Add I Was Here to Gayle Forman’s List Of Sexy-As-Hell Coming-Of-Age Page Turners
Some good, tear-jerking books make you want to curl up in a ball all day, rereading passages and mourning everything…
Sabrina Rojas Weiss
The Most Romantic Books To Buy The Teen (And Grownup) YA Fans In Your Life
Teen romance is one of the hottest categories on the shelves—and has been, arguably, since the days of “Romeo and…
Explore Cassandra Clare’s Magically Gritty, Dangerously Romantic World
Do you like a little romance with your action? A touch of New York grit with your demon slaying? A little…
The Bane Chronicles, from Cassandra Clare
Sometimes we read fantasy for its intense themes and motifs: star-crossed love, scary battles, heroes and heroines making hard choices. Sometimes we…
The Fall Dares To Out-Haunt Poe, And Three Other YA Retellings of Classics
As long as there are English classes and mandatory curricula, our teen years will be spent reading more classic literature than…
Egg & Spoon and Other Modern Spins on Old Tales
Sometimes we forget that all those books about witches, vampires, werewolves, and fairies are basically based on tales people used to…
This Season’s Best Fantasy and Adventure Books for Teens
Diving into the fantasy fiction genre is exhilarating—there are so many wizards, princesses, orphans, faeries, and dragons to spend time with. Whether your giftee…
Blue Lily, Lily Blue Author Maggie Stiefvater Tells Us What She’d Wish For From A Magical King
More than once, while reading Blue Lily, Lily Blue, I paused to silently thank Maggie Stiefvater for making the Raven Cycle a…
Belzhar and More of Our Favorite Boarding-School Novels
Is there any teen out there who doesn’t occasionally fantasize about being sent off to school far, far away from their…
Meg Wolitzer’s YA Debut, Belzhar, Turns Grief Into A Special Realm
Who isn’t emotionally fragile at some point in their teen years? And who doesn’t long to be picked out of…
8 Essential Elements of a Juicy YA Love Triangle
Rebecca Serle’s Famous in Love (out next month) is a deliciously meta YA novel: aspiring actress Paige Townsen lands her dream…
A Little Something Different Took A Very Different Path To Publication
The process of writing and selling a novel is supposed to be hard. It’s supposed to take years of trial…
Sinner Author Maggie Stiefvater Gets Real…With Rock-Star Werewolves In L.A.
If you’ve never opened a Maggie Stiefvater novel, and have only read the synopses of her books, you might think…
Wordless Picture Books: Leap Into Storytime Without A Net
I love reading aloud. I was always the first one in class to raise my hand when a read-along opportunity…
Maybe John Green Is Today’s Judy Blume After All
John Green loves Judy Blume. In fact, in this video from 2007, he tells his brother she’s on his celebrity…
In Search of Today’s Judy Blume: Why Gayle Forman’s Novels Fit The Bill
For some of us—okay, for three generations of kids who loved reading—Judy Blume is untouchable. Name something tough, or confusing,…
Buying A Gift For Baby’s First Birthday? 5 Things Parents Wish You Knew
Did your friends all decide to have kids without you? Are you a new parent suddenly finding yourself going to…
3 Dystopian Trilogies That Are Every Bit as Exciting as Divergent
When Veronica Roth’s Divergent came out at the height of the Hunger Games–inspired mania for dystopian YA, what made it stand…
Don’t Panic: Lauren Oliver Wants An End To Big Proclamations On The State Of YA
We’ve already declared that Lauren Oliver’s latest novel, Panic, is helping make March an amazing month for YA lit. But…
5 Novels We Wish Would Become TV Shows
Big-screen book-to-movie adaptations only have about two hours to bring every plot detail and quote from a beloved book series…