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2 months ago | 
bookriot.com | Amber McBride |Erica Martin |Taylor Byas |Kelly Jensen
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Somehow, some way, we’ve reached the final week of January. It’s been a long month in these parts, and I know for folks in many areas of the country, it’s been an especially challenging month. In the midst of whatever January has thrown your way, I hope you’ve been able to enjoy a good book or two.
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Feb 29, 2024 | 
newinbooks.com | Craig R. Hipkins |Jenna Miller |Amber McBride |Vera Kurian
in Books to Read if You Like..., eBook, News, Young Adult
6 New Books to Read for Fans of Grown-ishIf you’re a fan of “Grown-ish” and its blend of self-discovery and friendship, we’ve got new books just for you. We’ve curated 6 new books that resonate with the show’s spirit, offering tales of young adulthood filled with humor, drama, poignant moments, and a little bit of magic.
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Feb 12, 2024 | 
bookshop.org | Amber McBride
From National Book Award finalist Amber McBride, a mystical, transcendent poetry collection about Black womanhood in the American South In Thick with Trouble, award-winning poet Amber McBride interrogates if being "trouble"--difficult, unruly, powerful, defiant--is ultimately a weakness or an incomparable source of strength.
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Jan 12, 2024 | 
goodreadingmagazine.com.au | Amber McBride
ABOUT THE BOOKBlack Swan meets House of Hollow in this villain origin story. Laure Mesny is a perfectionist with an axe to grind. Despite being constantly overlooked in the elite and cutthroat world of the Parisian ballet, she will do anything to prove that a Black girl can take center stage. To level the playing field, Laure ventures deep into the depths of the Catacombs and strikes a deal with a pulsating river of blood.
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Jan 2, 2024 | 
bookriot.com | Amber McBride |Erica Martin |Taylor Byas |Elizabeth Byrne
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Pause and take in a deep breath of fresh air. As we enter into a new year, among the many things we have to be excited about are new books. The world of YA is looking especially generous, with plenty of winter 2024 YA books to get excited about.
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Oct 21, 2023 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Amber McBride |Laura Nowlin |Holly Jackson
There’s not much plot here, but readers will relish the opportunity to climb inside Autumn’s head. The finely drawn characters capture readers’ attention in this debut. Autumn and Phineas, nicknamed Finny, were born a week apart; their mothers are still best friends.
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Oct 3, 2023 | 
bookshop.org | Amber McBride
(Author) FORMAT Hardcover$17.99$16.73(English) Buy new or used from an indie through our partner Biblio: Price Condition Seller In middle-grade debut, Gone Wolf, award-winning author Amber McBride lays bare the fears of being young and Black in America. In the future, a Black girl known only as Inmate Eleven is kept confined -- to be used as a biological match for the president's son, should he fall ill. She is called a Blue -- the color of sadness.
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Sep 7, 2023 | 
banoyi.com | Amber McBride
YA/NYTNic Stone, the author of “Dear Martin,” “Chaos Theory” and more, recommends some of her favorite young adult books about mental health. Credit...Siobhan GallagherSept. 20, 2023, 5:00 a.m. ETI was 14 years old when I experienced my first mental health crisis. Things were tricky at home, and I was deeply overwhelmed with emotions that I didn’t have the space or language to express. As a result, I developed an anxiety disorder.
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May 30, 2023 | 
brazosbookstore.com | Ryan La Sala |Noor Naga |Amber McBride
Brazos Bookstore will host Ryan La Sala in person on Friday, October 6 at 6:30pm. From Ryan La Sala, author of the tantalizingly twisted The Honeys and riotously imaginative Reverie, comes a chilling new contemporary fable about art, aesthetic obsession, and the gaze that peers back at us from behind our reflections. No one survived the party at the penthouse. Except Athan.
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Mar 2, 2023 | 
audiofilemagazine.com | Amber McBride
Home»Reviews»WE ARE ALL SO GOOD AT SMILINGby Amber McBride |Read by Amber McBrideYoung Adult Ages 12+ 3.75 hrs. Unabridged © 2023Author/narrator Amber McBride begins this audiobook with a trigger warning that the story involves depression, suicide, and self-harm. Whimsy, newly released from rehabilitation, meets a fae boy, Faerry. They are bound by the commonality of magic, unexpressed grief, and determination to find healing through mutual support.
