Y.A. roundup: John Green, true crime story and a religious exploration reviewed
“Turtles All the Way Down” by John Green, Dutton, 304 pages, $19.99, ages 14 and up “Turtles All the Way Down” has a lot going for it: mystery, comedy, romance....
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National Book Award nominee ‘Far From the Tree’ and more reviewed in this week’s Y.A. roundup
"Far From the Tree" by Robin Benway, HarperTeen, 384 pages, $17.99, ages 12 and up "Far From the Tree," a 2017 National Book Award nominee for young people's literature, presents...
Latest from Francisco X. Stork, E. Lockhart and more featured in this week’s young-adult fiction roundup
"Disappeared" by Francisco X. Stork, 336 pages, Arthur A. Levine, $17.99, ages 12 and up Francisco X. Stork writes profound yet unpretentious young-adult novels that explore what it means to...
Brandy Colbert is back with ‘Little & Lion,’ plus more Y.A. fiction reviews
"Little & Lion" by Brandy Colbert, Little, Brown, 336 pages, $17.99, ages 15 and up Maintaining the standard set by her forceful debut, "Pointe," Brandy Colbert's second young-adult novel further...
‘The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue’ is a romp, plus more Y.A. reviews
"The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue" by Mackenzi Lee, Tegen, 528 pages, $18.99, ages 13 and up Young Lord Henry Montague envisions his upcoming grand tour — the 18th-century...
Young-adult fiction roundup: ‘When Dimple Met Rishi’ and more
"When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon, 384 pages, Simon Pulse, $17.99, ages 12 and up It's a meet-cute with a refreshing twist when Dimple Shah and Rishi Patel first...
Angie Thomas’ ‘The Hate U Give’ highlights young-adult fiction roundup
"The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas, Balzer + Bray, 464 pages, $17.99, ages 14 and up "A hairbrush is not a gun!" When protesters start this chant at the...
‘American Street’ leads young-adult roundup
"American Street" by Ibi Zoboi, Balzer + Bray, 336 pages, $17.99, age 14+ Fabiola, an American citizen by birth, has lived in Haiti since she was a baby. Now she...
The young adult book roundup
"Scythe" by Neal Shusterman, 448 pages, Simon and Schuster, $18.99, ages 12+ In this first book of Shusterman's ingenious new science-fiction trilogy, death, as one character succinctly puts it, "has...
3 new young adult books worth reading, including Nicola Yoon’s latest
"Radical" by E.M. Kokie, 448 pages, Candlewick Press, $17.99, ages 14 and up For 16-year-old Bex, dystopia isn't the stuff of YA fantasy novels. It's what she prepares for every...