Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish.

This week: Ten Childhood Characters You’d Love To Revisit As Adults! With some favourite characters, like Mia Thermopolis, Jessica Darling, or Hermione Granger, I’ve had the tremendous luck to be able to follow them into adulthood AND love who they had become. Some characters that I love…well, I’m not sure I’d want to revisit as I genuinely want to leave them as I adore and remember them.

But who else would I like to revisit as an adult? In no particular order, here are my picks. The characters are mostly from the teen genre, some old and beloved favourites, and some wonderfully memorable characters from recently read stand-out YA:

• Anna Bloom from Julie Halpern’s Anna Bloom series
• Clarissa and Benji from Vikki VanSickle’s Clarissa Delaney series
• Hadley from Jennifer E. Smith’s The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight
• Hermione and Polly from E.K. Johnston’s Exit, Pursued by a Bear. Recently read, I highly recommend this one; Hermione’s narrative voice was SO GOOD.
• Amanda Hardy from Meredith Russo’s If I Was Your Girl
• Elizabeth Clarry from Jaclyn Moriarty’s Feeling Sorry for Celia
• Jill and Mandy from Sara Zarr’s How to Save a Life
• Daisy and Hazel from Robin Stevens’ Wells and Wong mystery series
• Annabeth from Hilary T. Smith’s A Sense of the Infinite
• Henry from Susin Nielsen’s The Reluctant Journal of Henry K. Larsen

Which characters would you like to revisit?

Don’t forget to check out the post on The Broke and the Bookish and have a look at other great lists!

Another year of reading is inching its way to an end! All around, I would say that it has been a pretty solid year of reads: from brilliant and moving picture books, to gems in young adult, children’s and adult fiction, there have been a number of winners.

I am so happy to say that though I did not read a ton of YA, there were a number of terrific– smart, sharp, meaningful, innovative- teen titles in the relatively small selection I did get to. Great crop! In no particular order, here are my picks for best young adult fiction:

The Last Time We Say Goodbye by Cynthia Hand
A Sense of the Infinite by Hilary T. Smith
Vengeance Road by Erin Bowman
Tonight the Streets Are Ours by Leila Sales
The Truth Commission by Susan Juby
Thrice Burned (Portia Adams Adventure #2) by Angela Misri
Simon Vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli
Conviction by Kelly Loy Gilbert

*Some titles may not have been published in 2015; the books are titles I read over the last year. Some titles may have been gifted from publishers in exchange for honest reviews; this had no impact on placing in this list.