Young Adult

Becky Allen’s first young adult fantasy novel, BOUND BY BLOOD AND SAND (Delacorte), addresses issues of power and justice as it follows a slave leading her people to revolution. (HB)

Annie Barrows’ young adult novel following the story of two ordinary teenage girls, NOTHING (Greenwillow), was published in 2017. (LD)

Author of THE DEMON CATCHERS OF MILAN, which is about a girl who must travel to Italy to learn the secret of her dangerous family business of exorcism (Egmont). (CB)

Jerri Chisholm is a distance runner, chocolate addict, and author of the dystopian YA Eleven Trilogy. The first title, Escaping Eleven, is out now, and book two, Unraveling Eleven, is coming fall 2021 (Entangled Teen). (RB)

Ronica Davis’ debut novel WHEN THE STARS LEAD TO YOU (Little, Brown Children’s) is a contemporary YA about an intense first-love romance complicated by marginalization, mental illness, and prejudice. (CF)

Bethany Frenette is the author if the fantastic YA dark fantasy trilogy DARK STAR, which includes the titles DARK STAR, BURN BRIGHT, and FIRE FALL (Hyperion). (CB)

Rosamund Hodge writes young adult fantasy novels and fairytale retellings, including CRUEL BEAUTY and CRIMSON BOUND (Balzer & Bray/HarperCollins), and her most recent series – a two-book reimagining of Romeo and Juliet in a fantasy world – which is introduced with BRIGHT SMOKE, COLD FIRE (Balzer & Bray). (HB)

Ariel Kaplan’s debut novel from Knopf, GRENDEL’S GUIDE TO LOVE AND WAR (Knopf Books for Young Readers), is a funny and poignant reimagining of the epic of Beowulf as a prank war between teen neighbors. (HB)

YA fantasy author of KEEPER OF THE MIST and THE FLOATING ISLANDS, which was selected as one of ALA’s 2012 Best Fiction for Young Adults, a Junior Library Guild Selection, and a Kirkus Best of 2011 Selection (Knopf Children’s). (CB)

Lisa O’ Kane is the author of ESSENCE (Strange Chemistry), a captivating tale in which a girl escapes from a cult to join a utopian community of thrill-seekers living in the ruins of Yosemite National Park, only to find there are dark secrets under her new home’s beautiful surface. (HB)

Farah Naz Rishi is a Pakistani-American Muslim writer and voice actor. She is the author of the YA novels I HOPE YOU GET THIS MESSAGE and IT ALL COMES BACK TO YOU (HarperTeen). (HB)

AdriAnne Strickland writes YA dark fantasy and space opera. Her newest book is IN THE RAVENOUS DARK (Feiwel & Friends). (HB)