From the YALSA blog: In short, read these

I've mentioned my fondness for short stories here before, and today I wrote a post for the YALSA blog highlighting some outstanding YA short story collections and an anthologies from 2008: In short, read these. Pretty Monsters is my personal favorite to take a Printz Honor, but that's coming in another post.

Happy reading!

Review-type of Hero-Type

I'm very excited to finally be blogging about YA books for the YALSA blog. The YALSA rules say that I cannot reproduce my entries for them in this blog, so I will provide you with a link to today's entry: Books to watch out for: Hero-Type by Barry Lyga.

"Books to watch out for" will be a regular feature on the YALSA blog. I have a post-it on my desk reminding me to write in at least once a week (on Tuesdays, because nothing ever happens on Tuesdays except Dean Winchester getting a desk dropped on him). Now, what to feature next...