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Book Review: Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

Laurie Halse Anderson’s Speak (1999) is one of those books that quietly rearranged YA. It arrived when “issue books” were […]

Isabel Greenberg’s second book set in her mythic “Early Earth” is a fairy-tale matryoshka: stories tucked inside stories, stitched with

Stephen King has a long, spooky history with extraordinary kids—think Carrie, The Shining, Firestarter—and The Institute sits right in that

Claudia Gray kicked off her YA career with this 2008 goth-romance opener, the first in a quartet that leaned into

Back in 2005, J. R. Ward kicked off the Black Dagger Brotherhood with a thud of bass and leather—an unapologetically

Before it became a modern classic taught in classrooms, The Book Thief was a quiet gamble by an Australian novelist

Tricia Levenseller is a reliable dealer in sharp-edged heroines and glossy court intrigue, and this 2020 standalone leans all the

Mio Wakagi’s Glass Heart began as a Japanese light-novel series about music, talent, and the fragile engine that keeps artists

Claudia Gray’s Evernight dropped into the late-2000s paranormal boom with a classic hook—gothic boarding school, star-crossed romance, secrets in the

Scott Cawthon’s Five Nights at Freddy’s universe started as an indie game series about haunted animatronics and security cameras—and somehow