Celebrate Pride month by reading any of the recommended Young Adult novels with outstanding Trans rep.  Know of any other titles? Recommend them in the comments. Let's grow our TBR's.     Pet by Akwaeke Emezi [yabookscentral.com] Pet is here to hunt a monster. Are you brave enough to look? There...

We don’t know about you, but even though we’re in a pandemic, we’re looking forward to SAFELY driving with the windows down listening to some great music. From BTS to the Backstreet Boys, boy bands serve some serious bangers to vibe and jam to. These YA novels give us serious concert...

2020 was a whirlwind for a lot of us, and we don't know about you, but books have been our saving grace--and continue to be our saving grace. Today, we're listing our staff favorites of 2020 and why we dug them! Let us know in the comments some of your favorites...

It's officially NaNoWriMo: National Novel Writing Month! If you're a writer, or if you just love books and writers, like we do—check out this short list of YA novels featuring teen writers!     1. Final Draft by Riley Redgate       Laila Piedra doesn’t drink, doesn’t smoke, and definitely...

1. Furia  by Yamile Saied Mendez A powerful, #ownvoices contemporary YA for fans of The Poet X and I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter set in Argentina, about a rising soccer star who must put everything on the line—even her blooming love story—to follow her dreams. In Rosario, Argentina, Camila...

Romance Awareness Month: Travel Back in time with these 8 "Historic" Young Adult Historical Romance Titles. 1. My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand For fans of The Princess Bride comes the comical, fantastical, romantical, (not) entirely true story of Lady Jane Grey. Lady Jane Grey, sixteen, is about to be married...

All great young adult novels have noteworthy villains. These villains aren’t always flesh and blood; sometimes they’re otherworldly, and sometimes they’re the characters own internal struggles. Whatever they are, we’ve listed 6 of the most notable villains in a series.  Mila 2.0 Series      Link to book one. Mila 2.0...

Entwined by A.J. Rosen     Sometimes love gets a bit twisted. Avery Montgomery doesn’t even know if she wants a soul mate. As a member of the Hellenicus—a race founded in antiquity and descended directly from the Greek gods—Avery’s attending her first Gathering where she’ll gain the ability to entwine...

Social media has taken the world by storm and has held it captive in its proverbial claws. Whether you prefer Facebook over Twitter, or Instagram over the both of them—most of us start our day with social media. Below are 5 “social-media” YA titles worth tweeting or posting about. 1.One of...

Young Adult Novels boomed years ago, but some of you still haven’t taken the dive into the genre. Maybe, you’re just now old enough to read them, or you’re an adult who feels like there’s nothing for you in a bunch of books about teens. If you’re one of those people,...