Written by Aisha Saeed | Published by Random House | Format: Hardback, 250pp
Written by the massively talented author Aisha Saeed, Diana and the Island of No Return is a new Wonder Woman adventure, the first, in fact, of three middle-grade adventures in this new series.
A slick, easy-to-read 250 pages, Diana and the Island of No Return tells the story of a young Diana who desires a life as an Amazon, and wishes to train with them in her home of Themyscira. She pushes and pleads and tries, as she plans to get a blessing from her mother, the Queen of Themyscira, Hippolyta. Then things become a little more problematic for the strong-willed and focused young princess, when a boy visits the island to inform them of an evil that wishes to destroy all they hold dear. With a plan to fight against this new risk to Themyscira and the lands around it,...
Written by the massively talented author Aisha Saeed, Diana and the Island of No Return is a new Wonder Woman adventure, the first, in fact, of three middle-grade adventures in this new series.
A slick, easy-to-read 250 pages, Diana and the Island of No Return tells the story of a young Diana who desires a life as an Amazon, and wishes to train with them in her home of Themyscira. She pushes and pleads and tries, as she plans to get a blessing from her mother, the Queen of Themyscira, Hippolyta. Then things become a little more problematic for the strong-willed and focused young princess, when a boy visits the island to inform them of an evil that wishes to destroy all they hold dear. With a plan to fight against this new risk to Themyscira and the lands around it,...
- 10/12/2020
- by Chris Cummings
- Nerdly
Now that the adaptation of James Dashner's "The Scorch Trials" is two-thirds done, and the final installments of "The Hunger Games" and "Divergent" are coming, it's time to think about which young-adult books will translate well to the big screen.
And we're not just going to list the obvious, like name all of John Green's books (although "Looking for Alaska" is already in pre-production). We're going straight to the source - fellow young adult authors, many of whom have their own titles optioned and in the works.
Here are 14 Ya and children's authors' picks for the books they wish would get green lit.
1. Gayle Forman, author of "If I Stay"
"I would love to see Matt de la Peña's 'The Living' turned into a film. It follows a young man, named Shy, who works as a towel boy on a cruise ship that's sunk by a tsunami.
And we're not just going to list the obvious, like name all of John Green's books (although "Looking for Alaska" is already in pre-production). We're going straight to the source - fellow young adult authors, many of whom have their own titles optioned and in the works.
Here are 14 Ya and children's authors' picks for the books they wish would get green lit.
1. Gayle Forman, author of "If I Stay"
"I would love to see Matt de la Peña's 'The Living' turned into a film. It follows a young man, named Shy, who works as a towel boy on a cruise ship that's sunk by a tsunami.
- 10/9/2015
- by Sandie Angulo Chen
- Moviefone
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