Skip to content

MAGAZINE

you start here

MAGAZINE
Primary Menu
  • About
  • Niv Reads
  • Lit
    • Lit Fiction
    • Lit Poetry
    • Lit Creative Nonfiction
    • Lit Stage & Screen
    • Lit Art & Song
    • Lit Tips & Interviews
    • Lit Germs
  • Love
    • Love Love
    • Love Body
    • Love Nature
    • Love Books
    • Love Music
    • Love Screen & Stage
    • Love Germs
  • Life
    • Social Life
    • Personal Life
    • School Life
    • World Life
    • Safe Life
    • Sex Life
    • Life Germs
  • Style
  • Bright Places
    • Wander
    • Be Lovely
    • The Truth About
    • How To
    • Dear Me
  • Before I Die…
  • Resources
  • Submit
  • SDS

Tag: literature

I Have Lost My Way by Gayle Forman: Three Important and Heartbreaking Teen Perspectives

Posted on May 11, 2018May 11, 2018 by Joshua Flores

Three teenagers, three very different stories. In Gayle Forman’s latest release, I Have Lost My Way, three teenagers navigate the complications of first love, the tragedy of life, and the odd coincidences that bring us all together. With a tragic yet hopeful story about family, loss, and friendship, I Have Lost My Way speaks to […]

Continue Reading

Call Me By Your Name: The Novel Behind One of the Year’s Most Talked About Films

Posted on Jan 15, 2018Jan 15, 2018 by Joshua Flores

“We had the stars, you and I. And that is only given once.” —André Aciman The last thing Elio expects during his summer in Italy is to fall in love, especially with one of his father’s many students that visit each year. The inspiration for one of 2017’s most beautiful and impactful love stories, Call Me […]

Continue Reading

A Map for Wrecked Girls: Escape Is Unlikely, Death Is Probable

Posted on Oct 6, 2017Dec 4, 2017 by Joshua Flores

First there were four, and now there are three. Three teenagers, Emma, Henri, and Alex, are all stranded on a deserted island that has no clean source of water, no substantial source of food, and, as the three have concluded, no plausible way to get rescued from the tropical dungeon. With their pasts still haunting […]

Continue Reading

The One Memory of Flora Banks: One of the Year’s Best

Posted on Jun 16, 2017Jul 18, 2017 by Joshua Flores

Flora’s memories reside on her own skin and on the surface of post-it notes rather than in her own mind. In The One Memory of Flora Banks, Emily Barr weaves together a story about the significance of memory, the healing touch of love, and the danger of one’s own mind. Told with intrigue, romance, and heartbreaking […]

Continue Reading

The Dead Inside: Finding Hope in the Darkest of Times

Posted on Jun 14, 2017Jul 5, 2017 by Joshua Flores

The Dead Inside by Cyndy Etler details the true story of a girl who’s striving to escape the confines of her abusive home and Straight, Inc., a company that secretly manipulates children and teens into submission. In this heartbreaking and raw story about the dismal aspects of adolescence and the difficulty of surpassing the past, Etler […]

Continue Reading

You’re Welcome, Universe: Paint Your Own Story

Posted on Mar 31, 2017Apr 18, 2017 by Joshua Flores

Julia is anything but your typical teenage girl. She is rebellious, edgy, and, on top of it all, she is also deaf. In Whitney Gardner’s You’re Welcome, Universe, Julia’s struggle to find her place in the world is on full display. With plenty of humor, honesty, and insight into the life of a deaf teen, […]

Continue Reading

Goodbye Days: An Exploration of Guilt and the Meaning of Friendship

Posted on Mar 23, 2017Apr 10, 2017 by Joshua Flores

Who knew a single text could change a person’s entire life? Carver sure didn’t. In Jeff Zentner’s latest release, Goodbye Days, the effects of grief and the burden of guilt are explored. Told with plenty of humor, a cast of loveable and honest main characters, and narration that will break your heart, Goodbye Days is […]

Continue Reading

Jennifer Niven: Beyond Her YA Novels

Posted on Feb 13, 2017Mar 8, 2017 by Germ Magazine guest author

  There are numerous authors who are innovating the world of Young Adult Literature. They are challenging often hushed topics within the YA world head on with such gusto, it’s inspiring. They’re addressing mental health and other topics that seem to get glazed over, and they’re addressing them with realness. Whilst some of these authors, […]

Continue Reading

The X-Files Is Back with a YA Spin

Posted on Feb 6, 2017Mar 8, 2017 by Joshua Flores

Audiences fell in love with Fox Mulder on the classic television series The X-Files, but he is back and better than ever before; only now, readers get to be introduced to him as a teenager. The X-Files Origins: Agent of Chaos, released on January 3rd, is a YA novel that any lover of the supernatural is […]

Continue Reading

Posts navigation

Older post:
Copyright All rights reserved | Theme: Advance Blog by WPinterface.