Erica Silverman was abducted at the age of four. She was snatched outside of her kindergarten and never seen again. Violet was adopted by her con artist father for a single purpose: to become the long-lost heiress of the mythical…
Interview with Ally Carter
I had the pleasure of speaking with author Ally Carter while she was at the International Spy Museum in Washington D.C. We chatted about All Fall Down and the Embassy Row series, what Ally liked to read when she was…
Read of the Week: ‘Blonde Ops’ by Charlotte Bennardo and Natalie Zaman
Pitched as The Devil Wears Prada meets James Bond for teens, featuring a fashion magazine intern in Rome who uncovers a plot to kidnap the First Lady. Expelled from yet another boarding school for hacking, sixteen-year-old Rebecca “Bec” Jackson is shipped off…
5 Reasons Why It’s Worth it for Lionsgate and Elizabeth Banks to Take A Risk with ‘Heist Society’
Movies based on Young Adult books are all the rage right now. Just this year in 2014, there’s Divergent, The Fault in Our Stars, If I Stay, and The Maze Runner. However, despite the huge success of movies like The…
Read of the Week: The Rules for Disappearing by Ashley Elston
She’s been six different people in six different places: Madeline in Ohio, Isabelle in Missouri, Olivia in Kentucky . . . But now that she’s been transplanted to rural Louisiana, she has decided that this fake identity will be her…
Book Review: ‘Life After Theft’ by Aprilynne Pike
Life After Theft started out with a bit of confusion. Taking a look at the clever title, cover, summary and the little marketing surrounding it, I had the impression that it would be a fun, paranormal read, much like Ally…