One may need to be 18 to vote in the United States, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t lots of ways for minors to get involved in politics. Whether they’re diving into that complicated world of their own volition, or thrust into it by parents with political ambitions, the teens in these books are all in the […]
In Lori Goldstein’s debut novel Becoming Jinn, teenaged Azra wakes on her 16th birthday to a life of servitude: she’s come into her birthright as a beautiful, powerful jinn, destined to grant wishes and obey her Afrit overlords. In between coming to terms with her destiny, she works at the beach, juggles two love interests, […]
In Tonight the Streets are Ours, out tomorrow, Leila Sales introduces us to Arden, a good girl and fiercely loyal friend whose tendency toward self-sacrifice borders on martyrdom. When she discovers a New York boy’s confessional blog, Tonight the Streets are Ours, she’s swept up into his story of epic love and heartbreak. And after suffering a humiliating emotional […]
As a primarily contemporary reader, nothing excites me on the eve of a new year like the promise of new stories of brutal realism, light romance, psychological thrill rides, and everything in between. Being that contemporary is my absolute favorite genre, my “must-read” list is far longer than this, but apparently it’s frowned upon to […]
The B&N Teen bloggers weigh in on the YA books that knocked us flat in 2015.