Review by Jennifer Irvine
Fionn Boyle has lot to deal with in his 11-year-old life in Dublin. His dad died before he was born, his mother suffers from depression, and his 13-year-old sister Tara has turned into a self-absorbed, heartless teenager. When he and Tara are shipped off to the island of Arranmore for the summer, things only get worse. … More The Storm Keeper’s Island by Catherine Doyle
Review by Kelsey Elisabeth Moorhouse
Have you ever found yourself wondering how it would feel to be half-dragon and a teenager? Well Seraphina, the sixteen-year-old heroine of Rachel Harman’s debut novel of that name, could teach you a thing or two. … More Seraphina by Rachel Hartman
Review by Shyamala Parthasarathy
Queer in every sense of the term, Michelle Ruiz Keil’s All of Us with Wings is an ethically handled rape-recovery narrative which redefines what family and home mean. On the run from her past, seventeen-year-old Xochi becomes the governess of precocious twelve-year old Pallas. … More All of Us with Wings by Michelle Ruiz Keil
Review by Lauren Maguire
Space battles, sword fights, heroes, villains, epic quests, evil corporations, and magical fireworks: Once and Future has them all. Unknown to her, teenage Ari Helix is the forty-second reincarnation of King Arthur and, after finding Excalibur on the ruins of Old Earth, she is sought out by a backward-aging, teenage Merlin whose mission is to prepare her for the dangers to come. … More Once and Future by Amy Rose Capetta and Cori McCarthy
Review by Shanleigh Klassen
Ugliness is a sin not easily forgiven. At least that’s Isabelle’s experience as the suffering protagonist of Jennifer Donnelly’s latest novel. Stepsister picks up right at the climatic end of the Grimm’s Cinderella, in which Isabelle’s mother persuades her daughter to mutilate herself to fit the glass slipper. … More Stepsister by Jennifer Donnelly
Review by Laura Ward
Ghosts, a family curse, and two young girls dedicated to finding the truth is what The Ghost Road is all about. … More The Ghost Road by Charis Cotter
Review by Juhyun Tony Bae
If you like reading sci-fi/fantasy you’re probably familiar with stories that grapple with immortality—you might even find the line, “death gives life meaning,” a tad cliché. With Neal Shusterman’s Scythe traveling that heavily-trodden dystopian road, for me, the question of the novel’s success came down to the story’s handling of the ideas and its ability to pave its own path. … More Scythe by Neal Shusterman
Review by Joseph Pooley
Pure imagination, concentrated, distilled, and injected directly into your brain. That’s Furthermore. Alice in Wonderland, but turned up to eleven. That’s Furthermore. A bright and dazzling merry-go-round that spins you around at ludicrous speeds and leaves you laughing and stumbling, dizzy but elated. That’s Furthermore as well. … More Furthermore by Tahereh Mafi
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