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Page-turning "paperweights"
Looking for a book to get lost in during the waning days of August? One of these seven long, immersive novels for middle- or high-school readers should do the trick. See also our middle school and high school Summer Reading Recommendations. This Ends in Embers [Divine Traitors] by Kamilah Cole...
Future worlds
These five young adult novels implicitly or explicitly imagine future versions of our world, and might just give us new lenses through which to view the present. See also our Five Questions interview with E. K. Johnston about Titan of the Stars, the Reality Reimagined series from the May/June Horn...
Otherworldly forces
These five novels, recommended for middle- and/or high-school readers, blur the lines between the ordinary and the supernatural. See also the Guide/Reviews Database subject tag Supernatural. The Corruption of Hollis Brown by K. Ancrum High School Harper/HarperCollins 384 pp. 4/25 9780063285835 $19.99 e-book ed. 9780063285842 $10.99 High school senior Hollis...
2025 Summer Reading: High School
Picture Books | Beginning Readers and Primary Grades | Intermediate | Middle School High School Suggested grade level for all entries: 9 and up Sọmadịna by Akwaeke Emezi (Knopf) Fifteen-year-old Sọmadịna’s beloved twin brother, Jayaike, is stolen away by a sinister figure who aims to consume the twins’...
Female-focused fiction
In these six novels recommended for middle- and/or high-school readers, girls and women express themselves and help, protect, and uplift one another. March is Women’s History Month; see our Women’s History Month tag. True Life in Uncanny Valley by Deb Caletti High School Labyrinth Road/Random 416 pp. 3/25 9780593708613 $19.99...
Reviews of the 2025 Pura Belpré YA Award Winners
Winner Shut Up, This Is Serious by Carolina Ixta High School Quill Tree/HarperCollins 368 pp. 1/24 9780063287860 $19.99 e-book ed. 9780063287884 $10.99 It’s senior year, and while Belén’s classmates are focused on college applications, she’s flunking school and struggling to cope with a shattered home life. Since her pa walked...
Five questions for Jason Reynolds
Jason Reynolds’s sensitive, funny YA novel Twenty-Four Seconds from Now…: A Love Story (Dlouhy/Atheneum, 14–18 years) begins just before Neon and Aria’s “first time” — and then tells the story backward, giving perspective on how their relationship has led up to that moment. For more novels featuring all kinds of...
If you LOVE love stories...
With Valentine’s Day approaching, here are eight books featuring love, recommended for high-school readers — whether you’re looking for realistic or fantastical, happy or not-so-happy love stories, or even tales about self-love. See also our Five Questions interview with Jason Reynolds about Twenty-Four Seconds from Now…: A Love Story and...
YA Finds Its Way
We started our centennial year of mini-themed issues with picture books in the January/February issue, and now end, fittingly, with YA in November/December. It seemed like a natural progression — from “the early years,” as we were calling it, to young adult, with stops at poetry and folklore; nonfiction and...
Transgender Awareness Week 2024
In honor of upcoming Transgender Awareness Week (November 13–19), here are four titles featuring trans and other gender expansive characters, recommended for middle- and/or high school readers. For more, see the Trans/gender nonconforming tag on hbook.com and the Transgender persons and Gender identity tags in the Guide/Reviews Database. The Deep...
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