Author Interview: Laura Moe talks “Breakfast with Neruda”

“Breakfast with Neruda” is a novel that follows the life of two troubled teenagers named, Michael and Shelly, as they try to solve Michael’s situation and discover who they are while serving out their community service duties (click here for…

Ten YA Series to Binge Read

2016 seems to be the year for final books in series being released. It can be hard to keep track of so we’ve put together a compilation of some well-loved or highly-anticipated series that you should check out if you…

TYF Column: What Are We Reading?

I used to read all the time. I know this is a common phrase people say to justify how little they read now, but I truly mean it; you couldn’t drag a book out of my hands once I’d grown…

TYF’s Best YA adaptations of the last ten years

With Allegiant arriving to theaters this weekend, us at the TheYoungFolks have decided to look back at the last ten years and single out the very best of the YA genre. Deciding to not keep to stricter limitations of what YA means,…

Read of the Week: ‘Has to Be Love’ by Jolene Perry

Has to Be Love by Jolene Perry Once upon a time, Clara was a normal girl; she went to school, she went to church, she fell in love with her best friend. That was all before she was involved in…

Book Review: ‘The Accident Season’ by Moïra Fowley-Doyle

To be honest, I wasn’t expecting much when I first started reading Moïra Fowley-Doyle’s The Accident Season. The plot brings up images of a really klutzy family, not some dark curse placed upon a family with secrets. To say that The Accident Season was a…

Book Review: ‘Red Girl, Blue Boy’ by Lauren Baratz-Logsted

Bloomsbury’s contemporary If Only romance line is very hit or miss. Red Girl, Blue Boy completely missed the mark; not only that, but it obliterated anything that bore even a slight resemblance to the mark, leaving cheese and shudders in its wake.…