Young Adult

Young Adult

YA Fantasy Debut “Celestial Banquet” Is a Veritable Feast for the Senses

Roselle Lim’s YA fantasy debut, Celestial Banquet, is a veritable feast for the senses. Centering around a hot-headed teen protagonist who aims to change her life and home through her cooking skills, it’s a thrilling exploration of family, love and home through a colorful culinary lens. Cooking for the Gods…

Kiersten BjorkJune 3, 2025

Young Adult

Teenager’s Daydreams Shattered by Family Secrets in Mythology-Tinged Debut

Selina Li Bi has written an imaginative and poetic Young Adult debut novel, Sunlight Playing Over a Mountain, that will pull at readers’ heartstrings. There is injustice and unbalance in the world when a child is forced to grow up too fast, forced to assume the adult responsibilities of caring…

Linda HitchcockMay 20, 2025

Young Adult

Romance, Adventure and Horror Collide in Epic, Ancient Egyptian Inspired Fantasy

Okay, so I went into His Face Is the Sun expecting chaos, gods and battles from the start ... and that’s not exactly what I got — but I’m not mad about it. Author Michelle Jabès Corpora definitely takes their time building things up, and while that threw me off at…

Cemile AtarMay 9, 2025

Fiction Young Adult

“Sunrise on the Reaping” Stuns Hunger Games Fans with Haymitch’s Harrowing Origin Story

Happy 16th Birthday, Haymitch! In Sunrise on the Reaping, Suzanne Collins’ latest amazing installment in The Hunger Games franchise, readers are thrust into the treacherous world of Haymitch Abernathy’s origin story. The Second Quarter Quell Changes Everything Each year, Haymitch’s birthday is marked by the cruelest of events in the…

Jodé MillmanMarch 31, 2025

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5 Fiery YA Audiobooks About Getting Revenge

These audiobooks about revenge illuminate the lengths people will go to correct the injustices they’ve endured. The narrators give raw, emotional performances that draw teen listeners in.

Alex RicheyJanuary 28, 2025

Fable for the End of the World by Ava Reid

Fiction Young Adult

Queer Dystopian Romance Perfect for Fans of “The Hunger Games” and “The Last of Us”

Fable for the End of the World marks A Study in Drowning author Ava Reid’s highly anticipated return to YA. A heart-pounding dystopian romance, Fable for the End of the World takes the televised-competition-to-the-death premise of The Hunger Games and infuses it with even more modern context and triggers, all…

Kiersten BjorkMarch 10, 2025

Recommended Young Adult

A Secret Life Abroad After Family’s Escape From Soviet Invasion

After a grueling escape from Hungary following the 1956 Soviet invasion, her father arranges for friends to take her across the Atlantic to America. Before she boards the ocean liner, he pulls her aside, and from his ragged coat takes out a flat, rectangular, butcher-paper-wrapped package tied with twine. “Keep…

Jim AlkonJanuary 17, 2025

Young Adult

Psychological Thriller Follows a Missing Teen and Deadly Family Secrets

When Mimi Went Missing packs a wallop and commands the reader’s attention right from the opening paragraph. For many, it may be a reminder of the dreaded high school cliques and the mean girls who ran them but with darker intent. This debut novel of Suja Sukumar is categorized as…

Linda HitchcockJanuary 14, 2025

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5 YA Holiday Romances to Warm Your Heart

How is everyone? By the time this posts, those who are celebrating Christmas, or are in communities where holiday preparations are at their peak might either be bursting with excitement or exhaustion. Our to-do lists might seem impossible to overcome, our schedules packed to the brim. But we have books—print,…

Tif MarceloDecember 23, 2024

Where the Library Hides by Isabel Ibañez

Fiction Young Adult

“The Mummy” Meets “Indiana Jones” in Lush YA Romantasy Sequel

There aren’t many pleasures in this world, but reading a sequel that actually lives up to the hype and expectations of the first that you fell in love with is definitely one of them. Ever since I read that insane ending to What the River Knows, I have been chomping…

Kelsey HallNovember 14, 2024

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Dinosaurs Steal the Show in Fun YA Fantasy Adventure

Is that a dinosaur? Yes, it is … welcome to Jurassic Park. Just kidding! No, you haven’t stumbled upon some ill-conceived theme park, nor have you traveled 65 million years into the past. But that is, in fact, a dinosaur — several, actually. You’ve entered J.S. Allen’s unforgettable Sauragia. Here,…

BookTribNovember 29, 2021

Recommended Young Adult

Superheroes, Friendship, and Romance in a High-Stakes Mystery

Sometimes the inspiration for a book is as intriguing as the book itself. In the case of Marked for Slaughter, a suspense-packed mystery geared for teens, author Samaritan Ari Jackson explains that she wrote it in middle school because “I thought I could do it, so I did.” The Story…

Natalie GarrisonSeptember 9, 2024

Recommended Young Adult

Discover Untold Heroism in Historical Novel of War and Hope

Melissa Cole’s riveting debut historical novel, A Grain of Hope, takes an up close and personal look at a seldom discussed piece of history — the Holodomor, also known as the Ukrainian Famine. Over 2 years, millions of Ukrainians died at the hands of the Soviets and their man-made famine.…

Katie BloomerJuly 9, 2024

Fiction Young Adult

“An Ember in the Ashes” Author Returns with Spellbinding YA Romantasy, “Heir”

An orphan, an outcast and a prince find themselves on the same path as they battle the demons that come with a world obsessed with power and vengeance in this spinoff of Tahir’s bestselling Ember in the Ashes series. Sabaa Tahir is the type of high fantasy author who takes…

Aurora DominguezOctober 2, 2024

Fiction Recommended Young Adult

Action-Packed Thriller Sequel Is Rollercoaster of Suspense and Intrigue

Wolf’s Head Bay: The Race for Home by Jeffery Allen Boyd is a gripping continuation of the thrilling saga that began in the first book of the series. As the book picks up where its predecessor left off, readers are once again immersed in the harrowing journey of Jeremy and…

Wyatt SemenukJune 7, 2024

Miscellany Young Adult

She Wrote About the Psychological Confinement of Women — Because She Lived It

In this essay, author A.S. King shares her personal history with domestic violence and abuse. Her novel, Pick the Lock, is a stunning, surrealistic, and provocative YA book that explores how our world treats women, told through the eyes of a teenage girl trying to pick the lock on her toxic family.…

A.S. KingSeptember 23, 2024

5 Fiery YA Audiobooks About Getting Revenge

A Secret Life Abroad After Family’s Escape From Soviet Invasion

5 YA Holiday Romances to Warm Your Heart

Dinosaurs Steal the Show in Fun YA Fantasy Adventure

Superheroes, Friendship, and Romance in a High-Stakes Mystery

Discover Untold Heroism in Historical Novel of War and Hope

Action-Packed Thriller Sequel Is Rollercoaster of Suspense and Intrigue

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