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It's YA lucky day! It's Teen Thursday! Where we bring you YA news from around the globe and highlights from the BookPeople Teen Press Corps! Texas Teen Book Festival News! It was a big announcement week for the #TTBF14 - the full schedule and author roster was released! We are so excited to see that … Continue reading Teen Thursday
Good news for fans looking forward to the film production of Lois Lowry's The Giver; The Washington Post reports Lowry has given the film adaptation of her classic dystopian novel the thumbs up. “The movie made much more complex the character of the Chief Elder,” the head of the society, Lowry says. “And then once they cast Meryl Streep … Continue reading Lois Lowry Gives ‘The Giver’ The Thumbs Up
It's YA lucky day! It's Teen Thursday! Where we bring you YA news from around the globe and highlights from the BookPeople Teen Press Corps! August Buzz Book: The Kiss of Deception by Mary E. Pearson WHAT THE TEEN PRESS CORPS IS SAYING: "I enjoyed reading this novel immensely. It reminded me a lot of … Continue reading Teen Thursday
It's YA lucky day! It's Teen Thursday! Where we bring you YA news from around the globe and highlights from the BookPeople Teen Press Corps! Texas Teen Book Fest News! There have been a lot of announcements from the fest in the past few weeks. Many amazing authors have joined the line up, so here … Continue reading Teen Thursday
The first official trailer came out today for the high anticipated adaptation of Lois Lowry's bestselling, dystopian before-it-was-cool, young adult hit, The Giver. With a cast full of heavy-hitting stars (Meryl Streep, Katie Holmes, Jeff Bridges), we can't wait to see more. What do you think? Will you see the movie when it hits theaters … Continue reading Official Trailer for THE GIVER
All the Book Deals: B.J. Novak is now venturing into the fun world of children's literature. A Book With No Pictures, part of a two book deal from Penguin Young Readers Group, comes on the heels of his debut adult collectipn, One More Thing: Stories & Other Stories coming out on 2/4 that was also part of a two book deal … Continue reading This Week In the World of Books
With Lois Lowry visiting the store in just a few days (Monday, October 15 at 6pm) to speak about and sign her new novel Son, our booksellers have been talking about their favorite Lowry books and what her work has meant to them over the years. Merrilee: "I only read Lowry as an adult. The Giver came … Continue reading Bookseller Love for Lois Lowry
~post by Consuelo After reading The Giver about a month ago, I moved on to a completely different book but couldn’t make it past 100 pages. I stopped because of no fault of the book itself, which would have been great at any other moment, but because it just wasn’t Lois Lowry. I still wanted … Continue reading Coming Full Circle with Lois Lowry
~post by Consuelo Confession: I did not read The Giver when I was a kid. Somehow, the endless amounts of Baby-Sitter’s Club and Boxcar Children books that were available in the books section of my small-town video store in the early ‘90’s kept me satisfied. And even as an adult, although I knew it was … Continue reading THE GIVER: A Wake Up Call for the Soul
