Review by Emily-Anne Mikos
When technology begins to bridge the gap between life and death, how far can one go before they lose sight of reality entirely? … More No One Here Is Lonely by Sarah Everett
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 Louise Brecht
Abby Furlowe’s in shock. She’s seventeen. She’s naturally blonde. She’s a self-absorbed beauty queen who’s spent a lot of time mapping out her senior year at her Texas high school: cool besties, hot guys, great parties, good grades. … More Confessions of a Teenage Leper by Ashley Little
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 Laura Anne Harris
I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson is one joyous beam of light that takes the reader on a truly transformative journey during which empathy wins. This instant classic is exciting, mysterious, and a deeply emotional novel that, “will remake the world.” … More I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson
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 Ahmad Danny Ramadan
Abdi Nazemian wants to canonize his characters; he wants to give them their rightful status as saints. What’s a saint without suffering, though? How can you be a saint if you did not levitate over the pains of your existence towards a higher power? … More Like a Love Story by Abdi Nazemian
Review by Shyamala Parthasarathy
“…English came with the colonizers, but its literature is part of our heritage too, as is pre-partition writing.” I snort at these lines, appearing somewhere close to one-third of the way through Soniah Kamal’s Unmarraigeable, with its tagline of being a Pakistani Pride and Prejudice—which was what drew me to pick up the book in the first place. One of my earliest memories is sitting in a darkened film theater, watching Aishwarya Rai coo the soft sounds of Kandukondain Kandukondain, the Tamil adaptation of Sense and Sensibility, in her beautiful white ballgown. I remember being enthralled by the settings and the color and the desert dances in the dream-sequence music that is so typical of Indian cinema. I remember the laughter and the tears. And I remember, years later, picking up the original Jane Austen book and feeling completely let down, because Regency Romances were too white, too classist and too inaccessible for me, as a brown preteen, to fully enjoy. … More Unmarriageable by Soniah Kamal
Review by Tze Liew
The moon, la Luna, means so many things to eleven-year-old Celi Rivera. A dancer in the night. A goddess pulling on the tides of her heart. Her first menstruation cycle, which will wax and wane with the month. … More The Moon Within by Aida Salazar
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