The weekly web ramble (11/29)

Links from the web jungle

WEB OF INTEREST –>

– From Salon, a textual comparison of The Hunger Games, Twilight and Harry Potter

– The Harry Potter Alliance has launched a Hunger Games-themed social justice campaign

– Stacked has a list of 2014 Contemporary YA to get on your radar

–  Kirkus Reviews shares their picks for best children’s book of 2013

– From Mental Floss, Shel Silverstein‘s unlikely rise to kid lit superstardom

<– AUTHOR TALK

– Robert V.S. Redick explains why, when it comes to writing fantasy, omnipotence is impotence

– Shannon Hale on not mocking Austen (but laughing all the same)

– Maria Alexander on why she hates (most) photos and drawings of women with swords  

– Debut author Alison Cherry shares nine things about publishing she didn’t know going in

– In case of holiday travel, Michelle Gagnon shares her book tour travel essentials 

WEB READS –>

Revenge of the Girl with the Great Personality

– Read the first twenty pages of Revenge of the Girl with the Great Personality by Elizabeth Fulberg 

These Broken Stars

– Check out an excerpt from These Broken Stars by Arnie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner 

Princesses Behaving Badly

– Read an excerpt from Princesses Behaving Badly by Linda Rodriguez McRobbie

Grasshopper Jungle

– Check out the first fifty pages of Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith