The Most Anticipated YA Books of 2019, Part 2
A preview of six books debuting in the second half of the year.
Tag: young adult
Cooking Up A Full Life Despite Systemic Handcuffs
A review of Elizabeth Acevedo’s new novel, “With the Fire on High.”
‘American Panda’ Is Based on Gloria Chao’s Own Struggle With Identity
“I never felt quite Taiwanese or American enough.”
‘The Bone Witch’ is Occasionally Thrilling but Ultimately Underwhelms
The world in which Rin Chupeco’s ‘The Bone Witch’ is set is freshly innovative, but the lead character verges on cliché.
‘Iceling’ Is YA Sci-Fi at its Most Engaging and Frustrating
Sasha Stephenson’s engaging but occasionally frustrating ‘Iceling’ opens sixteen years ago, when a team of scientists discover a bundle of abandoned human babies in the Arctic. As a work of YA genre fiction, it gets many things right.
In ‘Shutter,’ Photographs Only Tell Part of the Story
‘Shutter’ is another wonderfully chilling young-adult mystery from Laurie Faria Stolarz that explores the romantic tension between truth and fallacy.
The Author of ‘Falter Kingdom’ Is Possessed
Michael J. Seidlinger is not your typical YA author. Case in point: after unboxing the first copy of his new book Falter Kingdom, he set it on fire and lit a cigar with the flames.
