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The Hunger Games Aren’t Over

by Meagan Fredette

A celebration of young adult novels, which we love through adulthood.

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How To Write A Book On Your Phone & Get 1 Billion Readers & A Movie Deal

Sarah Dessen Gets Teenage Girls & She Always Has

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The YA Books Your Favorite YA Authors Can't Stop Raving About

by Elena Nicolaou

29 Questions With An Engaged Couple Who Write YA Love Stories Tog...

Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka are the co-authors of two acclaimed YA romances: Always Never Yours (2018) and the forthcoming novel If I'm

by Emily Wibberley

Ally Condie Is A Maker & Breaker Of YA Dystopian Worlds

In 2010, Ally Condie was a YA novelist with exceptionally good timing. Condie's novel Matched came out just as the great YA dystopia boom was cresting

by Elena Nicolaou

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After Isn't Sexy – It's Proof YA Has A Sex Problem

“I am a moth to his flame, and he never hesitates to burn me.” If you’ve read Anna Todd’s After, you know it’s full of lines like this one — li

by Kathleen Newman-B...

Amy Zhang Became A Hit Author At 15. You Could, Too.

Liz Emerson, the main character of the novel Falling Into Place, thinks like a teenager. She sounds like one, too. That’s probably because she was writte

by Elena Nicolaou

Mindy McGinnis: "My YA Books Aren't Here To Please Adults"

Mindy McGinnis is an assistant YA librarian and an Edgar Award-winning author of YA books. Her most recent novel, Heroine, came out in March 2019 and looks

by Mindy McGinnis

What Is #OwnVoices Doing To Our Books?

In May of 2018, young adult fiction author Kosoko Jackson wrote a tweet that would come to haunt him. “Stories about the civil rights movement should

by Kat Rosenfield

The Best YA Books Written By Black Women That You Haven't Read Yet

by Kathleen Newman-B...

Fantasy Epics Are YA’s Next Big Trend — Here’s Where To Get Started

by Elena Nicolaou

The Baby-Sitters Club, But Witches: How Kate Williams Ch...

Kate Williams’s debut YA novel, The Babysitter’s Coven, will be published by Delacorte in September 2019. She is a writer, editorial director, and ghos

by Kate Williams

How To Get Started With YA, According To The NYPL's Youth Librarians

by Elena Nicolaou

Why Stop At One Book? Sandhya Menon Wrote A Rom-Com Universe

Sandya Menon is the author of three books. Her debut novel, When Dimple Met Rishi, about a first generation Indian-American teenager who might just be fall

by Elena Nicolaou

My YA Book Completely Changed My Life — And The Entire Publishing...

Jenny Han, the author of To All the Boys I Loved Before, reflects on one very momentous year.

by Elena Nicolaou

An Ode To Sick Lit, The Creepy Cancer Books That Shaped Our Child...

I was 10 the first time my school called my parents. I hadn't done anything wrong per se; I wasn't a problem kid, just a — well, a troubling on

by Kelsey Miller

Join The Refinery29 YA Month Reading Challenge

Some call it April. But at Refinery29, we call it YA Month. Over the course of the month, we'll be celebrating and exploring the culture of young adul

by Elena Nicolaou

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Why Are There So Many Sick Kids In Literature Today?

by Elena Nicolaou

Speak Is A Classic YA Novel. 20 Years Later Comes The Se...

In 1999, Laurie Halse Anderson was a first-time novelist whose editor warned her not to expect much from sales of her debut, Speak. But, thanks to word of

by Elena Nicolaou