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6 YA Reads for Russophiles
Whether your fascination with Russia is its rich history, unique architecture, fur-tastic fashion, fraught history with the U.S., or something else entirely, YA may just have something that speaks to...
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6 YAs to Read After You’ve Binge-Watched Orange Is the New Black
Was that you I just saw at Walgreens, stocking up on Visine, coffee beans, and pretzel sticks? (And was that a stadium pal hiding behind your back?) We’re all preparing for our Orange Is the New Black...
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16 YA Gateway Reads, Genre by Genre
You’re stuck in a funk. You’re tired of reading the same old rehashed storyline, but you’re scared to break out of your comfort genre and give something else a shot—after all, you never know what kind...
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14 of Our Most Anticipated Historical Fiction YAs of 2016
This year’s crop of give-me-now historical fiction includes the second release from one of our favorite debut novelists of 2015, a heroine-heavy anthology from an all-female authorial crew, and an...
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Ruta Sepetys’ Salt to the Sea Is a Turbulent, Beautiful Journey
A pro tip, before you read Ruta Sepetys’ Salt to the Sea: Don’t read the Wikipedia page for the Wilhelm Gustloff. That is, unless you enjoy your fiction with a side helping of ice-cold dread. The...
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30 of Our Most Anticipated February YA Books
February is the kind of month that makes a YA lover skip their own birthday party/doctor’s appointment/dog’s wedding in order to have more reading time, and use up all their lunch money for book...
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New Releases: Vengeful Girls, Scavenger Boys, and a New Kind of Neverland
Salt to the Sea, by Ruta Sepetys Master historical fiction writer Sepetys returns to World War II for the first time since Between Shades of Gray. Narration is shared among three refugees—a pregnant,...
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16 YA Authors Discuss Eating Disorders, Family, and More in February’s YA...
YA Open Mic is a monthly series in which YA authors share personal stories on topics of their choice. The aim of the series, above all, is to peel away the formality of bios and offer authors a...
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Ruta Sepetys Takes Us Behind the Scenes of Salt to the Sea
Last month, we fell in love with Salt to the Sea, Ruta Sepetys’ historical novel about four young people whose fates converge aboard a doomed German transport ship at the end of World War II. And...
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The Best Young Adult Books of 2016
It’s the happiest, hardest day in the bookish calendar, when all the past year’s most glorious reads are winnowed down into a list of the best of the best books to cross my desk in 2016. Here there be...
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14 Teen Readers Share the Last Book They Loved: Heartbreak, Elemental Magic,...
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...
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6 Historical YA Novels in Which #ShePersisted
Feminist YA is one of my absolute favorite categories, so much so that I wrote my senior thesis in college about it. And while a lot of the focus on feminist YA today is in contemporary works, the...
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The Downstairs Girl Author Stacey Lee on Must-Read Historical Fiction
Perhaps the toughest genre for even the most seasoned writer to explore is historical fiction. When done right, it’s intensely complex and well-researched, but told in a seamless, well-paced rhythm...
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Our Most Anticipated Historical Fiction for the Second Half of 2019
Historical fiction is one of YA’s most underappreciated genres, as anyone who’s tried to research exactly how characters would’ve “turned on the lights” in a room in any given century can tell you, but...
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33 of October’s Best YA Reads
October is such a delicious reading month, because you just know so many of these books were meant to consumed with apple cider, trick-or-treating, and general autumnal merriment and spookiness....
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7 YAs to Read After Ruta Sepetys’ The Fountains of Silence
November’s YA book club read, The Fountains of Silence, by #1 New York Times bestselling author Ruta Sepetys, is set in 1950s Madrid, under the fascist dictatorship of Francisco Franco, as 18-year-old...
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