Steven Gould’s Jumper series is awesome. I have read and loved all his books so far, which is – sadly – pretty easy to do because he’s only written nine novels and maybe twice as many short stories. So you can become an authority on Gould without years of reading. I wish he would write […]
Archive for the ‘Juvenile’ Category
IMPULSE by Steven Gould
January 30, 2013THE SORCERER OF THE NORTH by John Flanagan
December 31, 2012My wife and fifteen year old love John Flanagan’s The Ranger’s Apprentice series. We’ve been listening to the audiobooks for a few years now, always when we’re on long trips so we can get a whole book in. This Thanksgiving we got away for a few days, and we listened to The Sorcerer of the […]
ALLANON’S QUEST by Terry Brooks
August 27, 2012I couldn’t resist the allure of a 99-cent Terry Brooks story for my iPad. Bought it and read it almost in one move. Overall, I think it was money well-spent. For 99 cents, I was transported to another world and took up a quest with Allanon, Brook’s fabled druid. That environment came alive around me […]
HAWKEYE #1 by Matt Fraction and David Aja
August 7, 2012It looks like Jeremy Renner’s portrayal of Hawkeye has been on target, so to speak. Enough so that the valiant archer has garnered some serious street cred from Marvel Comics, because they appear to be pulling out all the stops to get Hawkeye increased public awareness. The new series promises to spend more time on […]
CAP KENNEDY: GALAXY OF THE LOST by E. C. Tubb
July 11, 2012Galaxy of the Lost first came out in the 1970s. I bought a copy because the cover reminded me of the Doc Savage books I was still reading, which the cover was supposed to do. But I never got around to reading it. The book is somewhere in a box, packed away for the day […]
RAT LIFE by Tedd Arnold
July 2, 2012Rat Life is pretty much billed as a mystery novel for teens, but I’d call it more of a coming of age tale. This is a harsher, bleaker story than I’d recommend for a lot of tens, though, and there’s some historical references in it that I think a lot of kids today would struggle […]
THE DROWNED CITIES by Paolo Bacigalupi
May 11, 2012I love Paolo Bacigalupi’s novels, especially his YA stuff. His books are written with a real sense of adventure and wonder. His characters don’t just struggle with problems, they live and breathe in a world that seems just right around the corner if things go badly. Kids are probably drawn to the post-apocalyptic feel of […]
RIP TIDE by Kat Falls
May 10, 2012Rip Tide is the second book in Kat Falls’s action-packed science fiction young adult series. I’d been blown away by her first book, Dark Life, and my son had been too. My expectations for this second book were high, and I was afraid that I’d been expecting too much. But that was a needless worry. […]
SLEUTH OR DARE by Kim Harrington
May 5, 2012Sleuth or Dare is the first novel of a new middle grader mystery series featuring two young girl protagonists. Norah and Darcy are two best friends, but they couldn’t be more different. Norah tells the story in this first book, and she’s bookish and into all things astronomy. Darcy is deliberately different, a free spirit […]
