8 Best Film Music Scores for Studying

Often, I will sit down at my desk and know that it’s crunch time. So I grab the coffee, play my favorite motion picture soundtracks, and buckle in for a long night. Without my Spotify play list of classical music,…

Read of the Week: Maybe One Day by Melissa Kantor

Critically acclaimed author Melissa Kantor masterfully captures the joy of friendship, the agony of loss, and the unique experience of being a teenager in this poignant new novel about a girl grappling with her best friend’s life-threatening illness. Zoe and…

Ally’s Movie Review: The Book Thief

Due to powerful performances and beautiful imagery, a film destined to studio crafted mediocrity climbs above to a sweet, emotional experience. Based on the international best-selling novel by author Markus Zusak, The Book Thief tells the story of a spirited…

Film News: ‘The Book Thief’ Gets Its Cast!

The Book Thief has become one of those staple YA books that people make you feel bad for not reading yet. (Okay, OKAY, I will read it!) The movie adaptation, which has been in the works for a couple years now,…

Books to Movies: Which of Your Favorite YA Reads Might/Will Hit the Big Screen?

  Hollywood is gobbling up movie rights to almost every best-selling Young Adult novel to hit book stands in the past few years. Can you blame them? Every studio is looking for the new Harry Potter, Twilight and now Hunger…