Edited by Ashley Herring Blake and Rebecca Podos. Running Press Kids, $17.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-7624-7234-5
Fifteen authors offer up tales inspired and informed by classic romance tropes in this pleasing anthology, which delivers an enjoyable selection of kisses, confessions, and happy-for-nows. Alongside a variety of character backgrounds, gender...
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Edited by Tobias S. Buckell and Joe Monti. Lee & Low/Tu Books, $17.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-60060-887-2
Conceived in an effort to more judiciously represent ethnic and cultural diversity in YA fiction, this provocative collection, edited by SF author Buckell and literary agent Monti explores dystopian themes through multiple lenses. Instead of the...
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Malinda Lo, Author . Little, Brown $16.99 (264p) ISBN 978-0-316-04009-9
This debut, a retelling of Cinderella in which the heroine falls in love with a beautiful huntress rather than a prince, should establish Lo as a gifted storyteller. Aisling, aka Ash, is newly orphaned, her beloved mother dead and her father soon to
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Malinda Lo, Little, Brown, $17.99 (374p) ISBN 978-0-316-04007-5
Two teenage girls—Taisin, a sage who has visions, and Kaede, a brave fighter from a powerful family—must travel to see the Fairy Queen to try and save their land. A persistent winter has settled over their kingdom for two years, halting not only...
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Malinda Lo. Little, Brown, $17.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-316-19796-0
After birds begin to fall dead from the sky and cause planes to crash across North America, mayhem erupts, and rising high school senior Reese Holloway and her
debate partner, David, are forced to drive from Phoenix to San Francisco after all...
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Malinda Lo. Dutton, $17.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-735-22742-2
In this unusually structured murder mystery, Lo (Inheritance) explores the knotty jealousies, romantic longings, and class disparities among students at a pair of Massachusetts high schools. The first half of the novel is seen through the eyes of...
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Malinda Lo. Dutton, $18.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-525-55525-4
The year is 1954, and American-born Chinese 17-year-old Lily Hu, a rising senior at San Francisco’s Galileo High School, discovers the existence of the Telegraph Club nightclub by chance: via an ad in the Chronicle featuring a Male Impersonator....
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Malinda Lo. Dutton, $18.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-525-55528-5
This raw and bittersweet story by Lo, a 2013-set standalone companion to Last Night at the Telegraph Club, follows MIT-bound 18-year-old Aria West, who’s anticipating spending her summer visiting friends on Martha’s Vineyard, like she does every...
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Ellen Kushner et al. Saga, $21.99 trade paper (688p) ISBN 978-1-4814-8558-6
The collected edition of Serial Box’s multiauthor serial foray into Kushner’s Riverside world is generally strong and charming, but also occasionally serves to underline the weakness of the serial format in a compilation. Micah, a mathematical...
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