8 YA Novels for Fans of Avatar: The Last Airbender
It’s finally here. The best thing in July isn’t the summer heat or the third season of Stranger Things. It’s the…
Fangirling
11 YA Authors on the Book That Changed Their Life
It’s a truism by now to say that books change lives. But it’s also an everyday miracle, the knowledge that…
1980s-Set Books to Read After the New Stranger Things Trailer Sends You Down a Nostalgia Rabbithole
Malls and monsters, glamour shots and aerobicizing, neon lights and everyone’s dad Steve Harrington in a jaunty sailor suit: who…
Teens Share the Last YA Book They Loved: Retelling Rumpelstiltskin, Surviving the Patriarchy, and Getting Kicked out of Fairyland
Meet the Young Adults, the B&N Teen Blog’s swat team of awesome teenaged bloggers. YA literature is a strange and…
Teen Readers Share the Last Book They Loved: Changing Neighborhoods, Toppled Kings, and Heretics United
Meet the Young Adults, the B&N Teen Blog’s swat team of awesome teenaged bloggers. YA literature is a strange and…
YAs That Get it Right: Depression Edition
Welcome to another edition of YAs That Get it Right, which is all about YA books that truly nail an…
Teen Readers Share the Last Book They Loved: Best Burgers, Raspberry-Sorbet Reads, and How to Be Down But Not Out
Meet the Young Adults, the B&N Teen Blog’s swat team of awesome teenaged bloggers. YA literature is a strange and…
Happy Graduation! Love, YA Books
Graduation, whether you’re exiting high school, college, graduate school, or even kindergarten, can be an emotionally confusing time. Moving forward,…
Marisha Pessl’s Neverworld Wake Is a Shape-Shifting Binge Read
Some stories are all in the setup: what you need to know about their plot is in the teaser copy,…
7 Books to Read If You’re Still Recovering from Avengers: Infinity War
Marvel didn’t pull any punches when it released its latest film on (fairly) unsuspecting viewers. Avengers: Infinity War, a project…
Teen Readers Share the Last Book They Loved: Staying In, Coming Out, and Rewriting History
Meet the Young Adults, the B&N Teen Blog’s swat team of awesome teenaged bloggers. YA literature is a strange and…
10 of the Truest YA Quotes About Heartache
Hearts can break over so many things, it makes them seem awfully fragile. They can break over losing love, or…
10 of the Truest YA Quotes About the Future
Books are time machines. They can show us the past, they can paint potential futures. A book from our childhood…
Teen Readers Share the Last Books They Loved: Artistic Creation, Life on the Inside, and a Painter’s Story in Verse
Meet the Young Adults, the B&N Teen Blog’s swat team of awesome teenaged bloggers. YA literature is a strange and…
How Harry Potter Changed the World
This year marks the twentieth anniversary of the publication of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. That means we’ve all spent…
Celebrating the (Not So) Sweet Sixteen of Sloppy Firsts
I wasn’t old enough to meet Jessica “Not-So” Darling when she first arrived on the scene in 2001—the fictional protagonist…
7 Children’s Book Characters Who Need a YA Book
What are the old books you keep on your shelf? The ones you’ll always take with you no matter how…
6 Harry Potter Plot Revelations You May Not Have Caught the First 10 Times Through
If you’re anything like me, you’ve read the Harry Potter books somewhere in the neighborhood of eight thousand times—soon to…
10 of Our Favorite (Spoiler-Free!) Last Lines
We might not all judge books by their covers, but we definitely judge them by their first sentences. When your…