Holiday Gift Ideas

The best presents to buy this year are books. (Aren't they always?)

So here are a few of our YA recommendations:

• A Certain Slant of Light by Laura Whitcomb
• Airhead by Meg Cabot
• Bliss by Lauren Myracle
• Bras & Broomsticks by Sarah Mlynowski
• The China Garden by Liz Berry
• Impossible By Nancy Werlin
• Graceling by Kristin Cashore
• Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
• Ink Exchange by Melissa Marr
• Keturah and Lord Death by Martine Leavitt
  
• Lock and Key by Sarah Dessen
• Need by Carrie Jones
• Paper Towns by John Green
• The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
• The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart
• Two Girls of Gettysburg by Lisa Klein
• The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
• The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor
• Uglies by Scott Westerfeld

-The YAthenaeum Team

This Week in YA- November 29, 2008

Random things:

• Lauren Myracle is giving away shirts. More information on what to do to get one one her blog.
  
• There are a few NCTE ALAN wrap-ups floating around including Mary E. Pearson's and Cynthia Leitich Smith's.

Books to give as presents for the holidays:

• Shannon Hale's list
  
• E. Lockhart's list.
• If you buy someone a book by Meg Cabot, Meg will send you a book plate you can put inside. More information on her blog.
• We'll have our own list up in the next week.

Movie News:

• Twilight based on the book by Stephenie Meyer opened at #1 with $70.6 million the first weekend.

Books that came out this past week:

• The Parliament of Blood by Justin Richards
• Love is Hell by Scott Westerfeld, Melissa Marr, Justine Larbalestier, and Gabrielle Zevin, Laurie Faria Stolarz
• Lip Gloss Jungle by Melissa De La Cruz
• Lily Dale: Connecting by Wendy Corsi Staub
• Exposed by Susan Vaught
• Crowned by Julie Linker
• Belle: A Retelling of "Beauty and the Beast" by Cameron Dokey
• Lankhmar Book 7: The Knight and Knave of Swords by Fritz Leiber