This week’s most exciting new releases include a brutal tale of survival and betrayal set in a Rome-esque empire, a body-swapping fantasy that imagines a world above the clouds, and a star-crossed romance orchestrated by Love and Death. These are the books we’re throwing away our phones for right now:
We’re living in a YA golden age, with loads of diverse, funny, smart, sad, joyous, illuminating books hitting the shelves each week. We all have a list of books that comforted us, exhilarated us, and even saved us when we were teen readers, those fortuitous bookstore and library finds that spoke directly to our budding brains. But with the benefit […]
One of our favorite things to zero in on here at the B&N Teen Blog is YA’s that “Get it Right,” i.e. that seem to perfectly portray some element of the human experience. As new YAs emerge, we get to add more and more of them to the small but illustrious list, though of course, there […]
Welcome back to another edition of YAs That Get it Right, in which pros weigh in on YA books they think nailed an aspect of the human experience. Since May is Mental Health Awareness Month, I asked some of my favorite authors of mental health YA, as well as (and including) authors who are also […]