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The Lost Years of Merlin. There are only five in it, but there are other related books by TA Barron.

Yeah, adding "ness" to things is fun. I seriously once heard someone say "stay-in there-ed-ness"

I still hold to the fact that the ultimate YA novel is The Outsiders, for reasons not the least of whihc is that it was written by a sixteen-year-old. *seeths ...

You just don't know where to look. There is a lot of good stuff out there. For YA novels, you have to look to the small presses, particularly stuff that ...

I like the first one. The second one is too cutsie.

The only series I read are the ones based on movies (Star Wars) and TV shows I like (currently Smallville, formerly Buffy and Angel)

Naw, you just go to the library.

Yeah. It's good to read the hobbit before hand. You can appriciate LOTR better if you know that story, but everything you NEED to know from The Hobbit is explained.

This week, I have come to a very simple conclusion about Canadian publishers who believe they are publishing books for teens. They suck.

What sort of socks would you give me? I am in dire need of a pair. As for this, not the kind of style I generally like, but I can ...

The fact that it's making you talk like a brit shows just how good that book was. I only read the first one, but it was really very funny. Maybe ...

MMM. Pie.

Oh yeah, I know confuzzled. One of my favourite abuses of the English language would be something said on Buffy the Vampire Slayer: "I'm suffering from the afterness of a ...

As writers, we have the freedom to play with and abuse our language. We invent phrases, find new uses for words, and even make up our own. Writers such as ...

So true. I think the thing that makes much of his work so special is that he uses contemporary, social realism and mixes it with ancient lore and mythology. So ...