Browsing: young adult

Annie Hartnett’s debut novel, Rabbit Cake, is an exploration of grief, family and strength of humor following loss. The book has received starred reviews.

Susin Nielsen’s Optimists Die First, tells the story of Petula, a former crafting fiend who shut herself off from the world after a family tragedy.

A List of Cages is not a “light” book. It deals with some pretty serious issues. But in Robin Roe’s gentle hands, those issues are handled with tact and care.

I didn’t particularly like or care about the characters in Kim Savage’s Beautiful Broken Girls, but for some reason, I couldn’t put it down, either.

I really have no idea what it is like to be a black woman in America. That’s why I find books like Renée Watson’s Piecing Me Together so compelling.

What first appealed to me about Marianne Kaurin’s Almost Autumn was, of course, the cover and the setting — WWII Oslo, Norway.

I picked up Daughter of the Pirate King shortly after reading three excellent, but hard books. I needed a light adventure and that’s exactly what I got.

If you found out you were going to die, what would you do? Len Vlhaos’ Life in a Fishbowl follows a father faced with just that decision.

E.K. Johnston’s “Spindle” is a companion novel to “A Thousand Nights,” which is the retelling of “Arabian Nights.” However, each book stands alone.

Alexandra Bracken studied both history and English in college, and her history degree helped her considerably when writing “Wayfarer” and “Passenger.”