Community Guidelines (Please Read Me First!) Hi! Welcome to the Young Authors and Teen Fiction community! It's really important that we all be respectful of each other, regardless of our views and opinions. It's understandable we're all...
New Members: Introduce yourself! Hello! It's great to have you here in the Young Authors & Teen Fiction community! I'm guessing that we're all here because we have a genre in common, but it would be great to hear more about...
Should my book be here? I've started writing a short story which I don't think really fits in any other genre so I've just put it here because I am young, or does the content of your story need to be targeted towards...
Whoop whoop! Just uploaded a chapter to two of my books, Below Moons and Battlefields, and I realised I actually jump around genres quite a lot. Do any of you guys write in a specific genre, and why have you...
Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow Tablo Chapters Young Adult Already a sensation around the world, this is the tale of a cursed girl who escapes death and finds herself in a magical world - but is then tested beyond her wildest imagination. 'Readers will feel as though Harry Potter is meeting Alice in Wonde...
The Undercurrent Paula Weston Young Adult Eighteen-year-old Julianne De Marchi is different. As in: she has an electrical undercurrent beneath her skin that stings and surges like a live wire. She can use it—to spark a fire, maybe even end a life—but she doesn’t understand what it is. And...
Beautiful Mess Claire Christian Young Adult 'Beautiful Mess' is funny and sad and a bit screwed up and romantic and absolutely real. In other words, a lot like life. The winner of the 2016 Text Prize.
Take Three Girls Cath Crowley, Simmone Howell, Fiona Wood Young Adult ADY - not the confident A-Lister she appears to be. KATE - brainy boarder taking risks to pursue the music she loves. CLEM - disenchanted swim-star losing her heart to the wrong boy. All are targeted by PSST, a toxic website that deals in gossip ...
The Impossible Story Of Olive In Love Tonya Alexandra Young Adult 'Seventeen and never been kissed. For me it’s not just a cliché—it’s a terminal condition.' Plagued by a gypsy curse that she’ll be invisible to all but her true love, seventeen-year-old Olive is understandably bitter. Her mother is dead; her fath...
October is the Coldest Month Christoffer Carlsson Crime Fiction Love Nordic noir? Sample this edgy and compelling thriller that won the Swedish Crime Writer Academy’s 2016 Best Crime Novel of the Year for Young Readers. Published in Australia by Scribe.
Have Sword, Will Travel Garth Nix & Sean Williams Children's Fiction From New York Times bestselling authors Garth Nix and Sean Williams, comes this hilarious, action-packed adventure featuring a very unlikely knight, an admirably stubborn girl, and a sword with attitude. Published by Allen & Unwin.
Love YA? Q&A Take Three Writers Tablo Young Adult This is a Q&A with award-winning authors Cath Crowley, Simmone Howell and Fiona Wood who recently wrote 'Take Three Girls' together. They share advice on writing and publishing, as well as juicy details about the collaborative writing process on t...
Take Three Girls Cath Crowley, Simmone Howell, Fiona Wood Young Adult ADY - not the confident A-Lister she appears to be. KATE - brainy boarder taking risks to pursue the music she loves. CLEM - disenchanted swim-star losing her heart to the wrong boy. All are targeted by PSST, a toxic website that deals in gossip ...
The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett Mary Lennox is a sour-faced 10-year-old girl, who is born in India to selfish wealthy British parents who had not wanted her and were too wrapped up in their own lives. She was taken care of primarily by servants, who pacify her as much as possibl...
The Arabian Nights Andrew Lang One Thousand and One Nights is a collection of stories collected over many centuries by various authors, translators and scholars in various countries across the Middle East and South Asia. These collections of tales trace their roots back to anc...
A Little Princess Frances Hodgson Burnett Generations of children have treasured the story of Sara Crewe, the little girl who imagines she's a princess in order to survive hard times at Miss Minchins London boarding school.
Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) J.M. Barrie Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up and Peter and Wendy are the stage play and novel (respectively) which tell the story of Peter Pan, a mischievous little boy who can fly, and his adventures on the island of Neverland with Wendy Darling an...
The Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling The Jungle Book (1894) is a collection of stories written by Rudyard Kipling.The tales in the book (and also those in The Second Jungle Book which followed in 1895, and which includes five further stories about Mowgli) are fables, using animals in...
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) is a novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells the story of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit-hole into a fantasy world popul...
The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame The Wind in the Willows is a classic of children's literature by Kenneth Grahame, first published in 1908. Alternately slow moving and fast paced, it focuses on four anthropomorphised animal characters in a pastoral version of England. The novel i...
The Book of Dragons Edith Nesbit Eight madcap tales of unpredictable dragons — including one made of ice, another that takes refuge in the General Post Office, and a fire-breathing monster that flies out of an enchanted book and eats an entire soccer team!
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Howard Pyle Howard Pyle relates the story of the English outlaw Robin Hood and his band of Merry Men, compiling the traditional material into a coherent narrative in a colorful, invented "old English" idiom that preserves the flavor of the ballads, and adapts...
Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson While going through the possessions of a deceased guest who owed them money, the mistress of the inn and her son find a treasure map that leads them to a pirate's fortune.
Stories for Parents, Children and Grandchildren - Volume 1 Paulo Coelho “Stories for Parents, Children and Grandchildren” is a stroll through the universal traditions and legends, lulled by the unforgettable magic words “Once upon a time…” This book by Paulo Coelho contains joyful, amazing and dramatic stories for re...
Little Lord Fauntleroy Frances Hodgson Burnett In mid-1880s Brooklyn, New York, Cedric Errol lives with his Mother (never named, known only as Mrs Errol or "dearest") in genteel poverty after his Father Captain Errol dies. They receive a visit from Havisham, an English lawyer with a message fr...
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Lyman Frank Baum Dorothy is a young girl who lives on a Kansas farm with her Uncle Henry, Aunt Em, and little dog Toto. One day the farmhouse, with Dorothy inside, is caught up in a tornado and deposited in a field in the country of the Munchkins. The falling hous...
The Happy Prince and Other Tales Oscar Wilde The Happy Prince and Other Tales (sometimes called The Happy Prince and Other Stories) is a collection of stories for children by Oscar Wilde first published in May 1888. It contains five stories, "The Happy Prince", "The Nightingale and the Rose"...
A House of Pomegranates Oscar Wilde A House of Pomegranates is a collection of whimisical short stories by Oscar Wilde. This collections includes the following tales: The Young King, The Birthday of the Infanta, The Fisherman and his Soul, and The Star-child. Readers of all ages wil...
Left Queen of Hearts Young Adult Claire has never left the bomb shelter. She's never seen Earth as it used to be before the Cataclysm that scorched every living thing, except the people who hid in the bunker. It's been 104 years, and it's still believed to be unsafe to breathe ...
Hold On Abrar Salman Poetry Here are a bunch of reasons why you should stay. Because, believe me, it gets better. Or does it? You decide.
The Missing Pieces William Nguyen Fantasy Fiction Oliver Sandle is a gifted 13-year-old who can solve almost any puzzle thrown at him. With the help of his best friend Henry Locks, Oliver sets out to solve the greatest puzzle in his life: the mysterious disappearance of his father. It all starts ...
The Battle of Bologna S B War Set towards the end of WW2 in Italy, following a group of German soldiers facing what seems to be their inevitable doom unless they act fast.
Yuki Yuki KaidoHakerman Join Yuki Nakayama and her circle of friends through their final year of high school!
Lasting Dominik Guerrero Fiction To get away from the stresses of life, a boy named Nathan joins a traveling group to venture into the world for a temporary escape away from reality. Little does he know though that the path he and others have agreed to join is something more than...
Teenagers in Eden Denise Glickler Young Adult Teenagers find themselves in the Garden of Eden. They come from different religions, different countries, different cultures, different wealth levels, and different goals. The only things they have in common are they each come with a backpack of "...
A Penny for your Thoughts E.D. Squadroni Young Adult On Nantucket Island, the Court is one of the last cities to lose control of their government system. The Fatalities have taken over not only the United States but the entire world as we know it. They strive for ultimate perfection with the use of ...
Declining Destiny Alexa Jones Romantic Fiction When all else fails in this world you can create your own. At least that's how Elena escapes her troubled reality. She is tormented and pushed around by everyone in her present, and haunted by those in her past. She can't find love with the one wh...
Damienalla Andrea Baxcy Fantasy Fiction Spider is the story of dominion and revenge and the supernatural.
RINGS OF THE ZODIAC. Aries uprising Panda Writer Fantasy Fiction Meet nineteen year old Alice, can't wait for the seventh moon ceremony in her kingdom to happen , where every moon ceremony chooses it's ring master. Ones who are able to weld the power of any zodiac sign , But when she is choosing to become a ...
ORACLE OF THE CROWN F.A. Idi This book is about a girl who lived alone for most of her life, but soon loved by people who she’s never thought existed. Keep reading for the magic to happen...
Gaia, The Last Immortal Ragulose Fantasy Fiction The people of Earth have become prejudicial, hateful, and destructive; a small group of them gained the ability to manipulate mana; they call it magic. While they are the minority, these magic users, use their magic to control everyone and everyth...