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Discover a World of Privilege and Power in Emily Tesh’s Sapphic Dark Academia

The Incandescent by Emily Tesh is the YA sapphic dark academia you didn’t know you needed! It blends richly layered fantasy with a dash of enemies-to-lovers romance, all set in a unique and intriguing academic setting. Tesh explores themes of love, loyalty and power in this fun romp into a…

Caleb ThomasMay 15, 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

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“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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A Race Through Time to Save the Past and Secure the Future

Beyond Australia is an engaging young-adult novel about an inquisitive teenaged girl who bravely undergoes time travel in the hope of saving her ailing grandfather. This is a first work of fiction for research scientist Lee Forrest, whose empirical training shows up throughout the story in its precisely detailed historical…

Anne Eliot FeldmanMarch 14, 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

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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

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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

YA Holiday Romances - Tall Poppy listicle

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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

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

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

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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

Young Adult

Deadly Dealings and Dangerous Desires in YA Vampire Fantasy

Immortal Dark (Little, Brown and Company) is a fresh, decadent and deliciously seductive return to the world of vampires. Just in time for the first hints of fall, the highly anticipated YA debut from Tigest Girma fulfills all your darkest desires. Set at Uxlay University, a hidden campus where humans…

Kiersten BjorkSeptember 4, 2024

Fiction Recommended Young Adult

Brave Young Mage Uncovers Deadly Conspiracy in YA Fantasy

Author Julie Colacchio’s exciting new YA book, The Poisoned Fruit, kept me turning pages well into the night. In fact, one night, I hadn’t slept. You see, the world Colacchio has created has Mages and magic. And that magic? It’s deadly without its host. Growing up as a Canopian Mage,…

Bailey RadfordSeptember 4, 2024

Young Adult

Teen Grapples With Mind Reading Powers in YA Novel

Author Wendy Wunder of the acclaimed novel The Probability of Miracles is back with a playful yet profound story in her latest YA, Mysterious Ways. Our main character, 17-year-old Maya has a gift (or should we call it a curse?) that allows her to instantly know everything about a person…

Kelsey HallAugust 27, 2024

A Race Through Time to Save the Past and Secure the Future

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

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

Brave Young Mage Uncovers Deadly Conspiracy in YA Fantasy

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