Something incredible happens when a story is told in verse. Poetry carries its emotional heart to the front and center, telling a tale with fewer words than most authors can manage. When combined with narratives about a woman’s experience, this emotional heart becomes a one-two punch of raw emotion and exquisite storytelling. These YA verse […]
Some people are fantasy fanatics, some people swear by sci-fi, and some people find heaven in historical, but personally, I’m cuckoo for contemporary and all of its subgenres, from thrillers to coming of age to straight-up romance. If you’ve already devoured the contemps I was most excited about in the first half of the year, good […]
Given the sheer number of feminist YA gems, compiling a list of essentials is undoubtedly a foolhardy task—and yet we simply couldn’t help ourselves! Below you’ll find 50 of the most challenging, encouraging, and empowering feminist books YA has to offer. Some of these are modern-day classics, some are fresh off the press. Some are […]
Reproductive choices are a forever relevant topic, especially in YA, a category rife with stories about romance, sex, girlhood, empowerment, and coming of age. For teens in schools where abstinence is taught as the only choice of birth control, books like those below, which center around abortion, adoption, and/or teen parenthood, can provide vital education. […]
As part of our continued efforts to turn book recommendations into an alternate energy source that could power a small city, the B&N Teen Blog presents our blogger picks for best of 2016. Sorry and you’re welcome for exploding your to-be-read lists.