Teen & YA Coming of Age Fiction

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

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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

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Sometimes, “Far Less” Is Much More in Searingly Honest Coming Of Age Novel

There’s something magical about observing the beauty of nature from the vantage point of a large redwood tree high above a California forest, looking down at the tranquility and the possibilities the world has to offer. There’s something more poignant when the person on that perch is the homeless 17-year-old…

Jim AlkonNovember 19, 2021

Fiction Recommended Young Adult

Community & Friendship in Wake of Tragedy in YA Coming-of-Age

Ever hear the expression: so many lessons, so little time? Neither did I. But with so much to unpack in Shawn Samuelson Henry’s marvelous debut YA novel Made in Maine (Woodhall Press), it’s an appropriate way to characterize and celebrate this multi-pronged, issues-jammed teenagers' search for their true selves and…

Jim AlkonSeptember 12, 2023

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Our World Needs More Than “Thoughts & Prayers,” but This Powerful Book Is a Good Start

Almost four years after the horrific school shooting in Parkland, Florida, author Lee Anne Post pays homage to the victims in her novel Thoughts and Prayers (Milford House Press). This riveting and terrifying read takes us into the minds of the perpetrators, the victims and the victims’ families in a…

K.L. RomoNovember 19, 2021

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High in the Treetops, a Courageous Young Woman Fights to Save Her People From Persecution

“We worship the same ‘One,’ and we live and share the same earth, here or higher up. We practice the same teaching, with just a few differences. What a shame our people can’t be friends.” Where do you go when it feels like there’s nowhere you belong? What happens when…

BookTribJune 28, 2022

Teen & YA Coming of Age Fiction

Brave Young Mage Uncovers Deadly Conspiracy in YA Fantasy

Sometimes, “Far Less” Is Much More in Searingly Honest Coming Of Age Novel

Community & Friendship in Wake of Tragedy in YA Coming-of-Age

Our World Needs More Than “Thoughts & Prayers,” but This Powerful Book Is a Good Start

High in the Treetops, a Courageous Young Woman Fights to Save Her People From Persecution

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