It’s always exciting to discover new books and authors and, as usual, some of the freshest voices can be found in young adult publishing. Here are three debut titles that have quickly become librarian favorites around here.
Melissa Albert writes with an authority that belies her status as a first-time author in the deliciously creepy The Hazel Wood. Bad luck has followed Alice every one of her 17 years and no matter how many times she and her mother, Ella, move to a new town, disaster always catches up. When Alice’s grandmother, the reclusive author of the cult fairy-tale classic Tales of the Hinterland, dies it seems their luck has finally turned. But bad things continue to lurk around the edges of their lives and it isn’t long before Ella goes missing. All signs of the abduction point to the The Hazel Wood, her grandmother’s rundown impenetrable estate. Dark, eerie, and deeply atmospheric, author Melissa Albert mines the darker side of fairy tales in this unsettling Continue reading “New Voices in Young Adult Literature”
