The following YA fantasy novels feature magic and mystery, making them good choices for summer reading.
Browsing: young adult
Decades apart, two young women deal with WWII and its aftermath in The Rebel Girls of Rome, by Jordyn Taylor.
A young Black woman dreams of independence while living in 1860s England in The Great Misfortune of Stella Sedgwick, by S. Isabelle.
A teen searches for her biological mother while another copes with giving up her baby in This Book Might Be About Zinnia, by Brittney Morris.
A girl wins first-class passage on planetary ship of all ships in Bound by Stars, a YA romance by E.L. Starling.
Wendy Darling gains new perspective on growing up when she returns to Neverland in Wendy’s Ever After, a YA novel by Julie Wright.
A young jeweler’s apprentice gets caught up in a fight to control kingdoms in Embrace the Serpent, by Sunya Mara.
A family “gift” gives a girl the chance to change a key moment in her life in Rewind to Us, a YA novel by Molly Morris.
Amateur sleuths Jonathan Darcy and Juliet Tilney must solve a murder involving the family of Edmund and Fanny Bertram in The Rushworth Family Plot, by Claudia Gray.
A boy and his family are forced to live cut off from the rest of the world in Best of All Worlds, a YA novel by Kenneth Oppel.