This week’s new releases are all about clandestine love stories. A reimagining of Tristan and Iseult is set in Brooklyn, and a college girl with an Auditory Processing Disorder finds herself torn between her French tutor and her determination to study abroad, which would mean leaving him behind. Whether separated by a wall, a sports team, […]
Do you feel that? The tingles that accompany the return of some of YAs most notable, bestselling, hardhitting, gamechanging debut authors, here to dazzle with their second books? Sophomore novels are hard enough feats, but when you’re following up the amazingness these debuts had to offer, well. I’m pleased to report these authors have knocked it […]
Spring has sprung and with it comes an extravaganza of YA. March introduces readers to necromancers, dystopian technopaths, a lesbian werewolf, and the wonders of TropeTown, in which every citizen embodies a literary trope. Charlotte Holmes is back to investigate the crimes only she can solve, the sequel to Dhonielle Clayton’s The Belles is finally […]
As the conversation about diversifying our shelves (and the publishing industry as a whole) continues, it’s three steps forward, and two steps back. (See the still startling and disappointing numbers from the annual Lee & Low diversity in publishing survey, which reads quite bleak for 2018.) But more and more (and more, please!), publishers, editors […]
March’s new YA reads will appeal to book lovers of every genre, from fantasy and thrillers to heartfelt contemporaries. Matt de la Peña presents a teenage Man of Steel, Samira Ahmed tackles Islamophobia, and Mindy McGinnis provides a compelling look at opioid addiction. All this plus a new Charlotte Holmes mystery, and a love story about […]