She has just started her writing career and has written only 4 books so far, However, author Poston has achieved a great success in her short career. It’s a fun romp through geek culture, as two teens go looking for someone, and consequently find themselves.Ashley Poston is a well known American author, who likes to write contemporary, young adult, and science fiction books. See, Ana’s little brother ditches school to go to a sci-fi con, and she needs to recruit Zak, a hardcore geek that convinced her younger brother to go, to find him. Luckily, the story inside is just as fun, focusing on two teenagers on a quest at a sci-fi convention… to find one of their little brothers. THE IMPROBABLE THEORY OF ANA AND ZAK by Brian Katcher: It’s hard not to want to scoop this one up just for its lovely pixelated cover. Some of the contributors include David Levithan, Libba Bray, and Lisa Yee, so yeah… pick this one up, and enjoy 15 geeky stories from some wonderful writers.

The stories aren’t just set at comic con, but a few are, with cosplay contests. GEEKTASTIC by Holly Black and Cecil Castellucci: Edited by YA rockstars Holly Black and Cecil Castellucci, this anthology has a lot of nerdy stories in it, with illustrations from Hope Larson and Bryan Lee O’Malley. Set around New York Comic Con, Tash’s novel is about Graham plotting the ultimate way to tell Roxy how he feels, once and for all.

THE GEEK’S GUIDE TO UNREQUITED LOVE by Sarvenaz Tash: Graham and Roxy, two neighbors who have been friends for nearly a decade… and poor Graham has been dreaming of them being more since the day Roxy moved into his life. It’s a wonderfully geeky novel about friendships and fandom, with a trio of BFFs learning about themselves and what they really want. QUEENS OF GEEK by Jen Wilde: Here’s another recent YA contemporary, that just came out last month, with a wonderfully diverse cast of characters and a feminist bent. I’ve gone ahead and rounded up some of my favorites.

Now, you’d be surprised at how many YA novels there are set at conventions. Between the clever ways the Cinderella story has been reimagined, such as a food truck named The Magic Pumpkin in lieu of… well, an actual magic pumpkin, to the wonderful nods to geek culture, it combines so much of what I love in a good YA read geekery, fantasy, sci-fi, and a swoon-filled contemporary love story.

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