07/23/2018
Set in the futuristic world of Westerfeld’s Uglies books, this action-packed series starter barely pauses to take a breath. Frey and Rafi are 16-year-old twin sisters, but the people of Shreve don’t know that. Rafi is the self-possessed face of Shreve, the city their father rules with an iron fist, electronically tracking the citizens’ every move. Trained as an assassin, Frey is a secret who exists only as her sister’s body double. After Frey, posing as her sister, is sent to the rival City of Victoria to help negotiate for much-needed steel, she joins a group of rebels to take down her father and prevent all-out war. In narrator Frey, Westerfeld presents a strong, complex heroine who learns to be her own person, not just a carbon copy. Themes such as environmental conservation and individual freedom deepen the story right up to its explosive finale, which will leave readers looking forward to the next installment. Ages 12–up. Agent: Jill Grinberg, Jill Grinberg Literary Management. (Sept.)
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Each month the B&N Teen Blog’s swat team of awesome teenaged readers shares their raves on the last YA books they loved. Today, they’re talking about the very best books they read in 2018. Don’t miss their picks for the year’s most crucial reads, and check out their previous recommendations here.
It’s another Barnes & Noble Book Haul Blowout, which means it’s the perfect time to shop for all the YA fantasies you’ve had on your TBR list. Catch up on series by Holly Black, Kendare Blake, Sarah J. Maas, Scott Westerfeld and more, all of which are new and recent bestsellers, and all of which […]
Meet the Young Adults, the B&N Teen Blog’s swat team of awesome teenaged bloggers. YA literature is a strange and wonderful landscape of books that should be read by everybody, but each month we highlight the perspective of teens reading the best of the best books written for and about them. Check back monthly to see what they’re recommending […]
The first time then newbie writer (and my coauthor!) Dhonielle Clayton met author Scott Westerfeld, she blushed and swooned, fanning herself like an old auntie drinking sweet tea on the porch, and I was floored—I’d never seen her react that way to another human. “He’s always been one of my favorite authors,” Dhonielle says, “and […]