10 YA book releases to stay warm and cozy with this November

Across a Broken Shore by Amy Trueblood

Historical fiction is one of the best genres to cozy up with during the winter months, and Amy Trueblood is coming out with a historical young adult novel that will transport readers back in time — and then give them all the feelings, because what else would we expect?

Across a Broken Shore follows 18-year-old Wilhelmina MacCarthy — or Willa — who has been raised to believe her single purpose is to become a nun. That isn’t the life Willa wants for herself, but given that it’s 1936, her options are fairly limited. There’s only so long she can keep sneaking into one of San Francisco’s medical clinics to help Doctor Katharine Winston before she gets caught.

Keeping up that double life is difficult enough, but when Willa begins working at a hospital near the Golden Gate bridge and meets an ironworker she’s attracted to, things become even more complicated. What will she need to do to stop hiding from her true desires and actually embrace them?

Trueblood’s newest novel sounds like one that fans of coming-of-age stories will enjoy, and Willa seems like a protagonist that would be easy to relate to. (We love when a leading lady can have a calling and a romance, especially in a setting that historically wouldn’t have condoned such a thing.) Across a Broken Shore hit shelves on November 5.