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Six Books to Read if You Loved Black Panther

If you haven’t seen Black Panther yet, stop reading this right now and go buy a ticket. If you have, and you’re craving more African fantasy, more girl inventors, or more badass female warriors, you’ve come to the right place. Black Panther truly had it all–a beautiful African-inspired setting, a power struggle between two princes, an all female army, a thread of social and political commentary, and a shirtless Michael B. Jordan…the list goes on! If you’re feeling the Black Panther-shaped hole in your heart right now, let us fill it with these 6 amazing reads! Wakanda Forever.

Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor

Nnedi Okorafor’s YA fantasy is a modern classic, and its Nigerian setting and story steeped in African lore is everything you need after leaving Wakanda. Akata Witch blends mythology, fantasy, history, and magic into a compelling tale that will keep readers spellbound. Sunny is kind of like Shuri–the kid sister figure that you do not want to mess with. The best part? Its sequel, Akata Warrior, is now available too!

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a magical real mix of high school mean girls and tenderhearted boys. each of yovanoff’s characters shine in the midst of their issues and insecurities. what happens to them is real, lovely, and inspiring...

#places no one knows #brenna yovanoff #waverly and marshall

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Check out this playlist on @8tracks: the god of lies loves you by poldarkk.

#the winner's curse #the winner's trilogy #marie rutkoski #kestrel and arin #soundtrack

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THE GOD OF LIES LOVES YOU | A Winner’s Trilogy fanmix

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1. I Just Want You - Robert Duncan / 2. Eros - Ludovico Einaudi / 3. Flames of Glory - Ivan Torrent / 4. A Sign of Things to Come - Keith Merrill / 5. Something Under Her Skin - Max Richter / 6. Cold - Jorge Méndez / 7. Avalanches - IAMX / 8. Gone - Lucas King / 9. The Curse - Agnes Obel / 10. Nightbook - Ludovico Einaudi / 11. Young and Beautiful (Official Instrumental) - Lana Del Rey / 12. Drifting Apart - Clemens Ruh

#the winner's trilogy #marie rutkoski #arin and kestral #kestrin #the winner's kiss soundtrack

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rutkoski’s third in the winner’s trilogy. winner’s kiss concludes a story of ancient occupation, rebellion, and a love that defies the hate of conquest. beautifully written and full of the emotion that accompanies the pursuit of revenge and redemption. what the roman empire might have looked like mixed with greek myth and the politics of british colonization...

#the winner's kiss #marie rutkoski #the winner's trilogy #arin and kestrel #kestrin

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do you ever wonder how a character is doing after a series is over

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The fear is real.

kaufman and spooner’s second in their broken stars trilogy, shattered is a comfortable mix of both hard and soft sci fi--a synthetically engineered outer space setting, star crossed lovers, and conflict that reeks of old irish terrorism. fans of meyer’s lunar chronicles and joss whedon’s firefly will love this...

#this shattered world #amie kaufman and meagan spooner #broken stars trilogy #flynn and jubilee

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Cinderella

Cinder

What is Hidden

Mechanica

Gilded Ashes

Princess of Glass

The Ugly Stepsister

Sleeping Beauty

Princess of Thorns

Gathering Frost

A Kiss in Time

Kill Me Softly

A Wicked Thing

A Long, Long Sleep

Beauty and the Beast

Beauty

Cruel Beauty

Of Beast and Beauty

Beastly

Heart’s Blood

The Little Mermaid

The Summer of Chasing Mermaids

Mermaid: A Twist on the Classic Tale

Monstrous Beauty

Midnight Pearls: A Retelling of The Little Mermaid

The Twelve Dancing Princesses

Entwined

Princess of the Midnight Ball

The Princess Curse

Wildwood Dancing

Little Red Ridding Hood

Crimson Bound

Scarlet

Red Riding Hood

Princess of the Silver Woods

Sisters Red

Snow White

Stitching Snow

Fairest

Winter

The Shadow Queen

Snow: A Retelling of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Rapunzel

Cress

Rapunzel Untangled

Towering

Zel

Alice in Wonderland

Splintered

Insanity (Mad in Wonderland)

Alice in Zombieland

The Goose Girl

Thorn

Dearest

Peter pan

Wendy Darling: Stars

Tiger Lily

Second Star

Never Never

Other Retellings

Spinning Starlight

A Thousand Nights

Valiant

Unenchanted

The Wrath and the Dawn

The Wild Orchid: A Retelling of “The Ballad of Mulan”

The Isle of the Lost

Uprooted

My Fair Godmother

Scarlet

Enchanted

My Unfair Godmother

What is your favorite fairy tale retelling? Any retellings that aren’t on the list that you would recommend?

#fairy tale re-tellings

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fitzpatrick’s third novel picks up where next door’s jase and samantha left off--smack in the middle of the garrett family kitchen. told in alternating voices, big sister alice and best friend tim tackle big issues like addiction, recovery, and teenage parenthood. at times awkward, intense, and very, very real, fitzpatrick redefines what it means to be family...

#the boy most likely to #huntley fitzpatrick #tim and alice #jase and samantha

lewis’ second sci-fi fairy tale re-telling. hans christian andersen’s the wild swans goes outer space, with a subtle commentary on the loss of language in the midst of technological advances...

#spinning starlight #r.c. lewis #the wild swans #liddi and tiav

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Best thing ever…

fieldemmerson

agreed...

a gentle look at the bond between sisters, the boy who comes along, and the las vegas flavored scavenger hunt that saves them all...

#finding paris #joy preble #leo and max

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a smart, contemporary novel about family, first love, and presidential politics...

#the wrong side of right #jenn marie thorne #kate and andy

in which heather demetrios talks about the worth of the YA community...

demetrios’ post is so true!

i, too,began my YA book crushing with the twilight books--waaay back in the early 2000s. as a teacher, i had to constantly defend putting these books in my classroom. i purchased multiple copies of meyers’ books and watched my students devour them. literally. they would show up to class with massive book hangovers and that desperate plea so endearing to english teachers everywhere--“what else should i read? is there anything else out there just as good?” and the answer to that is “HELL, YES!!”

i read somewhere that contemporary YA has only been around a couple decades, and that it will take some time for it to establish itself as worthy required reading. whatever. it’s worthy now. i’ve watched it (i’ve READ it) develop these last 10 years and been amazed at the stories and authors who have come along since meyers. my classroom library is packed! there’s so much good stuff to choose from these days! the book piles are bigger than they’ve ever been. and watching my kids read these books to pieces is complete joy.

people have only been reading on a mass scale since the reformation and the printing press. so. what? 500 some years of public literacy? i’m not gonna wait around another 200 years for some of this amazing literature to become “classic” and finally show up on the “approved” high school reading lists. it’s here. it’s now. and it should be shared with young readers while we still stand a chance at convincing them that literacy is worth it.

#heather demetrios #YA literature

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