Claire Hennessy

Louder Than Hunger by John Schu, Jenny Ireland’s second book, The Boy Next Door, The Midnight Clock by Jamie Costello, Looking for Lucie by Amanda Addison; and Royal Scandal by Aimee Carter

Where the Heart Should Be by Sarah Crossan; Trigger by CG Moore; The Traitor in the Game by Triona Campbell; The Things We Leave Behind by Clare Furniss and more

Seven Million Sunflowers by Malcolm Duffy; Amy Goldsmith’s debut Those We Drown; On Silver Tides by Sylvia Bishop; The Bad Ones by Melissa Albert; and The Book of Love by Kelly Link

Little Bang by Kelly McCaughrain; This Tale Is Forbidden by Polly Crosby; A Cruel Twist of Fate by HF Askwith; The Invocations by Krystal Sutherland; and So Let Them Burn by Kamilah Cole

New books from Blessing Musariri, Deb Caletti, Amber Smith, Abdi Nazemian, Nicholas Bowling and Christelle Dabos

Young adult fiction came under attack this year but there is much to celebrate

David Arnold’s writing is stylish, featuring the kind of smart teens one finds in John Green or David Levithan books

Horror stories have long provided a useful metaphor for the challenges of adolescence

Reviews of Thieves’ Gambit; Mindbreaker; Wise Creatures; Grapefruit Moon; The Changing Man; Every Exquisite Thing

From an utterly gorgeous story by Gavin Extence to another delight from Sally Nicholls and a superb second book by Helen Corcoran

From escaping sex trafficking in India to mastering anxiety

Reviews: Sing If You Can’t Dance; Sunshine; Stars In Their Eyes; A Calamity of Mannerings; Bellegarde

Books that highlight the importance of queer love stories for teenagers in an era of bans and challenges

Joyce Efia Harmer’s How Far We’ve Come and Jacqueline Woodson’s Brown Girl Dreaming are among a good crop

From Sam Blake’s teenage murder mystery in south Dublin to the painful break-up of a friendship