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.

Book News: The New J.K. Rowling? Oxford student lands six-figure book deal

An interesting bit of publishing news has been getting around today. That’s no surprise when a debut author is being called “the next J.K. Rowling” and lands a six-figure book deal with the same people who published the uber-successful Harry…

Book Review: ‘Insurgent,’ Book 2 in Veronica Roth’s Divergent Trilogy

Note: This is a spoiler-free review. However, if you haven’t read the first book, Divergent, stay away! Insurgent is one of the hottest and most anticipated releases to come out this year. After her first novel, Divergent, debuted last year,…

Book Review: ‘Article 5’ by Kristen Simmons

Article 5 was one of a few new books I bought at the RT Booklovers Convention, a couple weeks ago. A friend had told me about it, and I was intrigued by its premise. On a whim, I bought the…

Film News: ‘Hunger Games’ & ‘Bridesmaids’ lead the 2012 MTV Movie Awards Nominations!

MTV recently announced that instead of having the public vote for the MTV Movie Awards nominees, they decided to create an “academy” of industry professionals to determine who should be honored with nominations. Obviously, they were tired of being called…

Book Review: ‘The Book of Blood and Shadow’ by Robin Wasserman

Prague is currently a popular setting. Or maybe it has always been and I never noticed? Whatever the case, The Book of Blood and Shadow is the third book in a row I’ve read in the past month that has…

This Month in Film: May New Releases

Tis the season of summer blockbuster films! And to start it off with a bang, we have one of the biggest superhero movies ever hitting the screen. May is a pretty exciting time. While the blockbusters aren’t in full swing…

Film News: Watch the fantastic & epic new trailer for Pixar’s BRAVE!

Pixar unveils another trailer for their upcoming animated film, Brave, and it is fabulous. The previous trailers offered brief glimpses into the world and characters of Brave; however, we’re weren’t given much on the plot. The new trailer satisfies those…