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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A ruined USA, where protagonists are captured by a biker bandits encamped in a zoo
It was written in English. I read it around 2013-2014 in British Columbia, Canada when I was in middle school.
It could have been a short series, or one book.
The protagonists are young adults, and ...
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Looking for a children's or young adult novel about three kids travelling to a fantasy land
I've been trying to remember the title of a children's or young adult book I read as a child about thirty years ago. (So it may be from '70s or '80s). I don't remember many of the details.
There ...
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A book about life as a ghost but being a ghost is only temporary
This was a book I read around ten years ago. I read it in Swedish, unknown if it was translated or not. I remember getting it from the "youth/young adult" section of the library, though that library ...
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Teen/Young-adult sci-fi book about a man leaving Earth by order from an alien entity
I read the book around 2006-2008 and it was aimed at teenagers. I read it in Swedish if that helps.
The story is set in the future and I think it begins with a man leaving Earth for a new job maybe. ...
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Child/YA sociopolitical dystopia with kids who find an underground source of powers
As a kid, maybe around 1982, my parents read a book to me about a group of kids forming some kind of (cruel?) society. I cannot remember much of it; maybe my parents stopped reading because they felt ...
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Paperback YA novel where protagonists assume ghost's unfinished business is charity clothes drive
I read this somewhere in the 1990s, almost certainly as a Young Adult paperback, in English and in the United States. I might have gotten it from the library. There was a ghost that the main ...
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Fantasy Book - Unrequited Love, Female Protagonist Not Human?
I read this book in middle school or before, which would mean publication in 2002 - 2003 at the latest, though I couldn't tell you how old the book was when I read it. I started writing down books I ...
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Children raised collectively, girl taken to be translator for aliens
I read this book somewhere around 1996/97, probably on the earlier side, and I'd like to track it down. It was in the school library (Durban High School, South Africa), but for the policies of that ...
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Fantasy book series where the rulers of the city have gemstones in their chests
I've been trying to find this series for years and hoping someone has some insight. This was a YA fantasy series that I read in the mid-90's about a city that was ruled by four couples. Each couple ...
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Young adult novel about a girl who has false memories of a human childhood, but was stolen from the woods to be experimented on
I read this book when I was quite young, maybe 12 years old (2013).
I remember it was about a girl who grew up in a futuristic society. This society’s government guards people from the woods/forest ...
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Medieval fantasy book: flat worlds, golden skins, eternal night and days
I am looking for a fantasy (medieval) book, for teenagers/young adults.
Here is what I remember:
In a world split in constant night and day part
Nobody goes to the night part
There are 'normal people'...
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Short story with a boy who goes through a door that isn't there
I'm trying to remember a short story I read in the early/mid 80s with some kids who decide to take revenge on a bully, they turn up to his birthday party laden with presents which turn out to be empty;...
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YA book about a girl who can calm people with magic piano playing
I read a book series a few years ago (2-4), it’s YA fantasy or sci-fi. It’s about a group of teenagers who all have unique “super powers” and are dying really young from drinking poisoned water. The ...
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Trying to find a YA dystopia published between 2012-2015 with a main female lead and aliens
I've been trying to remember the name of this book, as it was the first a series. I wanted to wait until a few more books came out, but I forgot the name and my Kindle Unlimited history has been ...
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Name of children/teenager sci-fi book
About a boy (teenager) who put together an egg-shaped spaceship. A face-less person welcomed him into this “lost (and found)” world where it rained at night and you could do anything except skydive ...
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