EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation, James Wan's Atomic Monster has acquired the rights to Julie Soto's bestselling YA ...

Whether youâ re reliving your high school days or are still trying to survive them, YA novels have a way of drawing you into worlds where first love, epic quests, and dramatic self-discovery are just ...

Here are our picks for the best YA books hitting shelves this October.

Big Spring, Texas / / October 13, 2025 / Wordsmith World Key Takeaways Christian YA mysteries deliver heart-pounding suspense ...

Earnest love stories by Rainbow Rowell, TJ Klune and Talia Hibbert will tug at your heartstrings while grappling with real, often dark, issues. By Jennifer Harlan With her new book, “Children of ...

R. M. Baril, who spent his formative years in Eau Claire, left a job as a director of operations to pursue his true love: writing. “I started writing back in high school,” said Baril in a recent ...

Among the books hitting shelves next week are a picture book tracing a mayoral candidate’s walk through his city, a graphic ...

A beautiful graphic novel about the complexities of teenage life, the tangles of twinship and the power of music to somehow make sense of it all. Sometimes everything feels heavy and uncomfortable. My ...

Back in 2020, I faced the bane of every writer’s existence: a blank page, in an empty notebook. I was starting my first novel for adults in years, and I always struggle to find a way into the story.

There is a stereotype that books shelved under Young Adult literature are not for adults. That if a story is appropriate for children, then it must only be appropriate for children, or that if it ...