YABC: What surprised you most while writing your latest book? Andrea Young: My latest book was my first book. What surprised me the most was how incredibly fun it was to write it! I would totally get into my characters and their lives and live it while putting it on paper....

     

  Limited Time $1.99 Discount, The Jericho River   From March 12 to March 19, 2016, Winifred Press is offering $1.99 e­book copies of The Jericho River, A Novel About the History of Western Civilization , by David W. Tollen!     A fantasy novel that’s also a history, The Jericho...

Hi, YABCers! Today we're super excited to reveal the first chapter for Kristen-Paige Madonia's INVISIBLE FAULT LINES, releasing May 3, 2016 from Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers . Below, you can read the chapter and enter the giveaway! Ready to see? Scroll, YABCers! Scroll! ... ... ... ... ......

In case you missed the news, the official trailer for Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children made its debut today, and it's, well...peculiar to say the least. So what happens when the phenomenal literary world of Ransom Riggs meets the fantastical film world of Tim Burton? Watch the trailer below to...

Today we're putting a spotlight on Becky Wallace's soon-to-be release novel, The Skylighter . Read on for more about Becky, her novels, a deleted scene from Book One:  The Storyspinner , and a giveaway!   Meet Becky Wallace! In second grade, Becky Wallace had to sit in the corner because she...

Are you wondering what's new in YA  today? Check out these wonderful  new  releases!     Seventeen-year-old Anouk has finally caught the break she’s been looking for—she’s been selected out of hundreds of other candidates to fly to France and help with the excavation of a vast, underground palace buried a...

Here are a few of my favorite midde grade books that, once read, have stayed with me. I carry them around in my heart.--Alison McGhee     The Watsons Go to Birmingham , by Christopher Paul Curtis. I wish this book had been around when I was a little girl. Curtis...

YABC: What surprised you most while writing your latest book? Chandler Baker: Which character would present themselves as the main character for Book 2! When I went into drafting Teen Frankenstein , we knew High School Horror 2 would be a companion, picking up the thread of another character in the...

  The Atlantis Rising Series takes inspiration from the myth of Atlantis as Plato wrote it. He described the island as lush with vegetation, meadows, and streams. The original inhabitants lived simple lives. They were unique because of the equality in their economics, government, and justice. Seeing this as a virtue,...