In the opening scene of Bray's riveting debut novel set in Victorian times, narrator Gemma Doyle walks the streets of Bombay, India, with her mother on her 16th birthday. By the end of the second ...

Deep in the Dodauer Forest in northern Germany, there is a 500-year-old moss-covered oak tree surrounded by a low wooden fence. A ladder leaning against the tree leads to a knothole where, for over ...

A great character can often elevate a perfectly pleasant book into an excellent read. And Libba Bray’s The Diviners is not what you’d call a pleasant read — it’s creepy good fun — but its characters ...

"Under the Same Stars" marks Bray's first book since 2020. Libba Bray has been weaving stories to enchant YA readers for over two decades now. But her latest might be her most ambitious novel yet (and ...

The Diviners by Libba Bray; Little Brown, 578 pages ($19.99) Ages 12 and up. Libba Bray, winner of the Michael Printz Award for "Going Bovine," launches a new trilogy for Young Adults with this ...