These are some YA books published in September 2021 that haven’t been featured on Cracking the Cover but still deserve your attention.
Browsing: young adult
Author Brendan Kiely starts a conversation with white kids about race in The Other Talk: Reckoning with Out White Privilege.
Roles are reversed when a former prisoner moves into the palace in Lynette Noni’s YA fantasy The Gilded Cage.
A young woman seeks justice following the atrocities of WWII in Sharon Cameron’s new young adult novel, Bluebird.
Two exes are thrown together when their siblings fall in love in Farah Naz Rishi’s It All Comes Back to You.
A young woman will stop at nothing to break her sister’s curse in Cyla Panin’s Gothic YA fantasy debut, Stalking Shadows.
A young apothecary pushes back against the status quo in Brigid Kemmerer’s new young adult novel, Defy the Night.
A detective partners with a lonely-hearts columnist to solve a murder in Nancy Campbell Allen’s The Matchmaker’s Lonely Heart.
A teenager takes off on a flight and lands 25 years later in Michelle I. Mason’s debut novel, Your Life Has Been Delayed.
A young woman discovers she has magical powers in Sasha Peyton Smith’s historical YA fantasy, The Witch Haven.