The Thrashers by Julie Soto. Release Date: May 6 from Wednesday Books Why We’re Excited: This haunting, propulsive YA thriller follows the story of a teen suicide and the squad of privileged ...

This post was updated April 24 at 9:01 p.m. Jason Tanamor’s latest novel, “The Legend of Sensei Tsinelas,” is all about the world’s greatest superpower – one’s own identity.

Heroines, both real and fictional, abound in children’s and teen books these days. The girls and women in these books are bold, adventurous and daring. They stand out, and their stories offer ...

What’s different about Roy is that her grandmother happened to be Madeleine L’Engle, the book’s author, who revolutionized serious young adult fiction with her clever mash-up of big ideas ...

Another writer always strong on young male characters is Brian Conaghan, who is on form in his latest, Stealing Happy (Bloomsbury, £7.99), in which a 13-year-old boy hatches a plan to defeat the ...

Not all teen movies are set in reality. Some of them have genre components. In the case of The Lost Boys, that would be horror as it is a tale of both vampires and teenagers coming of age ...

On Oct. 26, this year’s Boston Book Festival hosted Young Adult keynote speaker Aiden Thomas in Old South Church’s Mary Norton Hall. Thomas is the author of the New York Times Bestselling ...

In the way it treated adolescent concerns with adult seriousness, the book has been credited with the birth of a whole literary genre: Young Adult Fiction. And now, more than a half-century later ...

A study conducted by HarperCollins and Nielsen Book, the primary data provider for the UK book industry, has found that since 2019, an increasing number of adults are turning to YA fiction. The ...

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There have been some standout books for young adults published in the past year. This young adult fiction is good enough to get your teen off a screen ... two very different 17-year-old boys, ...