Category: YA literary fiction

Grace Notes by Karen Comer

Page-turning pandemic verse novel

Enter the Body by Joy McCullough

An inventive reimagining of Shakespeare’s heroines (mini-review)

Laurinda by Alice Pung

Brilliant skewering of snobbery and racism (mini-review)

Talking Tomatoes by Kate Walker

Poignant story set in a high school production of Romeo and Juliet (mini-review)

Girls in Boys’ Cars by Felicity Castagna

Lively and believable, with a literary touch (mini-review)