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Children of Blood and Bone
Zélie lives in Orïsha, a land of magic, but the king and his son are determined to wipe out all of the magi, seeing magic as a threat to...

Suzanne Severns
Jan 22, 20231 min read
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Serendipity: Ten Romantic Tropes, Transformed
If you're looking for a romantic short story anthology for teens, featuring some of today's bestselling YA authors, look no further. In...

Suzanne Severns
Jan 17, 20231 min read
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The Woman They Could Not Silence
In 1860, Elizabeth Packard, a mother of six who had been married for over twenty years felt that she had just as much right as her...

Suzanne Severns
Dec 4, 20221 min read
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The Inheritance Games
Avery Grambs, who has very little and is currently living in her car, had planned to go to college on scholarships, but now she's...

Suzanne Severns
Nov 6, 20221 min read
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We Are Not From Here
After Pulga and Chico witness a murder and Pequeña ends up with a baby by a man she loathes, the three friends, fearful for their lives...

Suzanne Severns
Oct 2, 20221 min read
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I'm Not Dying with You Tonight
Lena and Campbell have very little in common and hardly know each other...until they are suddenly forced to help each other when a high...

Suzanne Severns
Sep 11, 20221 min read
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Graceling: The Graphic Novel Adaptation
In this visually stunning adaptation of Kristin Cashore’s opening novel in the Graceling series, acclaimed graphic novelist Gareth Hinds...

Suzanne Severns
Sep 5, 20221 min read
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The Summer We Forgot
Juniors Darby, Morgan, and several of their friends worked as camp counselors for their biology teacher who recruited them to work the...

Suzanne Severns
Aug 8, 20221 min read
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All the Pretty Things
Seventeen year old Ivy Cork helps her father at his amusement park doing everything from making cotton candy to handling press releases....

Suzanne Severns
Aug 7, 20221 min read
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Into the Clouds
Most people have heard of Mount Everest, the tallest mountain in the world. Over 6% of those who try to climb it perish in the attempt,...

Suzanne Severns
Jul 17, 20221 min read
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You'd Be Home Now
Emory Ward (aka Emmy) doesn't really know who she is. Her mother, a lawyer whose family is well-off thanks to a textile mill, wants her...

Suzanne Severns
Jun 19, 20221 min read
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The War to End All Wars: World War I
If you've ever read any books by Russell Freedman, you know he excels at providing highly interesting, concise historical accounts that...

Suzanne Severns
May 21, 20221 min read
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Sabotage: The Mission to Destroy Hitler's Atomic Bomb: Young Adult Edition
During World War II, when the Allies realized that Germans in occupied Norway were creating so-called "heavy water" for use in Atomic...

Suzanne Severns
May 15, 20221 min read
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Day Zero
In the not-too-distant future, the United States is experiencing "The New Depression" and there is a great deal of political divisiveness...

Suzanne Severns
May 8, 20221 min read
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White Smoke
Marigold is running from ghosts and not just the ghosts from her past. Ever since her family moved from their home in California to their...

Suzanne Severns
Apr 25, 20221 min read
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I Must Betray You
The year is 1989 and communist regimes in Eastern Europe are falling apart. Seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu is full of hope that...

Suzanne Severns
Apr 17, 20221 min read
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All These Bodies
It's 1958, and there's been a string of murders in the midwest in which the bodies are found completely drained. In the latest murder...

Suzanne Severns
Apr 10, 20221 min read
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They Both Die at the End
In the not-too-distant future, people receive a phone call from Death-Cast to let them know that it is their last day on Earth. No one...

Suzanne Severns
Apr 3, 20221 min read
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Nyxia
Emmett Atwater has been given the chance of a lifetime...leave Detroit and receive training on a state-of-the-art spaceship in order to...

Suzanne Severns
Mar 27, 20221 min read
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Ordinary Hazards
In this memoir in verse, award-winning writer Nikki Grimes shares the story of her difficult childhood as the daughter of a paranoid...

Suzanne Severns
Feb 20, 20221 min read
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