F. N. Knight's The First Cycle is an ambitious, richly imagined science-fantasy epic that announces the arrival of a writer with a bold vision.
BookTribJune 2, 2026
Stars, Stripes and Summer Nights is a wholesome and young adult romance novel by Celeste Dador.
Natalia KavaleMay 29, 2026
Isaiah Owens thinks his worst mistake is acting as lookout while bullies break into Granny Rose’s cookie shop. Then a green mist calls him to the Land of Integrity, where a watchman, a fearless warrior and even a talking wolf push him toward a mission that could save a kingdom…
BookTribNovember 24, 2025
Bracken Ever since I read Caroline B. Cooney’s Both Sides of Time as a preteen, I’ve been hooked on time travel stories. Over the years, I’ve devoured any time travel book that I can, especially ones involving romances that exist out of space and time. And there have been a…
Rachel CarterJanuary 5, 2017
When President Donald Trump announced the “Patriot Games,” an athletic competition bringing one young man and one young woman from every state and territory to Washington, D.C., a lot of people felt a strange kind of déjà vu. Not concern, exactly. More like recognition. YA dystopian fiction has been exploring…
Monique SnymanJanuary 26, 2026
Queer author Rebekah Faubion delivers a captivating and haunting Young Adult horror/thriller with a paranormal twist. Lost Girls of Hollow Lake revolves around a group of high school teenage girls who vanished on a mysterious island while on a school trip. During an Environmental Science trip to Hollow Lake National…
Natalia KavaleJanuary 27, 2026
Prepare yourself to get lost in the magic of Disney with Alexandra Monir’s Realm of Wonders (Disney Hyperion). Pairing a beloved Disney princess with the tough realities she faces, Monir’s book is a cant-miss take on a beloved franchise and a much-needed reminder about princesses — they’re just like us.…
Aurora DominguezNovember 23, 2023
Right off the bat, Sheena Boekweg’s A Sisterhood of Secret Ambitions (Feiwel & Friends) is a real go-getter of a novel: five main characters are introduced in the first two pages, the stakes instantly raised as they attempt to save a woman from her abusive husband. The year is 1926,…
Savannah CordovaJune 16, 2021
Author and educator Frances Schoonmaker doesn’t shy away from educating teenage readers about the important and troubling parts of American history. She tells riveting tales of historical fiction about slavery in Sid Johnson and the Phantom Slave Stealer and the displacement of Native Americans in her new book, Sid Johnson…
Kelsey HallJanuary 17, 2024
“My world is your world – only you can’t remember any of it. A barrier exists between what you think is real and what you know to be. It had been put in place during the transition into the world you currently know and will be removed upon your return.…
Jim AlkonMarch 4, 2024
New York Times bestselling author Roshani Chokshi (The Star-Touched Queen, The Gilded Wolves, Aru Shah and The End of Time) makes her highly anticipated return to YA this year with The Swan’s Daughter, an endearing tale set within a fairytale world packed with magic and mayhem. A Fairytale Curse with…
Kiersten BjorkJanuary 6, 2026
Cassandra Clare, New York Times best-selling author of the wildly popular Young Adult urban fantasy series The Mortal Instruments, The Infernal Devices, and The Dark Artifices, has just signed a seven-figure book deal with Del Rey Books to launch a new series in the same genre, but with an adult audience as the focus. Sword…
BookTribNovember 29, 2017
If you've ever heard of chat fiction, chances are, you've got a teenager. Think about it like this: e-books were the new alternative to paperbacks, and chat fiction is the new alternative to e-books. Instead of just putting paperbacks into digital format, chat-fiction are stories, but told in text message…
BookTribNovember 14, 2017
Rarely nowadays do we find books in the Young Adult genre that aren't filled with death, murder, bullying, depression, and more. While books with these themes do hold an important place in literature, the market, after the success of books like 13 Reasons Why, has become saturated - if not over-saturated…
BookTribJune 14, 2018
If you were to go back to medieval times, what job do you think you’d have? That’s the question we asked Cait Jacobs, author of the USA Today bestseller The Princess Knight. This ingenious medieval romantasy puts a twist on classic Y2K movies like Cadet Kelly and Legally Blonde to tell the story of Clía,…
Cameron KimballOctober 28, 2025