In Robert L. Anderson’s intriguing, crazy inventive debut, Dreamland, Dea, like her eccentric mother, needs to walk people’s dreams to stay healthy. There are rules a dreamwalker must follow—never visit the same dreamer twice, never interfere—but when a crush on new friend Connor causes Dea to ignore those rules, there are dire consequences. The dream monsters who’ve […]

September’s embarrassment of bookshelf riches continues this week with strange fantasy, dark sci-fi, horror set in a hungry cornfield, and a topical tale about complicity and guilt. Here are 13 books worth clearing your DVR for right now:

I don’t know about you guys, but I love a good Western. Especially because the concept of a western, and the Wild West altogether, is so wide open for interpretation. It doesn’t have to take place among tumbleweeds and saloon doors, with that same song playing every time a showdown is about to happen. High noon? Psh. How […]

Today on the B&N Teen blog, debut author Gita Trelease joins us to share her tips for research and worldbuilding in historical fantasy, along with her favorite recent reads.  When I was growing up, my history-loving mother would take me to see tumble-down forts and abandoned castles and ancient standing stones, dark forests grown up […]

If you like horses, heat, and a highly honed sense of justice, then it’s high time you picked up a western. Though it’s a bit of an under-explored YA genre, the good news is the YA westerns that do exist are really good. Start with Lyndsay Ely’s debut, Gunslinger Girl, out this month, then check out […]