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 […]
Fans of Cassandra Claire’s bestselling Mortal Instruments series let out a collective squee when Freeform resurrected the franchise’s onscreen potential after the film didn’t do so great. Enter the Shadowhunters TV show, giving fans another chance to see their favorite characters from City of Bones in as close to real life as possible. The series has me thinking: what […]
The release of the first Divergent movie is just around the corner, and we’ve been keeping warm with film trailers, movie news, and shots of Shailene Woodley looking like the Tris of our collective dreams. But readers who’ve long since blazed through trilogy ender Allegiant may still be suffering the four stages of series withdrawal: denial, […]
We’ve already declared that Lauren Oliver’s latest novel, Panic, is helping make March an amazing month for YA lit. But we couldn’t just leave it at that. Oliver’s story of kids in a fictional rundown New York town, competing in a dangerous summer-long game of chicken (called Panic), features descriptions and characters so evocative, they’ll […]
Graduation, whether you’re exiting high school, college, graduate school, or even kindergarten, can be an emotionally confusing time. Moving forward, after all, always means leaving something behind. It can be exciting to envision a new future for yourself, even as it can be painful to think of what that future will mean giving up. Luckily […]
