Following her two exquisite WWII YA novels Code Name Verity and Rose Under Fire, Elizabeth Wein turns her focus to Italy’s invasion of Ethiopa in the mid-1930s. Teo and Emilia are the son and daughter, respectively, of Delia and Rhoda, a [...]
Rachel Hartman’s debut YA fantasy Seraphina was a blast of fresh air in 2012 – a gorgeously rendered Renaissance-style world featuring a thoughtful and unique take on dragons, complicated politics, and laced with a deep passion for and [...]
Algonquin Young Readers has been pushing Nova Ren Suma’s The Walls Around Us with the tag line “Orange is the New Black Swan,” which is so succinct and perfect that one wishes they could retroactively steal it. But pithy descriptors aside, [...]
V.E. Schwab – who also publishes young adult and middle grade fiction under Victoria Schwab – made her adult debut with 2013’s Vicious, a revenge tale between superhero-like figures that turned the genre’s tropes on its [...]
Get In Trouble is the newest short story collection from the wonderfully twisted and whimsical mind of Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award winner Kelly Link, and her first book since 2008’s Pretty Monsters. If you’re unfamiliar [...]
When the Veronica Mars television series was canceled in 2007, fans held on to the hope that show creator Rob Thomas would be able to continue the teen detective’s story as an FBI rookie. Sadly, that series never happened, but it may have [...]
The Ghosts of Heaven is the latest novel from Printz Award winner Marcus Sedgwick and it’s an ambitious one – four self-contained tales (titled “quarters”) connected by spirals, both literal and philosophical. Beginning with a young woman [...]
