For Claudia Gray, the author of Star Wars: Bloodline, Lost Stars, and the bestselling Evernight young adult series, the joy of writing started with fanfiction.
There is so much to love about April’s YA books—especially because so many of them are about love, both queer and straight. Whether you prefer fantasy quests, realistic contemporary dramas, rom-coms, or historical fiction (the 1990s!), you’re certain to find the perfect spring read to make your heart pound from excitement, mystery, and feels.
This week in YA, love is in the air, whether inside a chic boutique or outside under a meteor shower. Zombies also abound, from Reconstruction-era U.S. to 1920s England. Lastly, the 1980s and 1990s called, and they have wisdom to impart. [ean1Rebound, by Kwame Alexander A prequel novel in verse to 2015 Newbery winner The Crossover, Rebound invites us […]
It’s a new year, which means a new spacefaring lineup of awesome YA sci-fi to take you to other worlds and galaxies! Here are twelve forthcoming YA sci-fis heading your way in the first six months of 2018, featuring space pirates, alien wars, wormholes, cybernetic bounty hunters, sentient spaceships, Star Wars–style action-romance, and so much […]
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 teens reading the best of the best books written for and about them. Check back monthly to see what they’re recommending […]