Young adult
The Honeyman and the Hunter by Neil Grant
‘How do we find the place where we belong?’ asks Neil Grant in his newest YA novel, as he follows Rudra Solace from a beachside fishing village on the Australian coast to a sunken village in India. Rudra, a likeable…
Internment by Samira Ahmed
Set in a possible near future, this is a terrifying America featuring segregation, abuses of power and racism. One night, seventeen-year-old Layla and her parents are given ten minutes to pack up their things before they are taken to an…
We Are Okay by Nina LaCour
This moving novel creates the claustrophobia and snowy hush of seventeen-year-old student Marin’s winter break, which she’s chosen to spend in the empty dorms of her upstate New York college. This decision is part of a year spent deliberately removing…
What I Like About Me by Jenna Guillaume
What I Like About Me is the highly anticipated debut from Buzzfeed columnist, journalist, editor, and pop-culture connoisseur Jenna Guillaume. Written in diary form, this witty YA novel takes place over one transformative summer holiday as sixteen-year-old Maisie Martin is…
Highway Bodies by Alison Evans
In Alison Evans’ latest novel the zombie apocalypse has hit Australia with force. Highway Bodies is written from the perspective of three different teens, all of whom are forced to lean on those close to them in this harsh new…
The Light Between Worlds by Laura Weymouth
The journey from childhood to adulthood can be challenging; beyond the physical transformation of our bodies and the rollercoaster of our emotions awaits the struggle to understand who we really are, to discover our tribe and, ultimately, where we belong.
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The Twisted Tree by Rachel Burge
Martha can read people by touching their clothes, as if their memories and emotions have been absorbed by the cloth they wear. This strange ‘gift’ started when she became blind in one eye as a result of falling out of…
On the Come Up by Angie Thomas
Angie Thomas’s debut novel, The Hate U Give, was an absolute knockout – a bestselling, award-winning novel from 2017 that eloquently portrayed racism in America and gave a young adult voice to the Black Lives Matter movement.
On the…
Two Can Keep a Secret by Karen M. McManus
The author of the bestselling young adult mystery One of Us is Lying has come through with a new thriller that will not leave her fans disappointed.
Twins Ellery and Ezra have been sent to live with their grandmother in…
Open Mic Night at Westminster Cemetery by Mary Amato
Edgar Allen Poe’s cemetery is certainly the last place a newly deceased person would like to be interred within, with ‘unbreakable rules’ that, if broken, can result in you being nailed into a coffin all over again. Freshly dead Lacy…
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