New books for Young Adults
I don't usually read YA books. I've gotten onto kind of a jag with middle grade fiction, so it felt good this week to break into the YA realm. Some of it is very similar to the middle grade fiction (SO MUCH DEATH) and a lot of it is much, much bigger than the middle grade fiction. Hence, the YA categorization. The first one is called "The Monster on the Road is Me" by J. P. Romney. It's about a 15 year old boy named Koda. He lived in a small town in Japan with his elderly parents who are shiitake mushroom farmers. Koda can not imagine a fate worse than being a mushroom farmer, but it looks like that's where he's headed. He loves video games, doesn't like school and he doesn't have many friends, mostly the kids at school pity him. Koda was diagnosed with narcolepsy awhile back and so his parents insist that he wear a helmet so when he rides his bike, if he falls asleep, at least his head will be protected. One day, a girl at Koda's ...