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| Big Blue Marble Bookstore YA Newsletter |
January 18, 2013 | |
 Greetings!
Contents and other thoughts:
1) What makes a book a young adult book? What makes it a regular novel about a teenager? I'm most curious to hear people's reactions next week to reading Among Others, and whether it raised this question for you or not.
2) Selections through April below!
3) Also below are new lists of the Big Blue Marble's best-selling YA books, both for the past year and since 2005! To see our overall bestseller lists, check out our blog.
4) Calendars in the store are now 25% off.
Wishing you a happy and healthy new year!
Jen |
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JANUARY
Thursday, January 24, 2013
7:00 pm
Among Others by Jo Walton
 Among Others is fascinating to me -- for one thing, it's not marketed as a young adult book, but it's about a teenager who's shipped off to boarding school by a father she barely knows, it's written in diary form, and it contains magic. For another, it's an excellent tribute to other books and authors. Mori reads multiple books a day (and takes life lessons from them), and her references and critiques offer a must-read list of science fiction and fantasy classics. We've already started carrying some of the books as a result of reader orders! Also, we've recently learned that the author will be one of the guests of honor at Wiscon (the world's leading feminist science fiction convention) this year! |
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FEBRUARY
Thursday, February 28, 2013
7:00 pm
Code Talker by Joseph Bruchac
 The United States is at war, and sixteen-year-old Ned Begay wants to join the cause - especially when he hears that Navajos are being specifically recruited by the Marine Corps. So he claims he's old enough to enlist, breezes his way through boot camp, and suddenly finds himself involved in a top-secret task, one that's exclusively performed by Navajos. He has become a code talker. Now Ned must brave some of the heaviest fighting of the war, and with his native Navajo language as code, send crucial messages back and forth to aid in the conflict against Japan.
- Penguin Books
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MARCH
Thursday, March 28, 2013
7:00 pm
How to Save a Life by Sara Zarr
Jill MacSweeny just wishes everything could go back to normal. But ever since her dad died, she's been isolating herself from everyone who wants to support her. When her mom decides to adopt a baby, it feels like she's somehow trying to replace a lost family member with a new one.
Mandy Kalinowski understands what it's like to grow up unwanted -- to be raised by a mother who never intended to have a child. So when Mandy becomes pregnant, one thing she's sure of is that she wants a better life for her baby. It's harder to be sure of herself. Will she ever find someone to care for her, too?
As their worlds change around them, Jill and Mandy must learn to both let go and hold on, and that nothing is as easy -- or as difficult -- as it seems.
- from indiebound.org |
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APRIL
Thursday, April 25, 2013
7:00 pm
The Inquisitor's Apprentice
by Chris Moriarty
 The day Sacha found out he could see witches was the worst day of his life... Being an Inquisitor is no job for a nice Jewish boy. But when the police learn that Sacha Kessler can see witches, he's apprenticed to the department's star Inquisitor, Maximillian Wolf. Their mission is to stop magical crime. And New York at the beginning of the twentieth century is a magical melting pot where each ethnic group has its own brand of homegrown witchcraft, and magical gangs rule the streets from Hell's Kitchen to Chinatown. - from indiebound.org |
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Young Adult Top Sellers for 2012
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 The Hunger Games
- Suzanne Collins
- Catching Fire - Susanne Collins
- Mockingjay - Susanne Collins
- The Fault in Our Stars - John Green
- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian - Sherman Alexie
- The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
- Ship Breaker - Paolo Bacigalupi
- Seraphina - Rachel Hartman
- City of Bones - Cassandra Clare
- Tangerine - Edward Bloor
- Fever 1793 - Laurie Halse Anderson
- Divergent - Veronica Roth
- Beauty Queens - Libba Bray
- Son - Lois Lowry
- Mexican Whiteboy - Matt de la Pe�a
- The Freedom Maze - Delia Sherman
- 13 Little Blue Envelopes - Maureen Johnson
- Young People's History of the United States - Howard Zinn
- Why We Broke Up - Daniel Handler
- Graceling- Kristin Cashore
- The Giver - Lois Lowry
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Young Adult Top Sellers to Date!
 Once again, two editions of Dairy Queen appear on this list; this year, if the numbers are added together, the book comes in sixth on the list, between The Book Thief and Twilight. Also, the series has new covers, with cow spots.
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Big Blue Young Adult Book Discussion
For adults who read YA and teens who like to talk about books
Please join us on the fourth Thursday of the month (with some exceptions) for the Big Blue Young Adult Book Discussion, led by Jen Sheffield. The young adult genre refers to the books under discussion; readers of all ages are welcome. The books do not have to be big or blue, though that's always nice.
You can purchase the current month's and next month's selections at a 10% discount!
For a list of past selections, check out the Book Clubs page on the Big Blue Marble website.
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