Jill Ratzan
Content by Jill Ratzan
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“It wasn’t just the world that had changed with the coming of the Others. We changed.
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Sixteen-year-old Cassandra, her twin brother Paul and their father have always lived by the Old Way, even before the government forces them to move from the concrete Corridor to the sanctuary of an
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Some call them sea-wives. Others call them seal-women, fairy lasses or monsters.
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Wren Wells had her future all planned out.
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For 17-year-old Tess, growing up in a medieval English village has always meant keeping her power of fire-sight—and her trips to the forbidden Dragonswood sanctuary—a secret, especially
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Gayle Forman, acclaimed author of If I Stay, takes readers on a whirlwind tour of Paris in her latest novel, Just One Day. While on a summer trip to Europe, recent high school graduate Allyson Healey—who has never before considered herself adventurous—meets the attractive actor Willem and decides to take a risk and spend a single day in Paris with him.
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Adam Strand is bored. He thinks that his birth was a mistake and is constantly trying to correct that mistake—by jumping off bridges, drowning himself or taking poison.
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Lena’s hands have a third knuckle and her feet are too long.
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In their debut YA novel Mothership, authors Martin Leicht and Isla Neal create an uproarious, action-packed tale narrated by an expectant teen mother at a boarding school in outer space. While those attributes alone should have readers clamoring for the book—the first in a planned trilogy . . .
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A reader looking to pigeonhole Winger into a traditional genre category may be in for a surprise.
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About to start her senior year, Janelle Tenner has always felt most at home in the water.
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Traditional versions of the Minotaur legend often portray Ariadne as a tragic figure: After helping her lover Theseus escape the labyrinth, she is later abandoned on an Aegean island.
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When 17-year-old Michael and his 5-year-old brother run away from their abusive stepfather and into the West Virginia forest on Halloween eve, they know their world is about to change.
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If you had three wishes, what would you wish for? What if the genie granting your wishes was a sophomore at your high school, a photographer for the yearbook . . . and really cute?
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Is one day enough to change your life? Allyson Healey’s existence has always been predictable and mundane.
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Three years ago, Vanessa Adler's sister Margaret disappeared from the prestigious New York Ballet Academy.
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Ed is a high school dropout whose future goals have narrowed only to a search for the perfect shade of blue paint.
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Dystopias abound in contemporary young adult literature, but not all have received the attention—or garnered the fan base—of the Matched trilogy by Ally Condie.
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Crossed begins at the point where Ally Condie's previous dystopian novel, Matched, left off: Our heroine Cassia is at a work camp in a province far from her home, hopi
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Newbery Medal-winning author Karen Hesse is known for tales of characters finding rays of hope in situations of despair.
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Elvie Nara is a totally normal soon-to-be teen mom in the year 2074.
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Famine, disease and old age have been completely eliminated in Arras. Weather is carefully balanced, resources are rationed and neighborhoods are segregated by gender to enforce purity standards.
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Rachel Greenberg’s parents are on the edge of divorce, her former best friend Alexis is barely speaking to her, her grandmother’s health is fading—and while she’s theoretica
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Mirabelle has no memory of her parents, who died in a fire shortly after she was born.
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Many YA books tackle the topic of teens with eating disorders and body image issues.
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