This fall, Penguin Teen has five weeks in a row of major game-changing YA novels hitting the shelves! We’re thrilled to be participating in the Penguin Teen Game-Changers campaign by revealing the second featured book. Releasing on September 19, 2017,…
Guest Post: Renée Ahdieh, author of FLAME IN THE MIST
Renée Ahdieh took the book world by storm with her stunning debut duology, The Wrath and the Dawn and The Rose and the Dagger. Now she’s back with her newest book, Flame in the Mist, and as part of the…
Movie Review: Snatched
Despite casting two talented leads as a dysfunctional mother/daughter duo, Snatched feels incredibly uninspired. The movie fails to rely on the endearing charm of Goldie Hawn or the sporadic and spontaneous humor of Amy Schumer. Instead, it’s held together by…
Movie Review – Whisky Galore!
If Great Britain truly is, as Louis de Bernières describes it, “an immense lunatic asylum” in love with its own eccentricities, one need only look to the Scottish Isle of Todday for proof. Thrown so far out into the Atlantic…
‘Deadly Premonition’ Board Game fully Kickstarted
Gamers, have your coffee ready for this latest news: Deadly Premonition, the cult hit survival horror video game, is coming back for another investigation! Though, it’s not as you think. Instead of returning as a sequel to the 2010 murder mystery, the original…
Melody on Music: Breaking Streaming Records
Editor’s note: From 2012 to 2014, Melody Rice wrote the music column Matt on Music for The Eastern Echo, the student newspaper for Eastern Michigan University. In 2016, Melody relaunched this column on The Young Folks. You can read past installments…
From the Record Crate: The Clash – Combat Rock (1982)
You can’t talk about the birth of the punk movement without discussing The Clash. While they weren’t the first ones on England’s punk scene, they’re the ones with the biggest legacy–they’d have to be, with a nickname like “The Only…