Gabrielle Bondi

Co-Founder

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Gabrielle founded The Young Folks in 2010 with Luciana Villalba. Since then, she has served as editor-in-chief and oversees the staff and editorial content on The Young Folks. She recently graduated from Northwestern University and is now working on her master's degree at the Medill School of Journalism.

Books to Movies: Which of Your Favorite YA Reads Might/Will Hit the Big Screen?

  Hollywood is gobbling up movie rights to almost every best-selling Young Adult novel to hit book stands in the past few years. Can you blame them? Every studio is looking for the new Harry Potter, Twilight and now Hunger…

This Month in Film: October New Releases

October brings a nice mix of movies.  It also brings a TON of them. You can’t say that you don’t have options every weekend this month. We, of course, have the horror films that lead up to Halloween. We get…

Book Review: ‘Mystic City’ by Theo Lawrence

I love going into a book with no expectations. I think that’s when you can truly objectively assess whether a book is good or not. For Mystic City, I went into it blind. I didn’t read what it’s about or…

Gaby’s Movie Review: ’10 Years’

Whether you like it or not, 2012 has been Channing Tatum’s year. He surprised audiences with his performances in 21 Jump Street and Magic Mike. So, it’s kind of surprising that his latest film is flying under the radar. I…

Cover Reveal: OPAL (Lux Novel #3) by Jennifer L. Armentrout!

Official Summary:  No one is like Daemon Black. When he set out to prove his feelings for me, he wasn’t fooling around. Doubting him isn’t something I’ll do again, and now that we’ve made it through the rough patches, well……

Audiobook Review: ‘Burn for Burn’ by Jenny Han & Siobhan Vivian

Revenge plots are precarious. Typically, I don’t find vengefulness a welcoming attribute in a character, even when warranted. In Jenny Han and Siobhan Vivian’s new book, Burn for Burn, we have three lead characters pursuing vengeance. So why would I…

Interview: Michael Peña & Director David Ayer Talk ‘End of Watch’

Growing up in a blue-collar neighborhood in Chicago, I was surrounded by people who were police officers, firemen, etc. But the thing was… I hardly ever saw them on-duty, or even in uniform. To me, they were hard-working people, just…