#Young Adult Literature

Looking for the best young adult books, new YA books for your pre-order list, or young adult fiction for yourself or to give to the teens in your life? We’ve got all the bases (and genres) covered.

2014 YA Fiction Preview, Part 2: 66 Titles For Your July – September Radar

Back in January, I put together a preview of 60 YA titles to be published in the first six months ...

Harry Potter and the Chances J.K. Rowling Writes Another Wizarding Novel

If you’re half as Harry Potter-mad as I am, then you probably sprained something trying to get to Pottermore when ...

Dear School Boards of America: Have a Backbone. Also, Read Books.

On June 12th, the Cape Henlopen school board in Delaware voted 6-1 to drop Emily M. Danforth’s The Miseducation of ...

The Reasons We Cry When We Read

I just finished Ruin and Rising, Leigh Bardugo’s last installment in her YA “tsarpunk” Grisha Trilogy, and that last chapter ...

In His Own Words: Walter Dean Myers

Last week, the kid lit community lost one of its giants when Walter Dean Myers passed away. Credited with writing over ...

10 Classic Children’s and YA Books That Will Never Be Dated

While we at the Riot are taking this lovely summer week off to rest (translation: read by the pool/ocean/on our ...

5 Books To Watch For In July

We are going all-supernatural in this month’s Books to Watch, with dragons and vampires and ladies that are cities and ...

Signs You’ve Been Reading Too Much YA

While we at the Riot are taking this lovely summer week off to rest (translation: read by the pool/ocean/on our ...

Riot Round-Up: The Best Books We Read in June

American Gods by Neil Gaiman  I’ve been putting this one off for a while. Sure, it’s probably the most widely ...

Nurdfighters for Paul Zindel: A.S. King Talks Adult Characters, Darkness, and the Ahistoricity of YA

At Book Expo America this year, I had the pleasure of sitting down with the inimitable A.S. King to talk, ...