friends she wonders whether she’s made the right decision until she falls in with a crowd… Read More ›
This is one of my all-time favorite books. How many of your have read it? If you haven’t, go and get it right now. I’m not a big REreader, but this one I have definitely read more than once. Here… Read More ›
Each year the Nerdy Book Club reads thousands of books. Some of those books are okay. Some of those books are good. And, some of those books are GREAT. The Nerdy Book Club Awards was established to highlight some of… Read More ›
GRASSHOPPER JUNGLE by Andrew Smith Sixteen-year-old Austin Szerba interweaves the story of his Polish legacy with the story of how he and his best friend , Robby, brought about the end of humanity and the rise of an army of… Read More ›
Jude and her twin brother, Noah, are incredibly close. At thirteen, isolated Noah draws constantly and is falling in love with the charismatic boy next door, while daredevil Jude cliff-dives and wears red-red lipstick and does the talking for both… Read More ›
This puppet may not be a real boy… but he just might be a real hero! When bloodthirsty monsters invade Pinocchio’s hometown and kill his father, Geppetto, Pinocchio discovers a new benefit to his magical nose: telling lies produces a… Read More ›
Tana lives in a world where walled cities called Coldtowns exist. In them, quarantined monsters and humans mingle in a decadently bloody mix of predator and prey. The only problem is, once you pass through Coldtown’s gates, you can never… Read More ›