Young Adult

Training for the Patriot Games? 7 YA Dystopian Novels Where Athleticism Becomes Power

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

Young Adult

Enter the Magic of Roshani Chokshi’s Latest YA, “The Swan’s Daughter”

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

Miscellany Young Adult

Is Chat-Fiction the Next Big Thing in Publishing?

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

Listicles Popular

Adventure, Heartbreak and a Dash of Magic — Read the First Chapters Free!

Whether you’re thirteen or thirty-something, there’s magic in stories that remind us of what it’s like to feel everything all at once — that dizzy mix of hope, heartbreak, wonder and courage that defines growing up (no matter how old you actually are). These three books are made for readers…

BookTribOctober 15, 2025

Young Adult

International Bestselling Author Brigid Kemmerer Returns With a Thrilling New Fantasy

Brigid Kemmerer’s Warrior Princess Assassin is a young adult fantasy that combines danger, betrayal and the struggles of survival with themes of family and self-discovery. This book follows the journey of a princess who finds herself caught between loyalty to her crown and the desire to live her own life…

Sunday Juliet AdakuSeptember 25, 2025

Miscellany Young Adult

Missing: Stories About Black American Muslim Teens in YA Fiction

Unfortunately, Black American Muslim teens are rarely the main characters in traditionally-published, contemporary young adult novels. In 2017, I was shocked when I learned at my local library there wasn’t a single title available. That abysmal statistic pushed me to start writing these types of stories. More than once, I’ve…

Khadijah VanBrakleJune 30, 2025

Listicles

7 Books That’ll Lure You Into the Shadows

There’s something intoxicating about stories where the line between reality and something more slips just enough to make you question everything. Books where the dead whisper, the air hums with unsaid things and the uncanny becomes ordinary. Whether you’re drawn to girls with dangerous gifts or towns steeped in secrets,…

Monique SnymanJune 11, 2025

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

Recommended

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

Thrillers Young Adult

Saving a Silent Girl in “Speak No Evil”

Melody Fisher is just sixteen years old, but she’s already experienced enough heartbreak to last a lifetime. From the time of her mother’s death and her father’s disappearance when she was only nine years old, Melody has bounced between various foster placements and new schools, often finding each one worse…

Paige VigliaroloSeptember 17, 2019

Miscellany

Winners of 2022 National Book Awards

Big news, literary lovers! This year’s recipients of the National Book Awards have been announced; keep reading to find out the winners in five crucial categories! Padma Lakshmi, Emmy-nominated producer, food expert, television host, and New York Times bestselling author, hosted the exclusively online National Book Awards Ceremony on November…

BookTribNovember 17, 2022

Thrillers Young Adult

Counselor At Immersive Horror Camp Finds Herself Playing the “Final Girl” … for Real

A girl with the perfect summer job at a camp obsessed with horror films finds herself at risk of becoming the real “final girl” in this young adult slasher novel. Kalynn Baron is a YA author known for capturing characters living in fantasy worlds or being confronted with unique experiences.…

Aurora DominguezJune 21, 2023

Nonfiction

Two Immigrants Unveil an Unjust Justice System in Heartbreaking Nonfiction Story

“Remember! Justice Crucified August 23, 1927” was printed with black ink onto blood red felt armbands. These were handed out and worn by many of the over 7,000 mourners marching in the funeral cortege following the hearses bearing the bodies of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. The men, considered to…

Linda HitchcockFebruary 23, 2023

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Travel Through Time in this YA Sci-Fi by a 16-Year Old Author

After barely surviving a perilous journey through time, Wren Derecho has defeated her evil future self and thinks she has destroyed the corrupted time orb. But the present that she knows and loves hasn’t remained unscathed. What originally appear to be small, unusual changes give way to reality-collapsing tears in…

ValkyrieSeptember 13, 2022

Fiction Thrillers Young Adult

Lost History and Aliens Clash in New Jon Land and Heather Graham Novel

Authors Heather Graham and Jon Land know their way around action-packed thrillers. They don’t mess around in their latest novel, Blood Moon (Tor Books), putting all of humanity in peril in this second of an ongoing series that began with The Rising. Graham and Land teleport the readers onto an Earth in which humanity faces attack from…

Dennis HetzelNovember 9, 2022

Young Adult Young Adult - Featured

This Teen Must Master Her New Powers to Face Formidable Enemies … And High School

Lilly Dobbs always assumed she was human. Her life hasn’t exactly been normal, per se — an orphan twice over, she’s been stuck in the foster care system since she was nine, bounced from one home to another. But that’s just bad luck — surely there isn’t a bigger reason…

Cameron KimballAugust 19, 2022

Training for the Patriot Games? 7 YA Dystopian Novels Where Athleticism Becomes Power

Is Chat-Fiction the Next Big Thing in Publishing?

Adventure, Heartbreak and a Dash of Magic — Read the First Chapters Free!

Missing: Stories About Black American Muslim Teens in YA Fiction

7 Books That’ll Lure You Into the Shadows

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

Saving a Silent Girl in “Speak No Evil”

Winners of 2022 National Book Awards

Travel Through Time in this YA Sci-Fi by a 16-Year Old Author

This Teen Must Master Her New Powers to Face Formidable Enemies … And High School

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