This week in YA is a bonanza for fans of fairy-tale mashups, true crime retellings, and historical fantasy, especially if you like stories focused on sibling relationships and complex friendships. Contemporary realism lovers are covered as well, with dynamic duo Rachel Cohn and David Levithan releasing a fresh collaboration, and Jason Reynolds offering up a book-length […]
The weather’s less gross (for those of us in gross-weather parts of the world), the great books keep coming, and life is good! Put on your SPF 5,000 (the kind they recommend for bookish types crawling out of their winter hovels), break out your jorts way too early, and check out 25 amazing books that are […]
Two heroines are at the center of Hillyer’s Sleeping Beauty retelling Spindle Fire, royal half-sisters who’ve each lost something to the brutal fae who tithe things from the humans under their sway: Isabelle, the king’s bastard daughter, has lost her sight, and Aurora, his daughter by the queen, lost both her sense of touch and her […]
Meet the Young Adults, the B&N Teen Blog’s swat team of awesome teenaged bloggers. YA literature is a strange and wonderful landscape of books that should be read by everybody, but each month we highlight the perspective of the teens reading the best of the best books written for and about them. Check back monthly to see what they’re […]