5 Historical Fiction YAs Featuring Intrepid Female Protagonists
YA heroines, like their real-world counterparts, face off against a range of challenges, from finding themselves to navigating friendships to…
Roundups
8 Socially Conscious YA Books to Read Right Now
Angie Thomas’s stunning and socially-minded The Hate U Give has held court at the top of the New York Times YA…
The Wicked Deep, and 6 More YA Books Set in Spooky Small Towns
Secrets, secrets are no fun, except when they’re consuming a small town you yourself are nowhere near. Spooky stories take…
16 New and Upcoming Retellings of Classic Plays, Novels, and Tales
There are some tales I’ll never get tired of reading: that of the mermaid princess, the heartbroken beast, the girl…
Gunslinger Girl, and 5 More Must-Read YA Westerns
If you like horses, heat, and a highly honed sense of justice, then it’s high time you picked up a…
8 YAs About Defying Parental Expectations
When I was a teenager, one of the lines my mom—an immigrant, a doctor, an entrepreneur, a woman who balanced…
5 Must-Read YA Books for Black Mirror Fans
I’ve been obsessed with Black Mirror since it popped up in my Netflix queue a few years ago. Like a…
9 of the Best Meet Cutes in YA History
There’s lots to love about a good fictional relationship: the flirting, the breakups, the makeups, the happy endings, the sad…
6 YA Novels That Take Place in a Single Day
Slow burns are nice, but sometimes you want book with a little less backstory and a little more hurry—the kind…
Brown and Proud: 11 Books from the South Asian Diaspora To Read Right Now
When I was a kid, I never saw myself on the page. Like never. Occasionally, there’d be a brown person…
8 YA Books Filled With Holiday Spirit
It’s Christmas! Please imagine me in a fuzzy robe with a big mug of cocoa, a tree with twinkling lights…
Three Sides of a Heart Editor Natalie C. Parker Shares 5 Types of YA Love Triangles
The B&N Teen blog welcomes author Natalie C. Parker to the blog this week to talk triangle, twisty, sticky and swoonworthy! The…
7 Reasons Why Winter is Perfect for Reading Fairy Tales
From the original tales to countless retellings, I love anything and everything fairy tale related. The last several years have…
5 Snow White Retellings to Get You Ready for Winter
With winter coming, there’s one thing everybody can rely on: snow. Even if you’re not in an area that gets…
6 Incredible Animal Friends in YA Fiction
Have you ever watched a cute video of a puppy rolling around or a kitten learning to meow and thought,…
Go to Boarding School with Alyssa Sheinmel and R.I.P. Eliza Hart and 5 Other Must Reads!
Full disclosure: unlike the characters in my new book, R.I.P. Eliza Hart, I did not attend boarding school. Still, I’ve…
20 YA Authors Share the Book They’re Most Thankful For
We all have a lot to be grateful for in our lives. But writers (and readers, to be honest), in…
6 of the Best YA Books with Family on the Page
Families (and parents in particular) are often conspicuously absent from YA books. There are usually excellent reasons for this—character development,…
8 Must Read YAs In Verse
I was going to introduce this amazing lineup of diverse books in narrative verse in free verse of my own,…
6 Diverse Historical YA Must Reads Now In Paperback!
Historical novels, as a genre, can be a hard thing to leap into. They’ve got the lush worldbuilding of fantasy…