Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
In the end, this is a world replete with loss, and the heroes must suffer their own in a twist that will break the hearts of many readers but stays true to the merciless dystopia that Roth has created.
Two escape ships afflicted with a strange plague and a broken-down AI fly through the wastes of outer space, full of survivors fleeing an attack on their planet. The vampire-human romance that kicked off a paranormal mega-trend gets retold…with a twist. A girl allergic to the outside world is inspired by first love to take a possibly […]
The wait between movie adaptations in a series is almost as difficult as the wait between books, but luckily, Divergent fans can get their literary fix before Allegiant: Part One hits theaters. Four, a beautiful, brand-new paperback addition to Veronica Roth’s bestselling dystopian series, features several prequels and companion stories, all told from the perspective of love interest Tobias, better known as Four. […]
I have a confession to make: I love, love, love The Baby-Sitter’s Club books. And not in the same way everyone loves them: I literally wrote my college-admissions essay on how much I loved the BSC. They were the first books I ever truly fell for, the first books I read over and over again. They were the […]
It’s exhilarating (and a little scary) when our favorite books are made into motion pictures. The idea of seeing a novel that we’ve loved on the big screen is incredibly appealing, but us book nerds always wonder whether the adaptation will live up to their imaginations…which is all part of the fun. A number of books are making […]
It’s a good time to be a Divergent fan: the entire series (including Four) is finally out in paperback, and the first half of Allegiant is about to hit theaters, bringing us more of the ever-wonderful Shailene Woodley. There’s really only one problem—the endless debate over that familiar question: which is better, the books or the movies? And the truth […]