Con artists, sociopaths, revenge junkies…there’s nothing like following the twisted exploits of a great thriller, and it’s all the more fun when there are teens at the helm or in the hot seat. This summer is rife with all kinds of thrillers, from the high-octane to the slow-burn destructive to the psychologically twisted. Here are […]
November is a love letter to YA fantasy fans! If you’re into queer fantasy, as well as fantasy based on Greek, Chinese, and Japanese legends, consider this a monthlong opportunity to give thanks. Contemporary fans also have plenty to be grateful for, with tales of friendships lost and recovered, life on the factory line in […]
Blast off this week with two sci-fi adventures set among the stars, three fantasies inspired by Chinese, Japanese, and Irish folktales, and a futuristic character study set in a world without boys and men. In contemporary YA, a budding paleontologist gets a taste of professional rivalry, and a female mechanic tries to solve a mystery […]
Meet the Young Adults, the B&N Teen Blog’s swat team of awesome teenaged bloggers. YA literature is a strange and wonderful landscape of books that should be read by everybody, but each month we highlight the perspective of the teens reading the best of the best books written for and about them. Check back monthly to see what they’re […]
Combine clones, top-secret organizations, government coverups, more clones, weird cults, mad science, family relationships, and even more clones, and you get the brilliance that is BBC America’s Orphan Black. The show opens on Sarah Manning, just returned home after running away from motherhood, drugs, and other troubles. When she witnesses a woman who looks exactly like her committing […]
