Claudine’s life is unrecognizable. After family tragedy strikes and Claude leaves the only home she has ever known, she and her mother take the adventure of a lifetime—spending the summer on an island, away from their troubles and away from the pain back home. Both tragic and mesmerizing, Breathless is an abrupt, lyrical novel about young love and what it…
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The Sky Is Mine: The Brutal, Heartbreaking Path to Recovery
Izzie is slipping, falling, unable to stand back up on her own two feet. She feels alone, isolated, her words unable to be heard by Jacob, by her mother, and especially by her best friend, Grace. The Sky Is Mine by Amy Beashel is a harrowing and painful look at the violent, tragic experiences of adolescence and the voicelessness that…
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The Two Lives of Lydia Bird: A New, Complex Romantic Read
Lydia thought she had her life planned out with her boyfriend, Freddie. They had ordinary lives, ordinary jobs, and an ordinary, wonderful life together. But when tragedy strikes, Lydia must reevaluate her future and try to find some solace in a world without Freddie. Both tragic and ultimately uplifting, The Two Lives of Lydia Bird tackles the pain of grief…
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Let It Snow: An Oddly Charming Christmas Flick
With the holiday season comes an assortment of Christmas films—a majority coming from none other than the Hallmark Channel. Yet, this season, Netflix appears to champion the genre with their most recent release, Let It Snow, based on the bestselling novel by young adult writers John Green, Lauren Myracle, and Maureen Johnson. Told with intersecting storylines, this teen Christmas story is…
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The End and Other Beginnings: A New Beginning for Veronica Roth
First there was the world of Divergent, full of romance and breath-taking risks. And then came Carve the Mark, a fantastical, re-imagined world. Now, Veronica Roth introduces readers into various new worlds in her anthology The End and Other Beginnings. With disturbing and moving accounts of the effects of technology and life in the future, Roth delivers one of her…
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The Speed of Falling Objects: A Tragic Yet Uplifting Look at Fear
“Give your fears a name. It takes away their power. Then tell me what you like and what you want to be.” Danny wants to live without fear, but everything inside of her tells her to be afraid. When she crashes, she has the choice: to be consumed by fear or to listen to the voices inside that tell her…
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We Hunt the Flame: An Explosive New YA Fantasy
Zafira takes risks—risks that could destroy her and her cause. Nasir is a killer, death the only language that flows naturally. We Hunt the Flame by Hafsah Faizal is a fast-paced, explosive YA fantasy that challenges gender roles and the means one will take to survive. In the same vein as An Ember in the Ashes and Children of Blood…
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EXCLUSIVE! First Chapter of ‘The Athena Protocol’ by Shamim Sarif
The Athena Protocol by Shamim Sarif will be available October 8th! Chapter One Sometimes, I wonder if the world might just look better through a riflescope. Crisper, clearer, narrowed down. Less messy. In my crosshairs, a boy soldier, just a teenager, not much younger than me, is asleep. Mouth slightly open, hand flung over his eyes to block the glimmering…
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Tan France: Naturally Hilarious
Celebrity memoirs can tend to be a hit or miss with audiences. Some have two-hundred plus pages of repetitive anecdotes of little interest to the readers while others dig deep, profoundly revealing the secret lives of those we see on both the big and small screen. Tan France, star of the Netflix series Queer Eye, provides readers with an in-depth…
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Teen Titans Raven: A Groundbreaking Addition to YA Graphic Novels
Teen Titans: Raven brings the complexity and spark of the original DC story and focuses on the beloved heroine Raven, through the ideas of both Kami Garcia and Gabriel Picolo. Told with a YA spin, readers are shown in beautiful, mesmerizing detail the origin story of Raven as she navigates high school, her past, and the new powers she develops and…
