Tomorrow is Bastille Day! To commemorate this day check out some French authors who have had their titles for teen readers published in the US and teen novels that center on French culture and history. Joyeux Quatorze Juillet!
French Authors
No and Me by Delphine de Vigan (2011 Best Fiction for Young Adults)
Life as It Comes by Anne-Laure Bondoux
Vango by Timothée de Fombelle (2015 Top Ten Best Fiction for Young Adults)
When I was a Soldier by Valérie Zenatti (2006 Best Books for Young Adults)
Winter’s End by Jean-Claude Morlevat
I Love I Hate I Miss My Sister by Amélie Sarn
Last Man, Vol. 1: The Stranger by Balak, Sanlaville, Vivés
Set in Paris
Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins (2012 Readers’ Choice, 2012 Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults, 2012 Best Fiction for Young Adults)
Die for Me by Amy Plum
Beautiful Americans by Lucy Silag
Marie Antoinette, Serial Killer by Katie Alender (2015 Quick Picks for Reluctant Readers)
Starry Nights by Daisy Whitney
Gadget Girl: the art of being invisible by Suzanne Kamata
Just One Day by Gayle Forman (2014 Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults, 2014 Best Fiction for Young Adults)
Bandette in Presto! by Paul Tobin and Colleen Coover (2014 Great Graphic Novels)
Historical Fiction Set in France
The Beautiful and the Cursed by Page Morgan
A Darkness Strange and Lovely by Susan Dennard
Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly (2011 Odyssey Honor Audiobook, 2013 Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults, 2011 Top Ten Best Fiction for Young Adults)
Belle Epoque by Elizabeth Ross (2014 Morris Award Finalist)
The Pale Assassin by Patricia Elliott
The Red Necklace by Sally Gardner (2009 Best Books for Young Adults)
Under a War Torn Sky by L.M. Elliott
Sovay by Celia Rees
Grave Mercy by Robin LaFevers (2013 Teen Top Ten Nominee, 2013 Best Fiction for Young Adults)
Blue Flame by K.M. Grant
The Revolution of Sabine by Beth Levine Ain
–Colleen Seisser, currently reading Antigoddess by Kendare Blake
