Keep On Thinking It’s A Time To Fly
BOOK REPORT for Roomies by Sara Zarr and Tara Altebrando Cover Story: Graphic BFF Charm: Yay and Meh Swoonworthy Scale: 6 Talky Talk: 2 Legit 2 Quit Bonus Factors: College Transition, Diversity...
View ArticleMerry Christmas, Y’all!
Hope your holiday is full of champ cans, tasty business and excellent YA!
View ArticleNetflix Fix: Better Off Ted
Title: Better Off Ted (Season 1 and Season 2) Year: 2009-2010 Fix: Workplace Comedy That's Way More Fun Than the Real Thing Netflix Summary: As head of research and development at soulless...
View ArticleIn Defense Of Bella Swan
The next time you’re having drinks with friends, make the bold statement that Bella Swan does not suck and get ready for some fightin’ words. I know there’s a lot of hate out there for Twilight’s...
View ArticleCan We Pretend That Spaceships in the Night Sky Are Like Shooting Stars?
BOOK REPORT for These Broken Stars (Starbound Book 1) by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner Cover Story: My Supernova Fancy Dress Girl BFF Charm: Stuart Smalley, and Eventually Swoonworthy Scale: 5 Talky...
View ArticleDoctor Who: The Time of the Doctor
"And now it's time for one last bow, like all your other selves. Eleven's hour is over now, the clock is striking Twelve's." This past Wednesday—Christmas Day—Whovians the world over were treated to a...
View ArticleProcrastination Pro-Tips: YA Trends, Banned Books and More!
It’s been a slow news week, what with that whole Christmas holiday thing smack dab in the middle of it. Either that or it’s just that I haven’t been around to read the internet, thereby thinking it’s...
View ArticleWe Readers Are the Champions, My Friends
BOOK REPORT for Champion (Legend Book 3) by Marie Lu Cover Story: Kiss from a Rose BFF Charm: Platinum x 2 Swoonworthy Scale: I'm Ron Burgundy? Talky Talk: Action-Packed He Said, She Said Talk Wordy...
View ArticleFYA’s Top Ten Posts of 2013
We took a look back at all of our posts from 2013, and dang, we wrote a lot, y'all! Based on page views, here are the most popular posts of the year, a.k.a. the FYA Homecoming Court. 1. The Gilmore...
View Article(Bad) Boy Meets (Good) Girl
BOOK REPORT for The Promise of Amazing by Robin Constantine Cover Story: Surprisingly Accurate BFF Charm: Meh Swoonworthy Scale: 7 Talky Talk: Easy Breezy Bonus Factors: Bad Boy, Catering Anti-Bonus...
View ArticleHappy New Year, Y’all!
May 2014 be full of good times, great reads and plentiful champ cans. xoxo Team FYA
View ArticleKeep Your Friends Close and Your Dragon Lords Closer
BOOK REPORT for Slayers and Slayers: Friends and Traitors (Slayers 1 and 2) by C.J. Hill Cover Story: Oh, Snap vs. Yeah, We Got This BFF Charm: Eventually Swoonworthy Scale: 7 Talky Talk: Feels...
View ArticleNetflix Fix: Bronies
Title: Bronies: The Extremely Unexpected Adult Fans of My Little Pony Year: 2013 Fix: Documentary About a Baffling Cultural Phenomenon Netflix Summary: Spotlighting a small but singular pop cult, this...
View ArticleProcrastination Pro-Tips: VMars Trailer, Capitol Couture, and More!
Hey everyone! Hope you all had a wonderful New Years! And now that it’s time to get back to work, it’s also time to get back to our computers. So let’s see what the internet had for us this week!...
View ArticleA Highly Scientific Analysis Of The Veronica Mars Trailer
Scientists! We have just received the new trailer for the Veronica Mars movie! And it is a FASCINATING specimen. Please join me in the lab as we conduct a serious investigation into awesomeness. Jamie...
View ArticleKeep Your Eyes Open, Your Ears to the Ground and Your Nose in the Air....
BOOK REPORT for The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp by Kathi Appelt Cover Story: Handpainted Gorgeousness BFF Charm: Yay! Swoonworthy Scale: 0 Talky Talk: Storytelling Narration Courtesy of Morgan...
View ArticleYou Really Don’t Want to Know What’s Behind the Curtain
BOOK REPORT for The Eye of Minds by James Dashner Cover Story: Like Every Other James Dashner Novel Drinking Buddy: This'll Go Straight to My Virtual Liver Testosterone Level: I'm a Real Badass Online...
View ArticleFYA Book Club: 2013 Yearbook
2013 was such a great and exciting year for the FYA Book Club. We were sorted into our FYA houses cliques. We had a cocktail-fueled hangout with a BAMF author. We compared notes on how we imagined...
View ArticleTwice as Nice on Ice
BOOK REPORT for Being Sloane Jacobs by Lauren Morrill Cover Story: Are You Forgetting Someone? BFF Charm: Maybe and Roger Murtaugh Swoonworthy Scale: 3 Talky Talk: She Said, She Said Bonus Factors:...
View ArticleYA Movie News Roundup: THE MAZE RUNNER, FALLEN And More
Welcome back to the YA Movie News Roundup! It's 2014 and that's the year of a bunch of YA movies, which means we should have plenty of scoop 'round these parts! Read an interview with The Maze...
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