Sunday, January 28, 2018

Nine top meet cutes in YA history

At the BN Teen Blog, Nicole Hill tagged nine favorite meet cutes in YA history, including:
The Fault in Our Stars, by John Green

Four words: children’s cancer support group. From the moment Hazel and Augustus meet in that particular setting, it’s clear the ending to this beginning will be difficult and painful. It is, but all the days and weeks in between are some of the purest and fully lived of any two characters in YA or any other genre.
Read about the other entries on the list.

The Fault in Our Stars is among Lara Williamson's ten top goodbyes in children’s literature, the Off the Shelf Staff's eight great books told by child narrators, Luke Kelly's five top YA novels, and Sophie McKenzie's five favorite Young Adult books that appeal to teenagers.

--Marshal Zeringue