Sharpen your fangs and get ready for some forbidden love. Stephenie Meyer’s massively popular book, Twilight, is being made into a movie.  The director is Catherine Hardwicke, who you might know from the movies Thirteen, Lords of Dogtown, and The Nativity Story.  A lot of the characters have already been cast, and you can see information about them on Stephenie Meyer's website...

 What is Inkheart all about?  One cruel night, Meggie's father reads aloud from a book called "Inkheart," and an evil ruler escapes the boundaries of fiction and lands in their living room. Suddenly, Meggie is smack in the middle of the kind of adventure she has only read about in books.

What is The Spiderwick Chronicles about? Upon moving into the run-down Spiderwick Estate with their mother, twin brothers Jared and Simon Grace, along with their sister Mallory, find themselves pulled into an alternate world full of faeries and other creatures.

In the last two new YA books I read, the characters love the show My So-Called Life and talk about it often. This surprised me because the show was a short-lived teen drama from 1994.  Don’t get me wrong, because during our senior year, my friends and I watched the show every Thursday night on ABC.

The latest book to be turned into a movie is Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison.  If you haven’t read it, this is the hilarious story of a 14 year old British girl named Georgia who has some crazy stuff going on in her life.  She has an insane cat that is big enough to eat a poodle, a little sister that smells a bit “hamsterish,” and parents that are clueless about everything she does.  It’s written in diary-style, so the reader really gets to know and love Georgia.