And speaking of even more YA titles from the 2025 Texas Book Festival Grant… From historical fiction to paranormal fiction, a lot of good reading for teenagers AND adults!
- THE BLOOD YEARS by Elana K. Arnold → (Historical) World War II ; Holocaust-era Romania ; family torn apart ; love and loss
- SONGLIGHT by Moira Buffini → (Dystopian) dictatorship society ; girls with the gift or power of telepathy known as songlight ; secrets
- BETTER THAN THE MOVIES by Lynn Painter → (Romance) Liz and Wes ; teenage neighbors since childhood but he’s not boyfriend material (i.e. typical boy behavior as a child ; think of frogs in a Barbie house) ; Liz’s forever crush moves back ; can Wes help her win his love or is Wes the boyfriend she didn’t know she needed…?
- THE SPIRIT BARES ITS TEETH by Andrew Joseph White → (Paranormal) London, 1883 ; people with violet eyes ; marriage by arrangement (not love) ; thin line between the living and what’s not alive