Questions tagged [young-adult]
For questions looking to identify young-adult novels or asking about their presence in Science Fiction and Fantasy. If looking to identify a story, include the [story-identification] tag, if asking about the history of the genre use in conjunction with the [history-of] tag.
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Young adult horror story in which a boy's neighbor turns out to be the Devil
What I can remember is that a boy lives with his grandma in a apartment and a new neighbor moves in. The kid befriends the neighbor as the neighbor seems to know the kid's secret thoughts. It turns ...
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Young adult murder mystery book series about a cop's daughter who works in the morgue after school
It's about this high school girl. She's a cop's daughter and she works in the morgue after school. Everything is fine until dead bodies start coming into the morgue looking fine on the outside but ...
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series about a boy who has a chip in his brain- he is taken in and hooked up to machines, to be used for years and he loses his memory
I don’t know much about the book, a friend told me about it a couple months ago. But what I remember is that people had chips in their brains and this one character has certain abilities. There’s some ...
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Early 2000s young adult sci-fi novel about a girl choosing a new robotic body [duplicate]
I'm desperately trying to remember the title of a novel I read in high school (2002-3ish, Western Australia) about a girl who chooses to have a replacement robotic body. The body comes with a ...
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Fairy fantasy book about magic based on a points system?
I remember checking out a book from my library maybe 5-10 years ago. It was a hardcover purple and white book that might have had a pair of wings on the cover. I can’t remember the title. (It might ...
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Teen/young adult fiction anthology book that has a steampunk/Victorian era theme
I read this book four years ago (in 2020), so the details I can provide may be thin. It was an anthology book that, from what I remember, took place sometime in a Victorian-ish era, with a possibility ...
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What early juvenile sci-fi book is about a boy who trains on a lunar station for a mission in space?
I have vague memories of reading this in the late 70's or early 80's so the details are pretty fuzzy.
What I do recall is that it was about a teenage boy who was training for some kind of mission, ...
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Book about Female Monster Hunter Protagonist that has fangs
I read this book about a young woman who begins to see monsters that humans can't see and she eventually becomes a monster hunter. Unlike normal monster hunters, the protagonist isn't human and uses ...
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YA dystopian book involving a female about to be sterilized who eventually escapes into frames of art or an alternate world portal with other kids
I read a book published before 2004 in middle school. I'm 36, 7th grade I believe, a school set in Des Plaines, IL. Teacher gives us a book to read with assignments. Because of the assignments, is how ...
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fantasy book from 2012/13, young girl with powers from poorest part of kingdom, pursued by a captain
Okay, so I read this book when I was still in primary school which was almost 10 years ago, it is a fantasy book my memory of the plot is quite foggy at this point but from what I remember the ...
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How to become a witch: Fiction Novel - Girl finds a how-to book about witches at the library
I read this in 90s but the book might've come out in the 80s.
A girl at her library finds a how-to book about witchcraft in the children's section, among other how-to books. She's been at this library ...
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Fantasy/science-fiction book about a boy with a piece of a dragon scale in him
Maybe almost 5 years ago I read a fantasy and probably science-fiction book or series (possibly a trilogy?) where the protagonist gains the ability to use magic, and it is later revealed that he has a ...
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Looking for a YA fantasy novel from the '60s or '70s similar to the Narnia books but set in America and only one (female) protagonist
I remember reading this book in 1977, so it predates that year. There's a young girl who finds an abandoned mansion with an eerie gothic garden. I recall that the setting is the American Eastern ...
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A short YA SF novel about teenagers who lived their whole childhood in a house surrounded by a fence in a clearing of a "dangerous forest"
I read this short novel about 20 years ago, in French, in a rather thin paperback. I think one can consider it as YA.
I am not sure the action is on Earth. I have a vague memory of Mars having been ...
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Looking for 4 part book (bound as 1?) about a brother and sister w/ parents who are archaeologists
So I read this book in elementary school and middle school, it was never assigned. The copy I read was bound as 1 book, over 1k pages, for what I think were 4 parts (basically 4 books).
The brother ...
