What a great year we had, so long ENG 438 and best wishes to all!

In our last Assignment module for ENG 438, our professor asked us to research issues surrounding the YA literature genre, and what i found was pretty consistent with the feelings i felt towards many books i read this semester.  Teen issues often times are viewed as over-exaggerated by adults and these issues are swept under…

My Summer Reading Plans

My Summer reading plans are much different than anything i have done before during the warm months of the year.  Normally, i would hardly do any reading other than online sports articles on ESPN.com and also Twitter and Facebook.  Since taking this class, however, my inspiration for reading has grown tremendously throughout the semester.  I…

Its not Monday, but I read all week!!

Easter weekend brought more great family memories and time shared with family that I don’t always get to see.  The great thing about seeing my family is that my two youngest cousins had a great number of books they were reading for school and i thought it was the perfect opportunity to read from their personal…

Closer to Monday than usual,…

I was supervising a computer class for one of our teachers on Monday, when I realized all the great books she had in her lab!  I searched through them and I picked two.  Onion John by Joseph Krumgold is a Newberry award winner from the late 1950’s.  The other, Ghosts I Have Been  is written by Richard…

Where I come from as a reader, was not always great.

Reading some of the blog posts, tweets, and reactions of our class, I thoroughly enjoyed this weeks readings from the given texts to all of our responses.  I am gaining more and more respect for the art of reading because of the evidence presented shows a direct correlation to other subjects for one, and standardized…

Its Monday, What are you reading?

Well, I found the book The Serpent King, but decided to read it for our book club instead.  We are really enjoying it so far; the three young characters don’t really seem to have the same characteristics in the first few chapters of the book but as we continue to read, we find that they have more…

YASLA and The HUB

I have been on the ala.org/yalsa site many times to look at the awards that are given to different authors writing.  I really love the great books listed right in front that are ones that I have never come across before.  I want to read a book in our next week that is written by…

Its Monday, what are you reading?

For this week, I simplified my reading a little bit and took a book from the “Read 180” class for my weekly reading.  This book is called “The Good Fight: Stories About Real Heroes” and the reason for choosing this book is I wanted to see what kinds of books students read in this class and…

Is there a problem with YA literature?

The original question I researched this week was simply a prompt in Google, stating  “questions in adolescent literature.”  I did not find many relevant articles for this blog but a related search at the bottom that I clicked on, ” the problem with ya lit.”  This search brought me a couple of very good websites.…

Its Monday, What are you reading?

I am very late getting this post up, spring break is this week at my school, but I have been keeping up on my reading and the rest of my schoolwork.  This week I have read Ender’s Game and S. E. Hinton’s classic novel, The Outsiders.   I have read one Hinton book this semester, Taming the Star Runner, and it…