Nothing gets a young reader’s heart hopping—and her hands flying through the pages—like a high-stakes story of survival. Whether set in a postapocalyptic wilderness, a quarantined mall, or a reimagined fantasy world, these books feature young people defying the odds and facing terrible dangers. They’ll thrill and delight their receivers, with propulsive stories that will carry […]
We all know the story: a little girl follows a rabbit down a hole and ends up in a magical world. As a kid, I was always kind of scared of Alice in Wonderland. I was as logical a five-year old as it was possible to be, and the idea of a world where logic […]
At the end of October each year, 17-year-old Cara’s family becomes inexplicably accident prone. It’s been that way for years, with many of these family accidents turning deadly.
What do you get when you toss together a bunch of the most brilliant, talented, and creeptastic authors of YA and put them in a single volume of short stories that begs to be read with the lights on? The answer is this summer’s hottest anthology, Slasher Girls & Monster Boys, which features stories by […]
I remember the first time I noticed the “Teen Paranormal Romance” section while shlepping my haul through the bookstore. It felt as if a new age was upon us, a classification born where before there was none. I waited for the revolution…but nothing has yet rocked my organizational world like the hottest thing since the […]
