Today, we’re chatting about a young actress desperate to have a normal teenage summer at a small town book festival; Alyson Stoner’s memoir that shares their powerful story for the first time; and five sisters in a small village in eighteenth-century England whose neighbors are convinced they’re turning into dogs. WISH YOU WERE HER by Elle […]
Tag: YA fiction
Day’s YA: THE EXECUTIONERS THREE
THE EXECUTIONERS THREE by Susan Dennard 9781250334664 8/26/2025 Tor Teen Ages 13-18 E-galley available on Edelweiss and NetGalley Freddie has always been a good girl at heart–she’s the one who follows the rules, and wants to solve crimes instead of commit them. So when she hears shrieks coming from the woods, naturally, she calls the […]
Happy Half Hour (5/5/25)
Today, we’re chatting about a girl who sets out to prove there’s a murderer at large in her small town where legends haunt the present day; a mother who embarks on an odyssey through the afterlife to save her son who is literally and figuratively lost at sea; and two exes who go on a […]
Happy Half Hour (4/28/25)
Today, we’re chatting about a golem who must master the magic that binds her together to save herself and her friends; a librarian, a timid gardener, and a sentient rose who must work together to save their magical greenhouses; and two zookeepers at the last zoo in the world, who hatch a plan to smuggle […]
Day’s YA: SOUL OF SHADOW
SOUL OF SHADOW by Emma Noyes 9781250342966 7/29/2025 Wednesday Books Ages 13-18 E-galley available on Edelweiss and NetGalley Charlie Hudson hasn’t been the same since the death of her twin sister, Sophie, two years prior. Once an excitable, ready-for-anything girl, the loss of her sister has left her filled with grief and simply going through […]
Happy Half Hour (4/14/25)
Today, we’re chatting about a necromancer trying to resurrect her sister who gets embroiled in bigger, world-ending plans instead; a thrill-seeking young woman who joins a radical theater troupe; three estranged high schoolers who are pulled into a video game to pursue the disappearance of their friend; and a professor who learns that an unflattering version […]
Happy Half Hour (4/7/25)
Today, we’re chatting about a girl investigating the mysterious newcomer in town after a classmate goes missing, two heroines trying to save a lighthouse that guides the dead to the afterlife, and classmates at an academy for monsters who must work together to survive ravenous faculty members. SOUL OF SHADOW by Emma Noyes | 9781250342966 […]
Day’s YA: REWIND TO US
REWIND TO US by Molly Morris 9781250289728 6/17/2025 Wednesday Books Ages 13-18 E-galley available on Edelweiss and NetGalley Dixie Mulligan is in love with her best friend Sawyer, and she’s finally ready to tell him as soon as she lands in Cielo Springs, California for her annual summer vacation. She’s certain that she can fix […]
Happy Half Hour (3/24/25)
Today, we’re chatting about a girl racing across D.C. to decode the clues her father left behind and save the country; a mother who has been deceiving her twin daughters throughout their lives to keep them “safe”; and a woman who receives a once-in-a-lifetime chance to reconnect with her friend and repair what she broke. […]
Day’s YA: NOBODY IN PARTICULAR
NOBODY IN PARTICULAR by Sophie Gonzales 9781250352491 6/3/2025 Wednesday Books Ages 13-18 E-galley available on Edelweiss and NetGalley Danni Blythe is the newest student at the prestigious Bramppath College–she’s just moved to Henland from Boulder, Colorado for her mom’s relationship. Accepted on a music scholarship for piano, she’s prepared to be an outcast among the […]
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