Tag Archives: Classic YA Month

CLASSIC YA The Outsiders by S E Hinton

Posted on August 23, 2017 by paisleypiranha

‘This is one of those books when you keep wanting to shout, “No! Don’t!” at the characters.’ The protagonist of The Outsiders, first published in 1967, is 14-year-old Ponyboy Curtis, who lives with his two older brothers, both of whom … Continue reading →

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CLASSIC YA The Catcher in the Rye by J D Salinger

Posted on August 14, 2017 by paisleypiranha

“the existential angst of adolescence” I hardly know how to start to write a review of The Catcher in the Rye. Published in 1951, it’s a book so famous surely anyone who is interested in reading books with teen protagonists … Continue reading →

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CLASSIC YA MONTH: Z for Zachariah by Robert O’Brien

Posted on August 29, 2016 by paisleypiranha

“How do you carry on living after the world as you know it has been destroyed?” First published in 1975, Z for Zachariah is a novel that encapsulates the fear of imminent apocalypse that gripped many people at the height … Continue reading →

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CLASSIC YA MONTH: Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Posted on August 27, 2016 by paisleypiranha

“If you loved Pride and Prejudice, you’ll love this too!” Everyone has heard of Mr Darcy and Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen’s most famous book, but to my mind Sense and Sensibility is every bit as good and I love … Continue reading →

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CLASSIC YA MONTH: Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card

Posted on August 24, 2016 by paisleypiranha

“A book you’ll go on thinking about long after you’ve stopped reading it.” Ender’s Game, first published in 1985 as an elaboration of a short story written in 1977, is the story of Ender Wiggins, a child genius whose … Continue reading →

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CLASSIC YA MONTH: Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

Posted on August 22, 2016 by paisleypiranha

“Poor Catherine is thrown from ecstasies to despair on a moment-to-moment basis” I first read Jane Austen when I was fourteen. I was pretty smug about it, I have to admit. Not a lot of my friends were bothering with … Continue reading →

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CLASSIC YA MONTH: Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Posted on August 17, 2016 by paisleypiranha

Continuing our Classic YA series, the Piranhas review Wuthering Heights. Goodreads blurb (it’s a bit hyperbolic, I apologise): Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by … Continue reading →

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CLASSIC YA MONTH: The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford

Posted on August 12, 2016 by paisleypiranha

Reading The Pursuit Of Love again was a joy. Fanny, the heroine, claims to be an ordinary child, but her cousins, the Radletts, are extraordinary and through Fanny’s eyes we get to meet and enjoy their complete eccentricity. The family … Continue reading →

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CLASSIC YA MONTH: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Posted on August 8, 2016 by paisleypiranha

I don’t know how many times I have read Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (or Currer Bell as she called herself when it was first published) but it’s one of the few books I never get tired of – it’s … Continue reading →

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CLASSIC YA MONTH: Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier

Posted on August 5, 2016 by paisleypiranha

Review by Gill-Marie Stewart I first read this book as a teenager and although my memories of the story are not at all clear, I have vivid recollections of the murderous inn keeper, smuggling, the danger of the sea and … Continue reading →

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