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We Don’t Use Words Like ‘Crazy’: Irish readers will find many points of comparison to this insider’s view of the crumbling NHS
Elliot Sweeney knows the system is broken and how many have fled; he’s still there
Sinister experiments and girl-power cults feature in August’s young adult titles
Works by Kathryn Clark, Lauren Wilson, Mary Watson, Daniel Tawse and Becki Jayne Crossley
Queer romance at the end of the world: the best new young-adult fiction
A brilliant debut from debut from Cass Biehn, plus new work from Brian Selznick, Abdi Nazemian, Josh Silver and Sophie Gonzales
Strange new worlds and a summer camp murder: YA reads for June
Skipshock by Caroline O’Donoghue; Best of All Worlds by Kenneth Oppel; The Brightest Star by Meg Grehan; The Last Wish List by Jacqueline Silvester; Exit Stage Death by Ava Eldred
Dystopian futures, war-torn pasts: May’s YA titles explore the darker side of humanity
Book reviews: Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins; The Hive by Anna February; Under A Fire-Red Sky by Geraldine McCaughrean; and Emily J Taylor’s The Otherwhere Post
Gaming, fandom, and therapy-speak: April’s YA titles explore contemporary adolescent culture
Reviews: What Happens Online; Do You Ship It?; Red Flags; Solo; The Girl with the Red Boots; Matched Up
March’s best young adult fiction: deeply satisfying reads
Songs for Ghosts by Clara Kumagai; I Am the Cage by Allison Sweet Grant; Every Borrowed Beat by Erin Stewart; Pieces of Us by Stewart Foster; and Stealing Happy by Brian Conaghan
February’s YA picks: Rebellion, reincarnation and romance
All Better Now by Neal Shusterman; Under The Same Stars by Libba Bray; A Fix of Light by Kel Menton; The Vulpine by Polly Crosby; and Our Infinite Fates by Laura Steven
January’s YA titles: meditations on grief and mortality (don’t worry, there is still kissing)
Including Let the Light In by Jenny Downham and Louis Hill; After Life by Gayle Forman, and The Boy I Love by William Hussey
December’s YA picks: Genre fiction where horror tropes are subverted, thwarted and perpetuated
Including books by Susan Cahill; Bill Wood; Scarlett Dunmore; Rosie Talbot and Sarah Maxwell; and Bex Hogan
November’s young-adult fiction: fantasy worlds and alien encounters
Featuring Sabaa Tahir’s Heir; Silver by Olivia Levez; When It’s Your Turn For Midnight by Blessing Musariri; Rani Choudhury Must Die by Adiba Jaigirdar; and Darkly by Marisha Pessl
Unflinching examinations of contemporary teenage life in October’s YA picks
A Kathleen Glasgow novel that asks the big questions, and new works by AS King, Louisa Reid, James Butler and Jason Reynolds
New YA titles for autumn from award-winning writers and illustrators
Jandy Nelson’s ‘delirious, intoxicating’ latest, plus works by Berlie Doherty, Frances Hardinge, Catherine Doyle and Matt Goodfellow
Oppressive regimes and first love: Key teenage themes captured in September’s best YA fiction
A round-up of exciting new works by Moira Buffini, Neil Taylor, Zainab Boladale, Maggie Horne and Meg Rosoff
Celestial bodies, murder and time travel: YA books for August
Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick, Chris Ricketts, Rebecca Anderson, Lauren James and Brian Dungan deal with subjects from gender and love to internet culture
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