Author: Tirzah Price

Sage is a volleyball player on track to becoming a college athlete when a devastating health diagnosis leaves her sidelined–for good. Len is a loner photographer who is reeling from a traumatic event. When the two girls connect, a tentative friendship blossoms between them. But when Len’s trauma gets serious and Sage doesn’t seem to take her health seriously, the girls have to look out for one another and discover the power of friendship.

Solomon has agoraphobia and hasn’t left his house in three years. Lisa wants to get into a great college, so she thinks if she can befriend Solomon, cure his agoraphobia, and then write about it in her admissions essay, she’ll be a shoo-in. She drags along her boyfriend Clark to help earn Solomon’s trust, but when all three develop a genuine friendship, exposing the truth about how they all met becomes more important than ever.

Grace’s mom has schizophrenia and she struggled for years before disappearing altogether, afraid she’d hurt her family. Now, Grace and her father are devoted to the lab that is researching a cure. Grace interns with the genome sequencing team, and one day she thinks that she might have found a vital discovery…but is the discovery really significant, or a sign that she’s inherited her mother’s illness?

Malaysian teen Melati Ahmad considers herself fairly normal, except for the djinn that lives inside her, convincing her that her mother will die unless she satisfies him with elaborate rituals. But then a night out to the movies turns deadly when a race riot breaks out in Kuala Lumpur and suddenly it takes all of Mel’s strength and the help of a few surprising strangers if she’s to survive the night and reunite with her mother.

Darius is an Iranian American teen living with depression, and he struggles to fit in and make friends at home, where he’s considered too Iranian. When an illness in his family means he and his parents and sister must travel to Iran unexpectedly, Darius meets his Iranian family for the first time and finds a true friend in his grandparents’ neighbor…but in Iran, his depression isn’t understood, and he is considered “too American.” Darius must find a way to reconcile his multiple identities, and make peace with who he is.

Like she did with His Hideous Heart, Adler has again collected a top notch bunch of YA authors to retell various Shakespeare plays and sonnets! Contributors include Dahlia Adler (reimagining The Merchant of Venice), Kayla Ancrum (The Taming of the Shrew), Lily Anderson (As You Like It), Melissa Bashardoust (A Winter’s Tale), Patrice Caldwell (Hamlet), A. R. Capetta and Cori McCarthy (Much Ado About Nothing), Brittany Cavallaro (Sonnet 147), Joy McCullough (King Lear), Anna-Marie McLemore (Midsummer Night’s Dream), Samantha Mabry (Macbeth), Tochi Onyebuchi (Coriolanus), Mark Oshiro (Twelfth Night), Lindsay Smith (Julius Caesar), Kiersten White (Romeo and Juliet), and Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka (The Tempest).

Fat is not a bad word, and in this diverse and intersectional collection, fat teens get a chance to shine as the exciting and nuanced individuals they are! Contributors include Nafiza Azad, Chris Baron, Sheena Boekweg, Linda Camacho, Kelly deVos, Alex Gino, Claire Kann, amanda lovelace, Hillary Monahan, Cassandra Newbould, Francina Simone, Rebecca Sky, Monique Gray Smith, Renée Watson, Catherine Adel West, and Jennifer Yen.

If you love love, and you love all of the deliciously fun and angsty romantic tropes that come in the romance genre, this anthology is for you! Contributors include Rebecca Barrow, Ashley Herring Blake, Gloria Chao, Mason Deaver, Sara Farizan, Claire Kann, Malinda Lo, Hannah Moskowitz, Natasha Ngan, Rebecca Podos, Lilliam Rivera, Laura Silverman, Amy Spalding, Rebecca Kim Wells, and Julian Winters.

Are you a night owl? Do you love it when darkness envelopes the world, most people are asleep, and it feels like anything can happen? These stories are for you! Contributors include Brandy Colbert, Kathleen Glasgow, Maurene Goo, Tiffany D. Jackson, Amanda Joy, Nina LaCour, Karen M. McManus, Anna Meriano, Marieke Nijkamp, Laura Silverman, Kayla Whaley, Julian Winters, and Francesca Zappia.

The Mexican American experience is diverse, and these stories are more important than ever. This anthology includes short stories, essays, and poetry from a range of contributors, including Francisco X. Stork, Guadalupe Garcia McCall, David Bowles, Rubén Degollado, e.E. Charlton-Trujillo, Diana López, Xavier Garza, Trinidad Gonzales, Alex Temblador, Aida Salazar, Guadalupe Ruiz-Flores, Sylvia Sánchez Garza, Dominic Carrillo, Angela Cervantes, Carolyn Dee Flores, René Saldaña Jr., Justine Narro, Daniel García Ordáz, and Anna Meriano. 

The Latinx diaspora is rich and varied, and definitely can’t be contained by stereotypes. In this anthology, some of the most prominent Latinx writers in kidlit and YA today tell stories that challenge and celebrate Latinx myths and ideas of culture and identity. Contributors include Elizabeth Acevedo, Cristina Arreola, Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Naima Coster, Natasha Diaz, Saraciea J. Fennell, Kahlil Haywood, Zakiya Jamal, Janel Martinez, Jasminne Mendez, Meg Medina, Mark Oshiro, Julian Randall, Lilliam Rivera, and Ibi Zoboi.

Former Hey YA cohost Eric Smith is collaborating with Lauren Gibaldi to bring us an exciting collection of short stories all set at a school’s battle of the bands! I love an anthology that shares a setting and overlaps in characters, and this one is sure to rock–pun intended! Contributors include Brittany Cavallaro, Preeti Chhibber, Jay Coles, Katie Cotugno, Lauren Gibaldi, Shaun David Hutchinson, Ashley Poston, Jenny Torres Sanchez, Sarah Nicole Smetana, Eric Smith, Jenn Marie Thorne, Sarvenaz Taghavian, Jasmine Warga, Ashley Woodfolk, and Jeff Zentner, and featuring Motion City Soundtrack’s Justin Courtney Pierre.