We’re lucky to be alive during a time when science fiction and fantasy authors are publishing bold, provocative stories that expand our ideas of how to talk about the future and the nature of power.

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Like jazz, the Broadway musical, and the foot-long hot dog, young adult literature ... yet the authors of books for teen-agers are still 15 years behind the times. In the fiction they write ...

In this collection of YA titles recommended by NPR book critics and staff, you'll find romance, historical fiction, poetry, fantasy and more. Whether you're a young reader or young at heart ...

When Amy Rose Capetta started writing her young ... fiction,” including crime, fantasy, romance, science fiction and historical fiction. According to Lo’s research, less than half of the YA ...

Last month, it was William Giraldi, trashing romance novels in the pages of the New Republic, who did the critic’s equivalent of dumping a bucket of piranhas into a crowded pool on the first ...

Young adult (YA) books offer some of the most beautiful ... This World War II historical fiction novel follows two British girls spying on Nazi Germany who crash-land their plane.