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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Book Identification -- young adult novel witch
I read a chapter book (a novel) in 1975 or 1976, when I was 12. So I think it was possibly a novel geared to young adults. It was about a girl who either was a witch or became one during the story, ...
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70s/80s/90s YA novel, civilization ends, language falls apart
I read so many dystopian novels from the school library in the 90s ...
In this one a group of people survived some catastrophe (perhaps nuclear).
There was a young girl, maybe she was the narrator. I'...
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A boy and his war machine
A juvenile SF novel from the early 80s, maybe? A non-conformist boy is sent off to an authoritarian school in the middle of nowhere, but forms a partnership with a war robot prototype - there's a ...
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YA book written between 2009 and 2012 - Orphaned girl is at school for people with magic. She has electricity powers
This book was about a girl whose family died in a car crash and she was the last survivor. She was at a school and she did not realize everyone had magical powers including herself. She’s this super ...
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YA scifi book I read in the early 90s about a girl and her archaeologist uncle
When I was in junior high in the early 90s we read an excerpt from a sci-fi novel for class.
It was about a young girl on an alien planet. I think she was with her uncle who was an archeologist. ...
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Novel about aliens putting teens through tasks to live on their planet
A few years ago I read a book about a teen girl going to their high school gym and completing these tests to see if they were eligible to get into this program/spaceship. Earth was gonna be destroyed ...
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1980s book with a teenage boy and girl who both have some kind of power. In one scene, the boy teleports a toy train from a store window into his hand
Looking for an early 1980s young adult book. The only things I can remember from the book are no help at all searching.
There's a teenage boy and girl who both have some kind of power. In one scene, ...
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Transmigration novel where a girl enters a novel she's been reading and becomes friends with the male lead
It is a historical novel, transmigration/reincarnation themed. This girl enters into a novel she read and becomes the male lead's (ML's) childhood friend. I think the original friend died from falling ...
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Looking for the title of a book with a boy and an alien creature
I've been trying to find out about a book I read when I was in my early teens. This would have been late 90's to very early 2000s. All I can remember is that a boy finds an alien creature that looks ...
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Fantasy adventure book with a boy who gets lost in the desert and is saved by nomads, who make him race to win back his horse
I remember reading this fantasy adventure book set sometime in the medieval era, which I am 90% sure is part of a larger series, about 5 or so years ago, but I could not tell you anything about the ...
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Book about a boy who finds a floating black orb and when he touches it, it takes him back to the time of Jesus
When I was in elementary school I remember reading a book about a boy who found a floating orb and when he touched it he got transported to the time of Jesus, and then he ends up staying and watching ...
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Short story collection for young readers centred around ghosts and the weird
I'm trying to remember a short story collection centred around ghosts and the unexplained from my childhood. I read this book between the years of 1990 and 1995, so the publication date would not be ...
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YA book about teens with powers who attend a boarding school
I remember the start of the book has the main character doing an exam I think, then they have to go to this school. I think they were adopted. I remember him having mental powers and making friends ...
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Urban Explorer teen novel with radiation symbol on the front cover
These kids were like urban explorers. I found the book during the years 2013–2014. So it must've been written before that.
This book was thick and had a picture of a fallout symbol on it, and that the ...
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Fantasy book where girl speaks with animals on an island kingdom
I've searched for hours trying to find a fantasy series and need help. It was published around 2016/2017 and is part of a series that is about 4 books long.
It takes place on different islands or ...
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