Summer lovin’: July’s best YA titlesEight edgy reads: Exploring the tension between tradition and liberal modernity; a Gothic novel; and dark thrillerMon Jul 18 2022 - 06:00
YA fiction: back to the past in June’s best books for teensReviews: Friends Like These; When You Call My Name; Spin Me Right Round; The Writing on the Wall; The Butterfly Assassin; Twin CrownsMon Jun 20 2022 - 06:00
The Poet by Louisa Reid: tackles ‘problematic older man’ trope with nuanceBeautiful, biting page-turner may appeal to Meg Wolitzer fansSat Jun 04 2022 - 06:00
YA fiction round-up: From dragon ladies to teen mental healthKelly Barnhill balances fantasy and the everyday; Helena Close reveals modern IrelandMon May 23 2022 - 06:00
Young-adult fiction: Nuanced depictions of conflict, violence and injusticeThe danger of suppressing emotions is a theme in Sera Milano’s Vile StarsSun Apr 24 2022 - 06:00
Young-adult fiction: Let’s talk about important booksGreat reads from Jane Mitchell, Jacqueline Wilson, James Goodhand and othersMon Mar 28 2022 - 06:00
YA fiction: Posing the questions that continue to haunt us as adultsBook reviews: I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter; The Balloon Thief; Fire Becomes Her; Rock Paper Killers; Only A MonsterTue Mar 01 2022 - 06:00
YA fiction: Ireland’s answer to Buffy the Vampire SlayerShort reviews of Echo North, The Ivory Key, Gilded, The Bone Spindle, Must Do Better and The Gifts That Bind UsSat Jan 29 2022 - 06:00
Young-adult fiction round-up for January: A strong start to 2022Great reads from Julya Rabinowich, Manon Steffan Ros, Alison Weatherby and moreWed Jan 05 2022 - 06:00
Wish You Were Here: Appeal lies in satisfying blend of familiar Picoult elementsBook review: Personal evolution in Jodi Picoult’s Covid-19 novelSat Dec 04 2021 - 06:00
Reimagining the world: recent YA books put a new spin on old talesNew reads from Yaba Badoe, Laura Wood, Shappi Khorsandi, Caroline Busher and moreMon Nov 29 2021 - 06:00
YA titles for Halloween: Medusa, Banshee Rising, As Good As DeadNew reads from Jessie Burton, Riley Cain, Holly Jackson and many moreSat Oct 30 2021 - 06:00
The opposite of Luna Lovegood: Evanna Lynch takes to the pageBook review: The Harry Potter star writes about eating disorders in an honest wayWed Oct 20 2021 - 06:00
October’s best new YA: poetry, philosophy, politics (and kissing)Tomorrow Is Beautiful by Sarah Crossan, Poison for Breakfast by Lemony Snicket, and much moreThu Oct 07 2021 - 06:00
YA fiction for September: What it means to be humanGreat reads from Meg Grehan, AS King, Jennifer Lynn Alvarez and Naomi GibsonSat Sept 04 2021 - 06:00
Young-adult reads for August: Tough times in the real world and in the near futureNew YA titles from Yasmin Rahman and Tamsin Winter, and a debut novel from Rebecca HenrySun Aug 08 2021 - 06:00
YA titles for July: horror and hope in this month’s picksNew titles from Manjeet Mann, Sera Milano, Emily Barr and Goldy MoldavskyThu Jul 15 2021 - 06:00
Censorship and curation in children’s booksShould we clear shelves of legacy problems or just write more inclusive books?Tue Jun 29 2021 - 06:00
YA fiction: Love of all shapes amidst the ruinsPlus new titles from Nicola Yoon, Alice Oseman, Ciara Smyth and Jason CockcroftSat Jun 12 2021 - 06:00
YA fiction: witches and aliens remind us teenagers are weirdBig themes and intriguing scenarios from established and new authorsSat May 15 2021 - 06:00
YA fiction round-up: Debut novel focuses on friendship and love after the TroublesPlus new titles from David Almond, Krystal Sutherland, Sara Barnard and Brian ConaghanThu Apr 22 2021 - 06:00
YA fiction: Jarlath Gregory’s novel isn’t just about love – it’s about hopePicks from Andy Robb, Mary HK Choi, Lize Meddings, Zoe Sugg and Amy McCullochTue Mar 23 2021 - 06:00
Young adult fiction: Picks for FebruaryWorks by CG Moore, Adiba Jaigirdar, Neal Shusterman, Flynn Meaney and Emily M DanforthWed Feb 24 2021 - 06:00
YA titles for January: How to be betterFrom the science of adolescent sleep to Angie Thomas’s return to Garden HeightsSat Jan 23 2021 - 06:00
Angie Thomas: ‘I knew this book was going to be prime banning material’The Hate U Give author on teen sex, writing about the world pre-internet and young black fathersFri Jan 15 2021 - 06:00
YA Fiction: satisfying reads for DecemberPhilip Pullman’s heroine revisited, a thrilling Karen McManus mystery and much moreWed Dec 23 2020 - 06:00
YA fiction: the best of 2020Claire Hennessy breaks down the best young adult fiction of the year by theme and tropeSat Dec 19 2020 - 05:21
YA fiction: Growing up black in the USFrom Dear Martin to Punching the Air – novels that prove the country is problematicWed Nov 25 2020 - 06:00
YA fiction: Witches, goddesses and cheerleaders for HalloweenPlus new thrills from Finbar Hawkins, Ayesha Harruna Attah, Bill Konigsberg and Nikita GillSat Oct 24 2020 - 06:00
YA fiction: Children of Lir’s Aífe tells her side of the storyDeirdre Sullivan and Anna Carey write Irish women in to the picture in compelling waysWed Sept 30 2020 - 06:00
The return of Edward Cullen, vampire and emotional abuserStephenie Meyer’s Midnight Sun is 756 pages long, and it feels every bit of itTue Sept 01 2020 - 06:00
YA fiction: summer heartbreak, public shaming and reality-hoppingLatest novels from Meg Rosoff, Simon James Green, Lucy Cuthew and Patrick NeateSat Aug 01 2020 - 06:00
The best new young-adult fiction: The thrills and terrors of pilotingThe Gravity of Us brilliantly tackles several issues at once without a heavy-handed lectureFri Jul 10 2020 - 06:00
YA Fiction: Theatre, a Hunger Games prequel, and rabbitsNew books from E Lockhart, Juno Dawson, Suzanne Collins and Helen CorcoranSat Jun 06 2020 - 06:00
Young adult fiction: Prison, dragons, drama and a love letter to TolstoyThe story of a US president in her teens, and a trilogy on a plausible dystopian futureSat May 09 2020 - 06:00
Young adult fiction round-up: reworking of Irish myth is a hitMarie-Louise Fitzpatrick hits the spot and an emotional war novel from Matt KilleenSat Apr 11 2020 - 06:00
Young adult round-up: Sheena Wilkinson’s historical novel is the final in a trilogyThe many worlds of young adult fiction from school stories to zombie apocalypsesSat Mar 14 2020 - 06:00
Young adult fiction: February titles forgo romance in favour of feminismHomelessness, refuges, black eyes, gymnastic endeavour and funny ‘un-feminism’Sat Feb 15 2020 - 06:00
Young adult fiction: Delightful distractions for JanuaryJenni Hendriks and Ted Caplan’s Unpregnant wrests humour from an unlikely placeSat Jan 18 2020 - 06:00
Young adult books: smashing the sound of silenceRuta Sepetys deftly navigates Franco’s Spain while Akwaeke Emezi’s Pet is underwhelmingSat Dec 21 2019 - 06:00
Young adult fiction round-up: Holly Jackson’s gripping crime thrillerPlus great reads from Mary HK Choi, Erin Stewart and Jenny DownhamSat Nov 23 2019 - 06:00
Young adult books roundup: contender for 'best of 2019' listsBrian Conaghan, Philip Pullman, Malorie Blackman, Rainbow Rowell and MA BennettSat Oct 26 2019 - 06:00
Nuance and the danger of issues in young adult fictionNew work from Marcus Sedgwick, Shirley-Anne McMillan and Kit de WaalSat Sept 28 2019 - 06:00
YA fiction and poetry round-up: thought-provoking titles for teen readersAn exciting Nordic noir from Sif Sigmarsdóttir and a verse novel by poet Dean AttaSat Aug 31 2019 - 06:00
YA Fiction: Magical dive into teenagers facing Ireland’s hideous heritageEscaping comfort zones, a psychotic breakdown and the humble spud as colonial oppressorSat Aug 03 2019 - 06:00
Won’t somebody please think of the children?YA Fiction: Yasmin Rahman’s All The Things We Never Said, Meredith Russo’s Birthday and moreSat Jul 06 2019 - 05:00
YA Fiction: American versus Irish takes on the teen novelPlus some classics from Gabrielle Moss, Kathleen Glasgow and Maureen DalySat Jun 08 2019 - 06:00
Labelling literature and getting on with it: Banshee journal publishes its first bookLucy Sweeney Byrne featured in first Banshee. Paris Syndrome will be their first bookTue May 14 2019 - 06:10
YA Fiction: poetry gives voice to tough topicsSarah Crossan and Laurie Halse Anderson use free-form verse, also a wartime secret revealedSat May 11 2019 - 06:00
YA Fiction: Siblings and Survival Feature In April’s PicksPlus new works from John Boyne, Sara Mara Griffin and C.G. DrewsSat Apr 13 2019 - 06:00
