Tag: Reviews

Mental illness isn’t the usual topic of YA novels, but through the years it has slowly begun to lose its stigma. How All This…

YA author Betsy James‘ story of how she came to write The Seeker Chronicles, the three volume novel of Downslope, Upslope and the Hill…

It was just a trip to the Laundromat. It shouldn’t have almost gotten her killed.When 16-year-old Kerry goes to the laundry to pick up…

Leslie’s Journal is a novel which, at first glance, seems to be the story of a teen who is on top of her game….

It’s a rare person in the remote town of Hunter’s Gap who knows anything about journalism. M. Taylor Armstrong-Brown isn’t from Hunter’s Gap. She’s…

Another historical fiction coming-of-age novel is Norah Perez’s One Special Year, which tells the tale of Jen McAllister in the first year of the…

Author Ann Rinaldi is practically a household name in terms of children’s and young adult historical fiction. Rinaldi’s research and meticulous recreation of historical…

There’s a moment during every momentous occasion in life where you ask yourself, “Should I still be doing this?” Usually it’s right when things…

Though this novel by Vivian Vande Velde is now out of print,The Changeling Prince can be found in the library in paperback version, and…

YA novels about different countries often focus on the exoticized features of their culture, but playwright and first-time YA novelist Allan Stratton doesn’t go…