{"id":17775,"date":"2021-04-26T13:40:23","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T17:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.readbrightly.com\/?p=17775"},"modified":"2021-04-28T16:39:24","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T20:39:24","slug":"ya-books-patience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.readbrightly.com\/ya-books-patience\/","title":{"rendered":"10 YA Books That Prove Some Things Are Worth Your Patience"},"content":{"rendered":"

Patience is a virtue. Our 21st century, always-on digital culture can make it feel like now<\/em> is the only option. But soon <\/em>also has its place. In a while <\/em>does, too.<\/p>\n

Along with \u201cPatience is a virtue\u201d comes the aphorism \u201cGood things come to those who wait.\u201d These 10 YA books can help teens understand that even if things aren\u2019t perfect right this moment, they might work out in time<\/em> with hope, a little luck, and a whole lot of patience. <\/em><\/p>\n

no no 9780593114353 The Valley and the Flood<\/i> https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/610618\/the-valley-and-the-flood-by-rebecca-mahoney\/9780593114353?ref=PRH06C9ECE222&aid=randohouseinc22957-20&linkid=PRH06C9ECE222 by Rebecca Mahoney <\/p>\n

A road trip interrupted. When Rose Colter\u2019s car breaks down between Las Vegas and San Diego, she finds herself in the town of Lotus Valley. As she waits for her car to get repaired, it becomes clear that she is not there by accident. It\u2019s here that Rose\u2019s tragic past \u2014 the death of her best friend Gaby \u2014 collides with the surreal present. \u201cPart allegory, part psychological thriller, this suspenseful debut is a moving study of grief, regret, and PTSD,\u201d says Publishers Weekly<\/a><\/i>. <\/p>\n

9780593108970 Watch Over Me<\/i> https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/622607\/watch-over-me-by-nina-lacour\/9780593108970?ref=PRH06C9ECE222&aid=randohouseinc22957-20&linkid=PRH06C9ECE222 by Nina LaCour <\/p>\n

How long must a foster child wait for their true family? Watch Over Me<\/i> follows 18-year-old Mila from foster care to a farm in remote Northern California, where she\u2019s secured an internship working with other foster youth. But alongside those kids, other interns, and the couple who run the farm, ghosts coax Mila to confront her past. \u201cI feel like we\u2019re all surrounded by ghosts all the time, whether or not we want to look at them,\u201d LaCour told BookPage<\/a>. \u201cGhosts of who we once were, ghosts of the people we\u2019ve lost or lost touch with, ghosts of what might have been if our lives had moved in different directions.\u201d<\/p>\n

9780593202876 How It All Blew Up<\/i> https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/625445\/how-it-all-blew-up-by-arvin-ahmadi\/9780593202876?ref=PRH06C9ECE222&aid=randohouseinc22957-20&linkid=PRH06C9ECE222 by Arvin Ahmadi <\/p>\n

\u201cA story of coming out and coming-of-age in a post\u20139\/11 world,\u201d says Kirkus Reviews<\/a><\/i>. Anyone who has anxiously planned and plotted how to come out \u2014 especially to a conservative family \u2014 waiting for the \u201cright\u201d moment can be one of the most challenging parts. In How It All Blew Up<\/i>, 18-year-old Amir Azadi flees the U.S. for Rome to avoid being outed but then finds himself forced to come out in the most unlikely of places: an airport interrogation room. <\/p>\n

9781524739034 The Kingdom of Back<\/i> https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/554129\/the-kingdom-of-back-by-marie-lu\/9781524739034?ref=PRH06C9ECE222&aid=randohouseinc22957-20&linkid=PRH06C9ECE222 by Marie Lu <\/p>\n

In this historical YA fantasy, Nannerl is the other<\/i> Mozart \u2014 the older sister of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. A gifted musician in her own right, who aspires to be a world-renown composer, she waits and watches as her brother\u2019s fate rises while hers, as a woman in 18th century Europe, leaves her resigned to little more than marriage. Then a mystical prince from a fantasy world makes her an offer that could give her everything she wants \u2014 but at what cost?<\/p>\n

For fans of Lu, The Kingdom of Back<\/i> will be a departure. \u201cThis novel is unlike anything else she\u2019s published. It is historical fact transformed into a fairy tale and twisted into a tragedy,\u201d says Tor<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n

9780425288085 All the Days Past, All the Days to Come<\/i> https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/309917\/all-the-days-past-all-the-days-to-come-by-mildred-d-taylor\/9780425288085?ref=PRH06C9ECE222&aid=randohouseinc22957-20&linkid=PRH06C9ECE222 by Mildred D. Taylor <\/p>\n

In the final book of the 40-year saga featuring the Logan family of Mississippi, Cassie Logan\u2019s story arc is punctuated by key moments in the civil rights movement \u2014 itself a long time in the making. <\/p>\n

9780525555254 Last Night at the Telegraph Club<\/i> https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/565819\/last-night-at-the-telegraph-club-by-malinda-lo\/9780525555254?ref=PRH06C9ECE222&aid=randohouseinc22957-20&linkid=PRH06C9ECE222 by Malinda Lo <\/p>\n

This coming-out story blossoms in San Francisco\u2019s Chinatown in the 1950s. It\u2019s no safe haven for queer women or Chinese immigrants, but for 17-year-old Lily Hu, who is second-generation Chinese, that\u2019s the backdrop against which she slowly finds her true self \u2014 and love. \u201cI wrote Lily and Kath\u2019s love story in the way I felt it would naturally develop in real life,\u201d Lo told We Need Diverse Books<\/a>. \u201cI didn\u2019t think of it as a slow burn romance in that trope sense; rather, I thought of it as a coming of age story.\u201d<\/p>\n

9781101931288 Tess of the Road<\/i> https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/253139\/tess-of-the-road-by-rachel-hartman\/9781101931288?ref=PRH06C9ECE222&aid=randohouseinc22957-20&linkid=PRH06C9ECE222 by Rachel Hartman <\/p>\n

Every journey requires some degree of patience \u2014 in particular, those voyages of self-discovery. In Tess of the Road<\/i>, written by beloved YA fantasy author Rachel Hartman, Tess \u2014 twin sister of Jeanne and sister of Seraphina \u2014 runs away. \u201cTess does not strike out in search of adventure \u2014 she’s a deeply wounded young woman struggling to survive the wreck of her life,\u201d explains NPR<\/a> reviewer Amal El-Mohtar. \u201cHer time on the road is a sustained project in outgrowing the painful, intimate traumas that have defined her up until this point.\u201d<\/p>\n

9780375845604 Bridge of Clay<\/i> https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/196150\/bridge-of-clay-by-markus-zusak\/9780375845604?ref=PRH06C9ECE222&aid=randohouseinc22957-20&linkid=PRH06C9ECE222 by Markus Zusak <\/p>\n

Sometimes patience is the backdrop for the creation of the book itself. By the acclaimed Australian writer Markus Zusak, author of The Book Thief<\/a><\/i>, Bridge of Clay<\/i> is a book two decades in the making. \u201cSuch perseverance is awe-inspiring but risky, for all the reasons this new novel makes plain,\u201d writes Ron Charles for The Washington Post<\/a><\/i>. <\/p>\n

Bridge of Clay<\/i> is a sprawling family saga about five brothers abandoned by their parents \u2014 the mother, to cancer, the father, to grief \u2014 and their long healing journey.<\/p>\n

9780385755955 Holding Up the Universe<\/i> https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/237457\/holding-up-the-universe-by-jennifer-niven\/?ref=PRH06C9ECE222&aid=randohouseinc22957-20&linkid=PRH06C9ECE222 by Jennifer Niven <\/p>\n

Libby Strout \u2014 once known as \u201cAmerica\u2019s fattest teen\u201d and Jack Masselin \u2014 who has personal challenges of his own \u2014 struggle to find their places, not just in high school, but in the world itself. And that\u2019s no easy process. A high school prank lands them both in counseling and community service, where they begin to embrace their whole selves. \u201cThat is why I wrote Holding Up the Universe<\/i> \u2014 to let readers know that big, small, tall, short, pretty, plain, friendly, shy, they are wanted,\u201d Jennifer Niven wrote in Bustle<\/a>. \u201cThey are necessary. They are loved.\u201d <\/p>\n

9781101934746 Girl in Pieces<\/i> https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/530119\/girl-in-pieces-by-kathleen-glasgow\/ by Kathleen Glasgow <\/p>\n

The road to recovery is never short. Seventeen-year-old Charlotte \u201cCharlie\u201d Davis, who has endured more loss and trauma than most people can bear, finds herself in treatment after a suicide attempt. And her journey from self-harm to healing is gritty and evocative.<\/p>\n

\u201cLike most issue books, this is not an easy read, but it’s poignant and transcendent as Charlie breaks more and more before piecing herself back together,\u201d says Kirkus Reviews<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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