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Hailee Steinfeld Finally Gets Her Big YA Role: Why We Broke Up

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Ever since we saw Hailee Steinfeld manipulate a bunch of grown outlaws in True Grit, we’ve been begging Hollywood to cast her in everything — she was a big favorite to play Katniss in The Hunger Games before fellow Oscar nominee Jennifer Lawrence got the gig. And, as much as we’re looking forward to seeing [...]

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Maurice Sendak Dead At 83, Wild Things Everywhere In Mourning

Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

It’s a sad day for everyone who ever put on a wolf costume, got sent to bed without dinner and/or dreamed of being fierce rulers of our own private island. Maurice Sendak, author of Where the Wild Things Are, died early this morning at age 83 of complications from a stroke, according to the New [...]

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J.K. Rowling’s New Book, The Casual Vacancy, Will Be About … Politics?

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Back in February, J.K. Rowling warned us that her upcoming book would be “very different to Harry,” but we’re not sure anyone was prepared for just how different she was talking about. We thought maybe more mature, since it’s for adults; perhaps more self-contained, after the exhausting process of the seven Harry Potter novels and [...]

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The Host First Stills Invade People; Ender’s Game Watch Begins

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The book-to-movie adaptation news cycle never lets up these days, does it? Most of us haven’t even seen the Hunger Games yet, and already we’ve seen a teaser for the Breaking Dawn – Part 2 teaser trailer that will be shown before Hunger Games and a trailer for RPattz’s Cosmopolis (an adaptation of a very [...]

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Ghostly Words, Haunting Tunes: Gift Shows How Scary Your iPad Can Be

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Here’s what sold me on reading Andrea J. Buchanan’s Gift, an enhanced ebook due out next week: It’s a ghost story that is itself haunted. As in, words and pictures appear on the page, sometimes moving on the page, upping the goosebump factor beyond the story’s actual events. What hooked me: When perfect-boy love interest [...]