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Kingdom, the first in Tahereh Mafi's series inspired by Persian mythology; and I'm reading Erin Stewart's young adult novel The Words We Keep. Threads, is scheduled for publication next month. 03 The Words We Keep by Erin Stewart In Erin Stewart's young adult novel The Words We Keep, Lily has been trying to hold it all together since walking in on her

By tracking back to her youth and young-adult years and alternating with scenes from more recent life

Rachel Lynn Solomon crafts another sweet, quirky, funny, romantic young adult story that plays with time and irresistible premises that play with time, as in her Groundhog Day -type setup for this romantic young adult story. Solomon is also the author of The Ex Talk, Weather Girl, and the wonderful young adult Today Tonight prepublication digital edition of this book (published last week) courtesy of Simon & Schuster Books for Young

by Lauren Grodstein; and I'm listening to How to End a Love Story, a story by Yulin Kuang about two young adults whose paths cross years after being tied together by a tragic death. Now a successful young-adult author, shy Helen is excited to be part of the adaptation of her work into

The Box in the Woods is another smart, funny, intriguing young adult mystery from Maureen Johnson. Stevie is recruited by a young entrepreneur with a passion for true-crime podcasts to revisit a murder (And Nate might even be writing again, if his irritating young superfan camper Lucas has anything to Maureen Johnson also wrote the young adult Shades of London series, which is based on Jack the Ripper's

Summers's young adult fiction begins with a fascinating premise--sisters are torn apart by tragedy and My book club recently read this suspenseful young adult book by Courtney Summers. In The Project, Lo and Bea are young sisters whose parents die in a car accident. In a classic Mom-Reads-a-Young-Adult-Book disconnect, I found myself repeatedly distracted by Lo's jarringly Summers is also the author of Sadie, Some Girls Are, This Is Not a Test, and other young adult books.

She's young and hungry--and thrilled that she's about to get her first really big client. Gwen & Art Are Not in Love by Lex Croucher Lex Croucher's queer medieval rom-com--the author's debut young-adult became pregnant by (and married) her beloved high school sweetheart--and after Jo moved in with the young adult rom-com pits high school nemeses against each other: one relentless perfectionist and people-pleaser This young adult story is sweet and fun; the pacing often feels somewhat slapstick and frantic--as is

Emily Henry's Happy Place, scheduled for release April 25; and I'm reading the first in Tracy Deonn's young adult fantasy series, Legendborn. Legendborn is the first in Tracy Deonn's young adult Legendborn Cycle series.

remember the joy of the past and accept the beauty in the present with her aging parents and her growing young-adult

adult rom-com about fake relationships, allowing vulnerability, and living as your true self; and Silver in the Bone, the first in Alexandra Bracken's young adult fantasy series of the same name, which offers In Ann Liang's young adult rom-com This Time It's Real, when seventeen-year-old Eliza's class essay about adult fantasy series, but what hooked me was the fearless, hardened, fiercely loyal, savvy, and crafty In Alexandra Bracken's young adult novel Silver in the Bone, sorceresses and dark magical beings populate

She's struggling both emotionally and financially as she tries to support her two young children. One of my favorite elements is how Finlay, a mom of two very young children, is absolutely irresistible Cosimano is also the author of the young adult mystery series Nearly Gone, the young adult fantasy series Seasons of the Storm, and the young adult books Holding Smoke and The Suffering Tree.

The sequel to Long's young adult fantasy/science fiction debut Cold the Night, Fast the Wolves takes Long's first novel was Cold the Night, Fast the Wolves, a science fiction novel about Sena, a tough young Years earlier, Remy failed to protect her young charge, and now she's determined to locate the grown-up young woman and secure her safety. You might like other young adult books I've reviewed on the site; you can check them out here.

Comedian Leanne Morgan's memoir traces her path from an attention-seeking, beloved young girl to a young adult facing missteps and disappointment, through her unlikely journey to stand-up, to the embracing

historical fiction story with magical elements; I'm reading the wonderful Ann Liang's soon-to-be-published young adult rom-com, I Hope This Doesn't Find You; and I'm listening to a historical fiction mystery based , Del Rey. 02 I Hope This Doesn't Find You by Ann Liang I fell in love with Ann Liang's fake-dating young adult novel This Time It's Real, read it in one rainy afternoon, and included it in my Greedy Reading

The Ex Talk , and Today, Tonight, Tomorrow . 05 Better Than the Movies by Lynn Painter I LOVED this young adult book. Lynn Painter's adorable young adult rom-com Better Than the Movies is about Liz Buxbaum, a fabulously the growth, the banter, the heartbreaking, heartwarming growth, the fun--this is basically a perfect young adult romantic comedy.

In Marie Lu's young adult dystopian series starter Legend, the Republic and Colonies war with each other , a plague separates the haves from the have-nots, and young people fighting to find out the truth might In Marie Lu's young adult Legend, the first in the dystopian series of the same name, the west of the Lu is the author of multiple young adult series (Legend, Warcross, The Young Elites, and Skyhunter) as well as the stand-alone adult novel The Kingdom of Back.

Return of Ellie Black , Detective Chelsey Calhoun is shocked by the reappearance of Ellie Black, a young While Chelsey struggles to be patient with the young woman who is coping with layers of trauma, she realizes Emiko Jean is also the author of the great young adult stories Tokyo Ever After and Tokyo Dreaming

In the second book in Emiko Jean's fun young adult series, princess Izzy balances pressures, privilege In Emiko Jean's young adult story Tokyo Ever After, we met Izumi (Izzy) Tanaka, an everyday, average The biggest news is that her parents--once young star-crossed lovers, now mature grown-ups ready to build

self-obsessed and sloppy, and he's allowed himself to become distant from his only living daughter, now a young adult who's drifting in her life. But before he can set out for Arizona to try to win back his young love, his estranged brother dies,

it's 1930 in the Kentucky Appalachians, and Amanda Rye is a traveling packhorse librarian, a widowed young The MacInteers--tough yet tender mother Rai, her clever daughter Sass, playful young adult Finn, and

Before he can set out for Arizona to try to win back his young love, his estranged brother dies, and Green In John Green's nonfiction book Everything Is Tuberculosis , he tells his story of befriending a young Anthropocene Reviewed (which was one of my six favorite nonfiction reads the year I read it) as well as the young adult novels An Abundance of Katherines, Turtles All the Way Down, The Fault in Our Stars, Looking for

Nothing; I mentioned the great Folk of the Air trilogy in the Greedy Reading List Six Royally Magical Young Adult Series.

In Skyhunter, the first book in Marie Lu's young adult Skyhunter duology, Lu offered complex motivations In Blanchet's young adult fantasy debut, Herrick's End, Ollie's only friend Gwen has disappeared. In this young adult novel, the first in a magical fairy tale duology from Elizabeth Lim, main protagonist adult story follows irresistible, hardheaded, wonderfully faulted Tess as she breaks from rigid medieval powers (yet maintains her new, successful career as a children's author--with promise of becoming an adult

Next Read involve answering a few questions about your tolerance for violence, rough language, and adult (Note that there is also a Find Your Next Read request form for Young Readers and Teens.) Three other titles suggested to me as promising adult and young adult science fiction, fantasy, and dystopian

The first in the series sets up a strong young Black heroine who bucks tradition as she explores her Legendborn, with its Arthurian references, during the same period I was reading another (very different) young adult book with references to Arthur and his court, Silver in the Bone. independent network of magic, inheritance, bucking expectations, and pending danger for her strong young Legendborn is the first in Tracy Deonn's young adult Legendborn Cycle series.

01 Better Than the Movies by Lynn Painter I LOVED this young adult book. Lynn Painter's adorable young adult rom-com Better Than the Movies is about Liz Buxbaum, a fabulously the growth, the banter, the heartbreaking, heartwarming growth, the fun--this is basically a perfect young adult romantic comedy. In Ann Liang's young adult rom-com This Time It's Real, when seventeen-year-old Eliza's class essay about

I was taken with the main characters of the past storyline here: a young boy at a children's home and Almost thirty years ago, Dennis, a young boy from a children's home, washed away in the rough waves of Now his sister Amanda, a young adult who first learned of Dennis while researching her birth mother,

Young adult Josie's origins--specifically her immaculate conception--have overshadowed everything else Young adult Josie is Girl One, the first of nine baby girls who were famously conceived without male When her mother disappears, Josie begins to track down the other Girls, and together the young women Both of the books felt like young adult reads to me.

In Skyhunter, the first book in Marie Lu's young adult Skyhunter duology, Lu offered complex motivations Lu, a former artist in the video game industry, has written multiple young adult series (Legend, Warcross , The Young Elites, and Skyhunter) as well as the stand-alone adult novel The Kingdom of Back.

with offbeat children's performances on a lazy, decadent English estate in the 1920s and builds to the young-adulthood pages, and the story sweeps through time from the 1920s malaise of the children and the excess of the adults ongoing series of lavish dinner parties, hangovers, persistent hangers-on, and malaise occurring for the adults I loved reading as the children come into themselves--in fits and starts--as young adults, and I came

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading See You Yesterday, the recent young adult novel that plays with The Groundhog Day -type setup for this playful, romantic young adult story is irresistible. prepublication digital edition of this book (published last week) courtesy of Simon & Schuster Books for Young Solomon is also the author of The Ex Talk, Weather Girl, and the young adult Today Tonight Tomorrow. Walsh's The Love of My Life, Emma is a marine biologist who's devoted to her husband Leo and their young

It often felt like a young-adult story because of the significant focus on young Peanut and her own challenges

This light fiction young adult novel offers (reluctant) romance, best friendships, dance lessons, glimpses In the newest young adult book by Nicola Yoon, Evie Thomas is reeling from her parents' divorce--and Nicola Yoon is also the author of the wonderful young adult books Everything, Everything and The Sun

I adored the romantic setup and seemingly ill-fated attraction in Saft's young adult fantasy-mystery, I loved the setup of Saft's romantic young adult fantasy novel Down Comes the Night. The great young adult fantasy elements are all in place here: magic, healing, a defiant main protagonist Saft is also the author of another romantic young adult fantasy novel, A Far Wilder Magic. I loved her character-building, her balance with the young romance, her fantastic, detailed setting,

conditions of each passenger's death, Here One Moment ; I'm reading Sally Rooney's newest novel, about young-adult the overworked dad trying to make it home in time for his daughter's musical, to the mother of two young

For one mindboggling year when they're young adults, the sisters reach the heights of fame as the pop

I was hooked by Meg Long's debut young adult science fiction novel about tough young Sena, her skittish In Meg Long's debut, the young adult science fiction novel Cold the Night, Fast the Wolves, young Sena When Sena finds herself desperately on the run from certain death, she and her injured young fighting

How to Date a Superhero (And Not Die Trying) is a charming, irresistible young adult story about superheroes In Cristina Fernandez's new young adult book How to Date a Superhero (And Not Die Trying), main protagonist

Sarah Rees Brennan is also the author of the fantastic character-driven young-adult fantasy In Other

Reading Now I'm reading Cultish, nonfiction by Amanda Montell; the upcoming (to be published tomorrow) young adult story How to Date a Superhero (And Not Die Trying) by Cristina Fernandez; and I'm listening to club. 02 How to Date a Superhero (And Not Die Trying) by Cristina Fernandez In Cristina Fernandez's young adult book How to Date a Superhero (And Not Die Trying), to be published tomorrow, our main protagonist

Along with their ill, bedridden mother, young-adult sisters Sam and Elena struggle to get by on an island freedom, whereas Elena never realized the half-truths and comfort she murmured to Sam when they were young

In Elizabeth Wein's young adult historical fiction novel, it's 1943, and a British spy plane has crashed The plane's young pilot and its passenger are best friends, but only one of the girls survives. Wolf by Wolf is the first book in Graudin's young adult duology (the second, Blood by Blood , is also Yael, a tough young woman who escaped from a concentration camp, has been training as a spy for years

James Willoughby, a poor, naive young medical student, becomes drawn into the underworld of body snatching series, the Shadow and Bone series ( which I mentioned in the Greedy Reading List Six Royally Magical Young Adult Series ) and The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic .

Cyrus Shams is an orphaned young adult, the child of Iranian immigrants, and a recovering addict and

This is a great, character-driven sequel to McManus’s young adult mystery One of Us Is Lying. Last year, in McManus's great young adult mystery One of Us Is Lying, the Bayview Four cut through the

this book, check out Will They or Won't They. 04 Better Than the Movies by Lynn Painter I LOVED this young adult book. Lynn Painter's adorable young adult rom-com Better Than the Movies is about Liz Buxbaum, a fabulously the growth, the banter, the heartbreaking, heartwarming growth, the fun--this is basically a perfect young adult romantic comedy.

adult light fiction is delightful, youthful, sometimes wonderfully silly, and heartwarming. Emiko Jean's young adult light fiction Tokyo Ever After is the story of Izumi (Izzy) Tanaka, an everyday For other great young adult books, you might try the titles on the Greedy Reading List Six Fantastic Stand-Alone Young Adult Books. And for more young adult stories about royalty, you might try Six Royally Magical Young Adult Series.

In Christina Lauren's newest romantic fiction, Anna and West are a young married couple on the verge for my full review of The Paradise Problem . 06 Not for the Faint of Heart by Lex Croucher Croucher's young adult queer medieval adventure romance is sweet, spunky, and full of great banter, with characters finding adult romance. It's a young adult book, with lots of love and attraction but very little steaminess (none explicit),

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Anatomy: A Love Story, a gothic young adult historical fiction 01 Anatomy: A Love Story by Dana Schwartz In Anatomy: A Love Story, Dana Schwartz's young adult gothic mystery, it's 1817 in Edinburgh, and Hazel Sinnett is a young woman desperate to become something women particularly inclined to search for opioid drug addicts like her--in fact, no one seems to believe the young

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Rule of Wolves, Leigh Bardugo's second and final book in the young adult King of Scars duology; I'm listening to Life After Life, Kate Atkinson's lovely book about second 01 Rule of Wolves by Leigh Bardugo Rule of Wolves is the second and final book in Bardugo's young adult (I mentioned her Shadow and Bone series in the Greedy Reading List Six Royally Magical Young Adult Series But during her next go-round with living, she survived only to die young in an accident.