11 YA Authors on the Book That Changed Their Life
It’s a truism by now to say that books change lives. But it’s also an everyday miracle, the knowledge that…
Melissa Albert
1980s-Set Books to Read After the New Stranger Things Trailer Sends You Down a Nostalgia Rabbithole
Malls and monsters, glamour shots and aerobicizing, neon lights and everyone’s dad Steve Harrington in a jaunty sailor suit: who…
Natasha Ngan and Courtney Summers Talks Girls of Paper and Fire, Sadie and More
In a world divided among three castes—demon Moon, demon-human Steel, and the lowest caste, fully human Paper—Lei is a Paper…
Teens Share the Last YA Book They Loved: Retelling Rumpelstiltskin, Surviving the Patriarchy, and Getting Kicked out of Fairyland
Meet the Young Adults, the B&N Teen Blog’s swat team of awesome teenaged bloggers. YA literature is a strange and…
Books Are Magic: A NaNoWriMo Reading List
Tomorrow marks the start of National Novel Writing Month, during which thousands of intrepid souls will take on the quixotic…
Fantasy Authors Laura E. Weymouth and Margaret Rogerson on Subverted Myths, Favorite Poems, and the Fair Folk
Today marks the release of Laura E. Weymouth’s The Light Between Worlds, in which a trio of siblings is transported…
Teens Share the Last Book They Loved: Meet-Cutes, Virtual Worlds, and Binding the Souls of the Dead
Meet the Young Adults, the B&N Teen Blog’s swat team of awesome teenaged bloggers. YA literature is a strange and…
13 YA Authors on How They Find (Forge, Carve Out, Sacrifice For) the Time to Write
Anyone pursuing creative work with any level of seriousness has heard the question: “How do you find the time?” They…
Kiersten White on Her New Book, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, and the Survival Narrative at the Heart of Frankenstein
Kiersten White’s latest, The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein, is the chilling story of a girl whose life depends on…
Escaping from Houdini Author Kerri Maniscalco talks Card Tricks, Flipping Tropes, and Devil’s Deals with Stephanie Garber
Across three books and counting, Kerri Maniscalco has followed the adventures of Audrey Rose Wadsworth, whose fascination with dead bodies…
Teen Readers Share the Last Book They Loved: Changing Neighborhoods, Toppled Kings, and Heretics United
Meet the Young Adults, the B&N Teen Blog’s swat team of awesome teenaged bloggers. YA literature is a strange and…
These Rebel Waves Author Sara Raasch and For a Muse of Fire Author Heidi Heilig Talk Revolution and Magic
Today Sara Raasch kicks off a new high fantasy adventure with These Rebel Waves, set in a world where a cold…
The Last Best Story Author Maggie Lehrman on the Best Banter in YA
Maggie Lehrman’s The Last Best Story is out today, the tale of two high school journalists stuck in “will they,…
The Cheerleaders Author Kara Thomas Talks with Karen McManus About the Resurgence of the YA Thriller
Kara Thomas’s The Cheerleaders is the tangled tale of a trio of cold cases that heat up five years later:…
The Campfire Author Shawn Sarles on How His Debut Came to Be
In Campfire, out today from Shawn Sarles, teen girl Maddie spends a night sitting around a campfire with friends and family,…
17 YA Fantasy Authors on the Fantasy Novels That Inspired Them
It takes a lot of books to make a book, and you can safely bet your favorite fantasy author grew…
Teen Readers Share the Last Book They Loved: Best Burgers, Raspberry-Sorbet Reads, and How to Be Down But Not Out
Meet the Young Adults, the B&N Teen Blog’s swat team of awesome teenaged bloggers. YA literature is a strange and…