Think You Know Romeo and Juliet?James Hartley, author of Cold Fire, which is based on Romeo and Juliet, says we might not know the play as well as we think. Valentine´s Day is upon us and, like it or not, everyone´s going to be talking about love. Someone, somewhere – everywhere! - will mention cupid and someone, somewhere will mention Romeo and Juliet. Everyone seems to think they know the play, but do they? I write a series of books about teenagers at a magical school who get mixed up in the plots of Shakespeare´s plays and the last book in the series, Cold Fire, was based on Romeo and Juli ..read more

Literary Book Gifts If you're looking for a gift for some a book-worm teen, tween or even adult, then you should go check out the Literary book gifts website! You can get awesome T-shirts like this Edgar Allen Poe one! If you want to go and check it out, there's an exclusive 20% off code for all of you fine folk. Just use the code THETWEENBOOKBLOG20 at the checkout! Just head over to https://literarybookgifts.com to see the cool stuff for book lovers that they have! Or this Sherlock Homles T-Shirt ..read more

Hello Blog! This is my first post in almost a year and hasn't it gone fast. But I thought that I might try and get back to updating this blog, and see where it goes. So here we go, the tween book blog's first blog post of 2019. Unboxed by Non Pratt Five best friends hid a box when they were 13. Five years later, four of them return to open it, overshadowed by the death of the fifth. I read this book for a book club at school, and to be honest I probably wouldn't have finished it if I didn't have to. Unboxed is short, promising secrets and lies to come spilling out, however, the book h ..read more

Top three books of 2018 so far... So, I know that I haven't been written a blog post lately and so I thought that I would write about some of the best books that I have read in the past few months. So, here goes! 1) The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas To be fair, I have read THUG before, but I re read during the February half term, and it's such as good book!! I definitely recommend this book to pretty much anyone over the age of thirteen. It doesn't matter if you are no longer a teen, and if you don't normally read YA, it really is worth it! 2) Death Note by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata ..read more

The Tween Book Blogs Best Books of of 2017 So, as a round up to 2017 I thought I would do a short list of the best books that I read in 2017. This year was a good year for me in terms of books. I went to my first YALC, which was an amazing experience. I also went to the TSBA award ceremony, where I met Stewart Foster and Diana Hendry. So here goes, the tween book blogs best books of 2017! Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys Florian was tricked by his Nazi employer, and is now escaping Germany. Joana was forced to flee from her country, and is now escaping Germany.Emilia had to leave, afte ..read more

The Weight of Water by Sarah Crossan Kasienka, a twelve-year-old polish girl has just moved to England, to look for her father. She knows little English, and her peers know no Polish. How will she cope with new found friends, enemies, and lovers? Sarah Crossan's The Weight of Water is written in verse. Whilst other books of hers, such as One and We Come Apart, work in verse, I do not think that The Weight of Water worked in a similar way. All it meant was that the book, which looked like your average sized book, was in fact very short. I did not feel like the poetry enriched the book ..read more

So, as you can see, I just made quite a big difference to the appearance of my blog. It is now slightly less crazy, hopefully it is easier to read, and I think I like it a little bit more. But I want to know what you think, as your the readers, not me. I really appreciate your feedback, so whatever your thoughts, leave them in the comments down below ..read more

Four Things that I Wish I Knew when I started blogging If you are just starting up a book blog this is the post for you! Welcome from all the blogging community! This is a post about      1. Blogging is really hard work! At first, I thought that I would be able to output content three times a week, with properly in-depth posts. However, I soon realised that this was a lot harder than expected. For a start, I had just started a secondary school, and it wasn't easy to balance more homework, tiredness and blogging all in one. It didn't help that to blog you needed to read. Li ..read more

Newspaper Review: First News First News is a newspaper for young people. I like the idea of first news. A broadsheet newspaper for children. I like that it is one of a kind, the only other thing like it is a magasine, not a newspaper. The front page of First News definately draws you in. It has one big, bold headline in the middle of the page, and then a few other smaller ones down the side telling you whats else is in the paper. The news paper definately adresses all the news, not just dumbed down bits for kids, and the front page is the best place to see that. The article on it often adre ..read more

What I Wish I Knew about my First Literature Convention A couple of months ago, I went to my first literature convention. It was fun, I came back with lots of books, but there were some things that I wish I knew about before going to there. So I have created a list of things that I feel are important to know about if going for the first time. 1. Bring A Bag Even if you don't have any money on you at all, the likelyhood is that you will come home with a few books (or nine), a lot of badges, some tasters and more. I didn't turn up with a bag, and to be honest found myself kind of lucky as one ..read more