Welcome to YA Reads

YA Reads is a review site for Young Adult literature. As a Future Librarian, I am keeping this reading log for my Young Adult Services class, to help me understand the huge range of sources available to teens today. I will be reading widely in young adult literature, from romance to sci-fi, historical to hi-lo. I'll also occasionally venture on to magazines, movies and music. Each post will contain a brief summary of the book (no ruining the ending), and evaluative comments that I think might be useful to readers, other librarians, and whoever else might venture through.

Let's talk YA

The criteria I use for evaluation is not scientific by any means. When I'm reading, I look for things like writing style, appeal and content. Mostly I am looking for smart, well written books that I think would connect with teens today (and other readers too! After all, YA is for everyone).  I've rated items from 1-5, one being a really poor resource and five being an excellent one that addresses all the above criteria.

This is an assignment, but its also a blog. So leave comments! Tell me what I should read (or listen to or watch) next! Argue with me about how I undeservedly slammed your favourite YA book, or h

ow I praised something you think is truly awful. Books deserve discussion, so lets start the conversation on the current world of YA.