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From the Bell Tower to the City Gates, Teens Review Titles by Kristen...
Our teen reviewers offer up a big dose of contemporary coming-of-age fiction, with just a dash of dystopia. The featured titles touch on teen suicide, PTSD, sexism, mental illness, and more. MAGGI,...
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Bewitching Readalikes for Joseph Delaney’s “The Last Apprentice” in Honor of...
The Witching Hour: Seventh Son Another reader-favorite young adult book series makes its big-screen debut on February 6. Based on Joseph Delaney’s “The Last Apprentice” (HarperCollins)...
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High Marks from Teens for Medieval Magic and McCloud’s “The Sculptor”
Science continues to surface in contemporary fiction, and titles with magical settings still hold their edge. Scott McCloud’s impactful graphic novel The Sculptor examines one man’s countdown through...
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Girl Power, High Fantasy, and Unconventional Lit | What’s Hot in YA
Fans of Kristen Cashore’s “Graceling” books (Dial) and Robin LaFevers’s “His Fair Assassins” novels (Houghton Harcourt) will find their next go-to series in Victoria Aveyard’s Red Queen, Arwen Elys...
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Teens Review Unique Coming-of-Age Novels and a High-Wire Mystery
The setting for The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley is the hospital pediatric ward, while Billy Kinsey in The Tragic Age deals with having a dysfunctional family by reading Heidegger. The Storyspinner, a...
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Top 2015 Titles for Youth in Custody—or in Your Libraries
After careful consideration and heated debate, the In the Margins (ITM) committee has selected its best fiction and nonfiction, top 10, and overall selection list of 34 titles. On February 18, we will...
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Teens Review New YA Fantasy by Rachel Hartman, Sarah J. Maas, and E.K. Johnston
SLJTeen’s new teen review group has pulled out all the stops for its inaugural column. We have eight reviews, including two very different opinions on Melinda Salisbury’s The Sin Eater’s Daughter. And...
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Growing Up in a Cult | SLJ Spotlight
There’s been such a rise of young adult novels set in cultlike environments that, however queasy-making, has been difficult to ignore. The teens in the following works grapple with coming of age in...
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Aliens, Mean Girls, and “Speak” Readalikes | What’s Hot in YA
From Michael Buckley’s alien-infested YA debut to poignant explorations of sexual violence and mental illness, the following titles for teens will keep young people coming back for more. Science...
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Heartrending YA Novels by Blockbuster Female Authors
Suicide, genocide, arranged marriages, and safaris-gone-wrong are on the menu in this selection of novels from the editors at Junior Library Guild. From fan favorites like Holly Black and Gayle Forman...
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Intelligent Machines: Robots in Film and Teen Fiction
You may not meet RoboCop, the Terminator, or R2D2 on the street any time soon, but the next generation of robots will represent a remarkable variety of designs and purposes. For example, the U.S. Navy...
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Teens Review the Latest from David Almond, Elizabeth Wein, and More
Elizabeth Wein and David Almond place readers in new and unusual settings in their latest offerings, Black Dove White Raven and The Tightrope Walkers. Power struggles are at the heart of Virginia...
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Secrets Sad and True in Henry Turner’s “Ask the Dark” | Interview
Billy Zeets’s life is far from perfect. His mother has recently died, leaving his family deeply in debt from medical bills. His father, desperately working at as many jobs as he can to pay the bills,...
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Teens Review “Twilight,” “Lord of the Rings” Readalikes, and More
None of the books on this list are quite like the other. Check out a second take on The Witch Hunter and an interesting twist on a dystopian society based on personal debt; in Hit, paybacks can be...
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Sexy Retellings, Alternative History, and Road Trip Novels | What’s Hot in YA
From Rosamunde Hodge’s latest fairy tale reimagining to Bill Konigsberg’s road trip YA, the following books for teens are among this year’s must-have titles. Nova Ren Suma’s The Walls Around Us,...
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Teens Review Beach Reads, Tearjerkers, and Humorous YA
With spring break and summer around the corner, YA readers can start gathering fun titles to read by the pool side, such as Heather Burch’s Summer by Summer or Amy Spalding’s hilarious Kissing Ted...
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Teens Review Michael Buckley’s YA Debut, Sarah Ockler’s Latest, and More
Sci-fi featuring aliens surfacing from the shores of Coney Island and a paranormal mystery with a Muslim American teen sleuth are just some of the titles the Kitsap (WA) Regional Library YA Book Group...
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Teens Review a Steampunk Sequel, a “Gone Girl”–Like YA, and More
The young adult reviewers, part of the Kitsap (WA) Regional Library YA book groups near Seattle, offer honest insight into some of the latest titles for teens. Paranormal romances don’t seem to be...
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Teens Review Murder Mysteries, a Feminist Cinderella, and a Noah Webster Bio
The reviewers from the Kitsap (WA) Regional Library YA Book Group share their thoughts on upcoming teen literature. From a creepy retelling of Edgar Allan Poe’s stories to an even scarier serial killer...
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Teens Review the Next “Fault in Our Stars,” a “Sweet” Horror Tale, and More
One young adult from the Kitsap (WA) Regional Library YA Book Group loved Tamara Ireland Stone’s Every Last Word so much, she had to write her review in capital letters to come close to capturing her...
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