YA New Releases
New Releases: Kidnappings, Alchemy, and Four Dead Queens
February may be the shortest month, but this final week is jampacked with new reads from both newbie authors and…
7 Reasons You’ll Fall in Love With Blanca & Roja
Critically acclaimed author Anna-Marie McLemore is back with Blanca & Roja, a decadent story about sisters and the wild magic…
On a Scale of 1 to The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein: Ranking the Darkness of Kiersten White
There’s always at least a bit of darkness in Kiersten White’s books, and sometimes a lot. In honor of her…
Don Zolidis on How The Seven Torments of Amy and Craig Brought His First Love Back into His Life
Don Zolidis’ debut, The Seven Torments of Amy and Craig, is not your typical love story: from the first page,…
Lie to Me: I, Claudia Author Mary McCoy on the Irresistible Appeal of Unreliable Narrators
Mary McCoy’s I, Claudia is out today, a high school–set, YA riff on Robert Graves’ I, Claudius, a beloved masterwork of political…
In Laini Taylor’s Muse of Nightmares, Grief, Godspawn, and Learning to Forgive
Are you ready to return to a world where guilt and grief are tied together in a never-ending circle, and…
Kiersten White on Her New Book, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, and the Survival Narrative at the Heart of Frankenstein
Kiersten White’s latest, The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein, is the chilling story of a girl whose life depends on…
We Regret to Inform You Author Ariel Kaplan Shares the Inspiration Behind Her Dark College Application Comedy
Ariel Kaplan’s We Regret to Inform You, out today, follows high-achieving high school student-turned-sleuth Mischa Abramavicius, who smells a rat…
The Last Best Story Author Maggie Lehrman on the Best Banter in YA
Maggie Lehrman’s The Last Best Story is out today, the tale of two high school journalists stuck in “will they,…
The Campfire Author Shawn Sarles on How His Debut Came to Be
In Campfire, out today from Shawn Sarles, teen girl Maddie spends a night sitting around a campfire with friends and family,…
Karen McManus Shares the Story Behind the B&N Exclusive Edition of One of Us Is Lying
Karen McManus’s One of Us Is Lying hit shelves just over a year ago. Since then the taut, multi-voice thriller,…
Engaged Coauthors Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka on the Young Love Story Behind Always Never Yours
Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka know from young love: the pair, now engaged, had their own friends-to-love romance in high…
Mark Oshiro’s Debut Anger Is A Gift Delivers A Powerful Punch
Mark Oshiro’s much-hyped Anger Is A Gift is an intricately built but deceptively straightforward addition to the canon of novels…
Bobby Sky: Boy Band or Die Author Joe Shine on How He Became a Reader (and Writer)
In Joe Shine’s Bobby Sky: Boy Band or Die, charming delinquent Hutch has broken the law one time too many…
Pacifica Author Kristen Simmons on the Terrifying Science Behind her New Novel
In a future world destroyed by the humans who live on it, Pacifica is a promised land: an edenic island…
Emily X.R. Pan’s debut novel The Astonishing Color of After Soars
In Emily X.R. Pan’s debut novel, Leigh Chen Sanders feels things in color. The “cold cerulean” of grief, the “puke…
Twelve Steps to Normal Author Farrah Penn on Fanfic, Loss, and the Path to Publication
In Farrah Penn’s debut novel, Twelve Steps to Normal, Kira is a child of an alcoholic parent, who uses the…
Dhonielle Clayton’s Lush The Belles Is Must-Read Dystopian Fantasy
Now that she and her sisters are sixteen, the moment The Belles‘ heroine, Camellia, has been waiting for her entire…
