New YA from your favourite authors
We are only two months into 2024 and we have already been gifted with some incredible new titles from some of our favourite young adult authors! Here's a list of just some of them!
From The author of House of Hollow and Our Chemical Hearts.
The Invocations by Kyrstal Sutherland
Zara Jones won't accept her murdered sister is gone forever and will do whatever it takes to claw her sister back from the grave – even trading in the occult. Jude Wolf may be the daughter of a billionaire, but she is also undeniably cursed. Jude's desperate to find someone to undo the damage she's done to herself. Enter Emer Byrne, an orphaned witch with a dark past and a deadly power, a.k.a. the solution to both Zara's and Jude's problems.
Though Emer lives a hardscrabble life, she gives away her most valuable asset – her invocations – to women in desperate situations who are willing to sacrifice a piece of their soul in exchange for a scrap of power. Zara and Jude are willing, but they first have to find Emer.
From the author of The Curse Breaker series
Destroy the Day by Brigid Kemmerer
The thrilling conclusion to the Defy the Night series is finally here!
Prince Corrick is out of options. Held captive by the vicious Oren Crane, he's desperate to reunite with Tessa, but will need to ally with the rebel leader Lochlan, who until now wished him dead. An island away, Tessa Cade is heartbroken and angry. Grieving Corrick, and unsure how to find a way back to Kandala, she doesn't know who to trust. Meanwhile in Kandala, Harristan is dethroned and on the run. He's struggling to unite the rebels in his fractured kingdom, but he finds support - and maybe more - in unexpected places.
Can Harristan be the king his people need? Can Corrick and Tessa find their way back to each other?
From the Author of Girl, Unframed
The Epic Story of Every Living Thing by Deb Caletti
Harper Proulx has lived her whole life with unanswered questions about her anonymous sperm donor father. She's convinced that without knowing him, she can't know herself. When a chance Instagram post connects Harper to a half sibling, that connection yields many more and ultimately leads Harper to uncover her father's identity. Harper joins her newfound half siblings on a voyage to Hawaii to face their father. The events of that summer, and the man they discover-a charismatic deep-sea diver obsessed with solving the mystery of a fragile sunken shipwreck-will force Harper to face some even bigger questions- Who is she? Is she her DNA, her experiences, her successes, her failures? Is she the things she loves-or the things she hates? Who she is in dark times? Who she might become after them?
From the author of Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me
Anne of Greenville by Mariko Tamaki
In this modern reimagining of Anne of Green Gables, Anne is an ABBA-loving singer/actor/writer of disco-operas, queer, Japanese-American who longs to be understood for her artistic genius. Recently relocated to middle-of-nowhere Greenville and starting at a new school, Anne has a tendency to A) fall in love quickly, deeply, and effervescently and B) fly off the handle in the face of jerks. Both personality quirks quickly come into play when the soccer team boos the premiere of her disco performance, which - in a roundabout way - introduces her to her new BFF, Berry, and she soon after meets the girl of her dreams, Gilly.
From the author of As Happy as Here
Look Me in the Eye by Jane Godwin
Best friends Bella and Connie live on the outskirts of the city in an area that was once full of open fields and paddocks but is changing as the suburbs creep closer. And now there is Mish, Connie's cousin, who has to be included even though she is unfriendly and unpredictable. The pandemic lockdowns have lifted and the three teens are eager to explore their newfound independence. But with the world opening up, there has been a rise in surveillance, from apps that track their movements to voice recorders and hidden cameras. It feels like everyone is watching them. But when does 'watching' become 'watching over'?
From the author of If You Could See the Sun
I Hope This Doesn’t Find You by Ann Liang
Sadie Wen is perfect on paper. It's not easy, but she has a trick to keep her model-student smile plastered on her face at all times- she channels all her frustrations into her email drafts. She'd never send them of course. Sadie doesn't have to hold back in her emails, because nobody will ever read them . . . that is, until they're accidentally sent out.
Overnight, Sadie's carefully crafted, conflict-free life is turned upside down. It's her worst nightmare - now everyone at school knows what she really thinks of them, and they're not afraid to tell her what they really think of her either. But amidst the chaos, there's one person growing to appreciate the "real" Sadie - Julius, the only boy she's sworn to hate . . .