Reading Frenzy YA Edition **Updated**

**Updated** 10/15/11 ~

I'm on a Young Adult reading frenzy right now. I've been wanting to knock out a few YA books in the hopes that I can find some fun new reads for Violet, but alas the ones I've read thus far are in no way appropriate for her, just yet. I'm a little baffled at the YA rating and what is being published as YA, but also really enjoying some great reading and finding new authors.

Read so far ~

Stolen: a letter to my captor  by Lucy Christopher :: WOW, really good, but freaky to think about someone being kidnapped on any level as good.

 

The Sky is Everywhere by Jandy Nelson :: Really, really good, but so much adult material and language.

 

And I finally got around to reading The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate  by Jacqueline Kelly :: I loved it so much I immediately bought our home library a copy. I think we'll start it as our first read-aloud of the new school year. It's SO, so good :)

 

I also just finished The Hunger Games  by Suzanne Collins, not my usual preference in fiction, but very good nevertheless and one that both Violet and Matthias can read. I've already got the second book Catching Fire  on it's way from the library...

 

On my YA stack waiting to be read are ~ (and in no particular order)

 **Midnight Dancers by Regina Doman (Violet loved this one!) :: Wow, really liked this one.

A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly (historical fiction)

**By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead by Julie Ann Peters (okay, so don't have much hope for Violet to read this anytime soon, but it looks really good) :: And yes it was okay, but not super...

**Fixing Delilah by Sarah Ockler :: Meh! This one had real promise and I did enjoy the writing style, but it just kind of flopped at the end.

Amy & Roger's Epic Detour by Morgan Matson

Sea by Heidi R. Kling (hope this one is a good as it sounds, awesome cover)

Inside Out by Maria V. Snyder (another sci-fi genre, we'll see...)

**Freefall by Mindi Scott (Goodreads notes here)

**Split by Swati Avashti (brief Goodreads notes here)

**The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer  by Michelle Hodkin (Another Meh. If you read the first and second review on goodreads about this book it's pretty much how I felt about it, too bad.)

I've got more coming from the library, but this should keep me busy well into September, and October and November... don't cha think?? Have you read any of these titles?? Love to hear about them and what you thought!

Comments

[Carmen]

I read the entire Hunger Games trilogy and they were very good even if I was a little weary of the never-ending violence by the end. We also started listening to Calpurnia Tate, but the audio wasn't very good in the car. So, I will also do this onoe as a read aloud.

[meredith]

Well, Violet is almost finished with the first one too, LOL! You will LOVE Calpurnia :)

[amy]

Oh my, thanks for posting this! I saw The Hunger Games at my library and for some reason assumed it was "The Crying Game" from back in the 80's or 90's, very inappropriate from what my mother told me! We still love the Redwall books and "Persephone" willingly reads things off the lists from homeschool catalogs, thankfully! She's so busy sewing all the time that reading takes a back seat though. :)

[meredith]

Youre welcome Amy, great to *see* you here :) And yes, it is definately different than the Crying Game ;-)

The sewing sounds great!!

Love Meredith

[Elisa]

I love the Regina Doman books...although..they're even a bit too scary for me! Midnight Dancers was scariest for me, lol, I'm such a chicken.

[meredith]

Well, Im just about to start Midnight Dancers, so Ill let you know. I really like her writing style :) We just got a notice from our interlibrary loan that Waking Rose is ready to be picked up, Violet let out a squee, when I told her, lol!!

 

Blessings,

Meredith

[Carmen]

Meredith, I've just set Luke up on Goodreads today. He's going to use it to keep track of his reading and he'll be doing book reviews in lieu of traditional book reports. I was wondering if Violet might want to be his friend?