Teen TV Madness: The Max, Division Semi-Finals
Welpz, y'all. It might be time to rebrand The Max as Bracket Killer, because DIZANG -- not a single participant in the official FYA pool, writer or reader, picked this exact configuration for the...
View ArticleThe 100 1x1: Pilot
The CW’s latest show (based on Kass Morgan’s The 100) takes place 97 years in our future. What remains of the human species lives in a dilapidated space station in Earth orbit, having fled after...
View ArticleCover Reveal: Eternal Night
Exciting news, y'all. Paper Lantern Lit is launching a new, digital imprint called The Studio, and all of its titles are specially curated by PLL's cofounders, FYA fave Lauren Oliver and award winning...
View ArticleHey, Would You Be My Dead Friend for Five Minutes?
Please join us in welcoming back Hannah Gómez! Hannah likes paper dolls, potato chips, and 90s series fiction for girls. She will generally order a whiskey sour, but if she's feeling saucy, she'll go...
View ArticleThe Vampire Diaries 5x16: While You Were Sleeping
Previously on The Vampire Diaries! Katherine died, y’all! And I completely missed it! I guess I forgot that she was human again after being forced out of Elena’s vampire body, and so when the big...
View ArticleIntroducing Megan McCafferty’s Ask! Authors! Anything!
Oh yeah, we’re doing it junior high newspaper style. Who? Megan McCafferty, Sarah Dessen and Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls at the Party. What? Ask! Authors! Anything! A web series devoted to “Famous...
View ArticlePretty Little Liars 4B: Best In Show
Ah, Season 4B—we miss you already. From spending a weekend at Murder Cabin, to hallucinating in glamorous black and white, to hiding piles of cash in foodstuff containers all around Rosewood, we have...
View ArticleProcrastination Pro-Tips: Quidditch, Mazes, Sailor Moon and More!
Wow, this was a loooong week. Maybe I was just so emotionally exhausted from all the feelings I felt last weekend watching the Veronica Mars movie on the big screen? Just a theory! Definitely...
View ArticleReign 1x15: The Darkness
Previously on Reign: Olivia has rabies? Lola is knocked up and unwed. And King Henry likes it up against the window ledge. Every week gets even crazier, doesn’t it? The French Court must be...
View ArticleTeen TV Madness: Semi-Finals Results
Hey gang! So … there were definitely some surprises/upsets this past week, particularly in The Bronze and Peach Pit brackets. In the Bronze bracket, Sabrina the Teenage Witch beat Dance Academy—the...
View ArticleCut Ties With All The Lies That You’ve Been Living In
BOOK REPORT for The Edge of Falling by Rebecca Serle Cover Story: Appropriate Fashion BFF Charm: Let Me Love You Swoonworthy Scale: 6 Talky Talk: 2 Legit 2 Quit Bonus Factors: Being Rich, Mysterious...
View ArticleTeen TV Madness: The Bronze, Division Finals
We’ve reached our fourth week of Teen TV Madness and we’re down to our Elite Eight. (Although, maybe not all of the participants are deserving of the “elite” moniker, in my humble opinion.) But this...
View ArticleAstrid’s Deviled Eggs
In honor of FYABC’s March pick, Ask the Passengers by A.S. King, I wanted to pay homage to Astrid’s after-school job at a catering company. Astrid spends hours upon hours deveining shrimp, with the...
View ArticleBoil My Bunny While You’re At It
BOOK REPORT for Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn Cover Story: On Her Way Out BFF Charm: Hell No Swoonworthy Scale: 0 Talky Talk: Cuts Like a Knife Bonus Factor: Celebrity Childhood Relationship Status:...
View ArticleTeen TV Madness: The Peach Pit, Division Finals
I opened this web editor, poised to tell you that it would be hard to decide between Dawson's Creek and Freaks and Geeks. I had my favorite episode of Dawson's Creek all picked out (S03E23, True Love,...
View ArticleStar-Crossed 1x6: Stabbed with a White Wench’s Black Eye
Previously, on Star-Crossed: Emery stands up to some Red Hawk bikers, and Drake and Taylor—bow-chicka-wow-wow—hook up in a restaurant bathroom. Thank you, Star-Crossed writers, for making this episode...
View ArticleYA Movie News Roundup: John Green’s PAPER TOWNS Will Be A Movie
Welcome back to the YA Movie News Roundup, where we have a whole lotta fantasy happening. But first! A little bit of reality. John Green's Paper Towns will be a Fox 2000 film, using much of the same...
View ArticleNo Afterlife Without Wife
BOOK REPORT for The Undertaking of Lily Chen by Danica Novgorodoff Cover Story: Spooktastic BFF Charm: Eventually and Yay Swoonworthy Scale: 3ish? Talky Talk: Sparse Arty Art: Old School Meets New...
View ArticleThe GILMORE GIRLS Rewatch Project: Well Helloooo, Season 6 Jess
Follow along the whole rewatch here! Last week, on Gilmore Girls... Okay, FINALLY, we have reached the last two episodes I have to recap of Lorelai and Rory's estrangement. I hate hate HATE when these...
View ArticleTeen TV Madness: Luke’s Diner, Division Finals
Ladies and Brian, we have reached the final round of the Luke's Diner bracket, which means a battle line has been drawn. After this vote, hearts will be broken, and friendships may be ruined. This is...
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