Author: Sharyn Vane

FICTION Young Adult 

‘Patron Saints Of Nothing’

June 24, 2019June 24, 2019 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments Patron Saints of Nothing, Randy Ribay, Rodrigo Duterte

A Filipino-American Teen Immersed in Duterte’s Drug Crackdown

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FICTION Young Adult 

‘Let Me Hear A Rhyme’

June 19, 2019 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments Biggie Smalls, Let Me Hear A Rhyme, Malik Shafir, Malik-16, Tiffany D. Jackson

Remembering Non-Hipster Brooklyn in the 90s, and a Hip-Hop Mystery

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FICTION Young Adult 

‘Girl Gone Viral’

June 3, 2019June 2, 2019 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments Arvin Ahmadi, Girl Gone Viral

Ready Player Whatever in a Young-Adult VR Dystopia

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FICTION Young Adult 

The Devil Went Up to Minnesota

May 21, 2019May 21, 2019 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments Jacqueline West, Last Things

In Teen Horror Novel ‘Last Things,’ the Crossroads Reinvented

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FICTION Young Adult 

‘Barely Missing Everything’

April 29, 2019April 30, 2019 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments Barely Missing Everything, Matt Mendez

An Affecting Young-Adult Debut About the Lives of Mexican-American Teens in El Paso

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FICTION Young Adult 

Normal Kid, Hooked on Oxy

April 15, 2019April 19, 2019 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments

‘Heroine,’ a Realistic Novel About a High-Performing Student Athlete With an Opioid Habit

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FICTION Young Adult 

You’re Supposed to be Uncomfortable

March 26, 2019March 22, 2019 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments A.S. King, Dig

The Harsh Truths and Hopeful Teens of A.S. King’s ‘Dig’

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FICTION Young Adult 

‘We Set The Dark On Fire’

March 13, 2019March 13, 2019 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments Tehlor Kay Mejia, We Set The Dark On Fire

It Was Always Burning, Since the World’s Been Turning

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FICTION Young Adult 

‘The Field Guide To The North American Teenager’

February 19, 2019February 22, 2019 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments Ben Philippe, The Field Guide To The North American Teenager

A Canadian Hockey Kid, Trapped in Texas

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FICTION Young Adult 

‘Someday We Will Fly’, by Rachel DeWoskin

February 11, 2019February 11, 2019 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments Judaica, Rachel DeWoskin, Shanghai, Someday We Will Fly

A Meaningful and Sadly-Relevant Story of the Jews Who Escaped to Shanghai During WWII

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CREATORS FICTION Writers Young Adult 

Apocalypse Zhao

February 4, 2019February 3, 2019 Sharyn Vane 3 Comments Amélie Wen Zhao, Blood Heir, Ellen Oh, L.L. McKinney

Pulling ‘Blood Heir’ Before Publication Just Might be OK

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FICTION Young Adult 

Survivors’ Guilt 101

January 16, 2019 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments Courtney Stevens, Four Three Two One

Teen Novel Explores the Aftermath of an Explosion

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FICTION Young Adult 

What’s Eating Those Small-Town Teens?

January 9, 2019January 9, 2019 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments Claire Legrand, Sawkill Girls

In ‘Sawkill Girls’, Terror is Hungry

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FICTION Young Adult 

Breakdancing Badass Muslim-American Girl In Love

December 12, 2018December 12, 2018 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments A Very Large Expanse Of Sea, Tahereh Mafi

Not An Easy Thing To Be In 2002

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FICTION Young Adult 

The Secrets of The Book

December 5, 2018December 5, 2018 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments The Reader, The Speaker, The Storyteller, Traci Chee

Traci Chee’s YA Fantasy Series Comes to an Exciting Close

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