New YA titles for November 2020
Settle in for some solid young adult reads this November.
- Long way down: the graphic novel by Jason Reynolds, Danica Novgorodoff
After Will's brother is shot in a gang crime, he knows the next steps. Don't cry. Don't snitch. Get revenge. So he gets in the lift with Shawn's gun, determined to follow The Rules. Only when the lift door opens, Buck walks in, Will's friend who died years ago. And Dani, who was shot years before that. As more people from his past arrive, Will has to ask himself if he really knows what he's doing.
A graphic adaptation of the powerful verse novel
- How the King of Elfhame learned to hate stories by Holly Black, Rovina Cai
Before Cardan was a cruel prince or a wicked king, he was a faerie child with a heart of stone. In this sumptuously illustrated tale, Holly Black reveals a deeper look into the dramatic life of Elfhame's enigmatic high king. This tale includes delicious details of life before The Cruel Prince, an adventure beyond The Queen of Nothing, and familiar but pivotal moments from The Folk of the Air trilogy, told wholly from Cardan's perspective.
Companion title to the Folk of the air trilogy
- The silent stars go by by Sally Nicholls
Seventeen-year-old Margot Allan was a respectable vicar's daughter and madly in love with her fiancé Harry. But when Harry was reported missing in action from the Western Front, and Margot realised she was expecting his child, there was only one solution she and her family could think of in order to keep that respectability. She gave up James, her baby son, to be adopted by her parents and brought up as her younger brother. Now two years later the whole family is gathering at the vicarage for Christmas. And Harry wants answers.
From the author of Things a Bright Girl can do
- Mind the gap, Dash and Lily by Rachel Cohn | David Levithan
Timed to coincide with the new 'Dash and Lily' series on Netflix comes a new helping of love - with authors Rachel Cohn and David Levithan bringing Dash and Lily to England! Dash and Lily are feeling closer than ever so it's too bad that they're also an ocean apart. After Dash gets accepted to Oxford University and Lily stays in New York, the couple are struggling to make a long distance relationship work. And when Dash breaks the news that he won't be coming home to New York for Christmas, Lily makes a decision: if Dash can't come to New York, she'll go to London. But will Lily pull off the ultimate surprise?
New story timed to coincide with the release of the Netflix series
- Super fake love song by David Yoon
When Sunny Dae - self-proclaimed total nerd - meets Cirrus Soh, he can't believe how cool and confident she is. So when Cirrus mistakes Sunny's older brother Gray's bedroom - with its collection of electric guitars and rock posters - for Sunny's own, he sort of, kind of, accidentally winds up telling her he's the front man of a rock band. Before he knows it, Sunny is knee-deep in the lie: he ropes his best friends into his scheme, begging them to form a fake band with him, and starts wearing Gray's rock and roll castoffs. But there's no way can he trick this amazing girl into thinking he's cool, right? Just when Sunny is about to come clean, Cirrus asks to see them play sometime. Gulp. Now, there's only one thing to do: fake it till you make it.
From the author of Frankly in love