A girl sets out to find a friend she couldn’t save in Meg Long’s new dystopian YA novel, Swift the Storm, Fierce the Flame.
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A girl in search of her past unearths secrets that could her nation’s future in Amélie Wen Zhao’s Song of Silver, Flame Like Night.
Lesa Cline-Ransome’s new young adult novel, For Lamb, explores an interracial friendship between two girls in the Jim Crow South.
An autistic changeling joins her twin on a hunt for treasure in Unseelie, the first book in a new duology by Ivelisse Housman.
A Bangladeshi American teen’s love life becomes a family affair when her mother arranges a match in The Love Match, by Priyanka Taslim.
A group of refugees are stranded on a cruise ship in Sarah Daniels’ dystopian young adult novel, The Stranded.
A teenager’s life is turned upside down when her mother remarries in The Star That Always Stays, by Anna Rose Johnson.
A group of young people are entangled in a world where past collides with present in The Children of Ragnarok, by Cinda Williams Chima.
A princess and a soldier find themselves in the middle of a battle for control of the throne in A Thousand Heartbeats, by Kiera Cass.
Each year, Cracking the Cover compiles a list of books that make great gifts. These are young adult books published in 2022.