Maureen Lee Lenker

9.On the Come Upby Angie Thomas:How do you follow up (spoiler alert!)

This is one of those books where the elements tell you everything you should probably know.

as they face new challenges.

Best YA Books of the Decade

While if at first the novel lacks the radical energy of its predecessor,it builds beautifully.

Its epilogue ranks among the best endings I’ve read in a YA novel ever.

Specific in nature, the novel soars in its universality.DC

2.Love From A to Zby S.K.

Ali:This one will go in the canon of classic YA romances.

The joy of this one is in the writing the chemistry, the comedy, the budding love.

I feel like, when you’re 16, you have the greatest-ever capacity for romantic love.

You fall in love with every cell of your body.

As a result, I felt really voiceless and powerless as a kid.

I turned to books to find comfort particularly fantasy books because they took me to a different world altogether.

It was a fascinating map because half of the southern United States was pretty much gone."

Percy Jackson’s narrative voice was shaped a great deal by the wisecracking PIs of noir fiction."

The Near Witchby V.E.

I had no idea what shape my career would take, the way it would shift and grow.

Now, eight years, and 14 books later, I can say it’s coming back.

The book that started it all."

Savor it, because you’ll read it for the first time only once."

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