Today we welcome back local teacher and writer Cami Nihipali, with a guide to finding the right gift for young adult readers. And no, it’s not all vampires and werewolves. Thank you, Cami, for sharing these great tips! Now here’s Cami …

Let’s face it, adolescents are tough to buys gifts for. Sure, it’s easy to give them gift cards and cash, but sometimes that just doesn’t feel personal enough, right? So, here are five types of adolescent readers and the adolescent novels on the market right now to match.

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These days you can’t escape them. Edward in the Twilight series is only the latest in a long line of scary and often romantic vampires. Used to be that vampires were confined to Transylvania, and between the covers of books like Bram Stoker’s 1897 classic Dracula (still the best and most frig [...]
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Recently I asked some members of the Aloha Chapter, Romance Writers of America, how much romance they could handle. How would you answer that question? Here’s what the writers said.  (Watch out for romantic vampires lurking below ... we'll take a [...]
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