YA Highway: Archive

HEY BOOKISH FRIENDS

Want to help us with a post for next week? We’ll be doing a series about conferences, and we want to know:

What are your best conference tips?

Reblog, message us, email (yahighway at gmail), tweet, whatever. Include your name and link and we will happily give credit!

May 25, 20121 note

#conferences #help! #lit

Your second extra Mara Dyer scene awaits.

michellehodkin:

On my blog, as promised. It’s Noah’s POV of his and Mara’s first meeting from The Unbecoming. Hope you enjoy it!

May 24, 201221 notes

#michelle hodkin #mara dyer

The moment when Harry takes Draco's wand

J. K. Rowling: I said to Arthur, my American editor - we had an interesting conversation during the editing of seven - the moment when Harry takes Draco's wand, Arthur said, God, that's the moment when the ownership of the Elder wand is actually transferred? And I said, that's right. He said, shouldn't that be a bit more dramatic? And I said, no, not at all, the reverse. I said to Arthur, I think it really puts the elaborate, grandiose plans of Dumbledore and Voldemort in their place. That actually the history of the wizarding world hinged on two teenage boys wrestling with each other. They weren't even using magic. It became an ugly little corner tussle for the possession of wands. And I really liked that - that very human moment, as opposed to these two wizards who were twitching strings and manipulating and implanting information and husbanding information and guarding information, you know? Ultimately it just came down to that, a little scuffle and fistfight in the corner and pulling a wand away.
Melissa Anelli: It says a lot about the world at large, I think, about conflict in the world, it's these little things -
J. K. Rowing: And the difference one individual can make. Always, the difference one individual can make.

May 24, 201234,450 notes

#harry potter #j k rowling

Play

May 24, 20122 notes

#kody keplinger #young adult #a midsummer's nightmare

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The Top 10 Tear-jerkers of all Time

The Fault In Our Stars - John Green

Before I Die - Jenny Downham

If I Stay - Gayle Forman

other YA additions?

scribnerbooks:

1. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

2. The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks

3. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

4. Dr. Zhivago by Boris Pasternak

5. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

6. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

7. My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult

8. The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough

9. Charlotte’s Web by E B White

10. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

(via The Sacramento Bee)

What titles would you add?

May 24, 201272 notes

#young adult #tear jerkers

Pssst!

rachelfershleiser:

This is a secret pre-announcement that you are invited to Tumblr’s party at Book Expo America. 6/6 at 7pm at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe with free drinks and three writers I adore. You’re excited! Trust.

May 23, 201218 notes

#BEA #book expo america #housing works

taherehmafi:

i really hate how life gets in the way of all the things i need to reblog.

WORD.

May 23, 201210 notes

#truthiness

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bookavore:

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May 23, 2012171 notes

Listen

Cee-Lo is our jam for this week’s Road Trip Wednesday: What faction from Veronica Roth’s DIVERGENT and INSURGENT are you? Answer on your blog and leave a link in comments here. Then check out what everyone else had to say!

And don’t forget that Veronica Roth will be answering your questions in a live chat at YAHighway.com next Tuesday, May 29!

May 23, 20121 note

#Road Trip Wednesday #YA Highway #Veronica Roth #Divergent #Insurgent #YA #books

May 23, 2012449 notes

“I’d like to share with you some actual questions actual teenagers have actually asked about my new book, and I swear these are true and can produce witnesses if necessary.
“Can you talk about why Quentin survives his encounter with the land whale while Captain Ahab doesn’t survive his encounter with Moby Dick?”
“Is Margo’s hair always in her face because no one is seeing her?”
“Are we really able to reinvent ourselves like Dr. Jefferson Jefferson or are we just boats getting borne back ceaselessly into the past like they say in Gatsby?”
Real questions. Real teenagers. There were hundreds more. And of course there were silly questions, too—do you think margo or lacey is hotter; if you could be any kind of cheese, what kind of cheese would you be? (To the latter, I answered Nicholas Sparks.) Silly questions are great, too. But again and again, I met teenagers who were reading thoughtfully and critically, and I believe that as writers and educators, we have a shared responsibility to give teenagers every opportunity to encounter everything that books can do.” —John Green (x)

May 22, 2012798 notes

#dftba

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May 22, 20129 notes

Our own Kate Hart’s analysis of YA Book Covers and their (lack of) diversity continues to circulate Tumblr!

May 22, 201213 notes

#Kate Hart #YA #Books #Book covers