This paper discusses the novels of the contemporary author for children and young people, Jasminka Tihi-Stepanić. Her literary journey begins with the novel Imaš fejs? in 2011. After her debut novel, the author published the novel Bacit ću ti kompjutor kroz prozor in 2013. She also published novels Moja neprijateljica Ana (2015), Dom iza žice (2017), Ljeto na jezeru Čiču (2018), Gdje je Beata? (2020), Rukavica za Matildu (2021) and the first Croatian dystopian novel for young people Dan kada sam ubrala cvijet (2023). It deals with topics that are very close to teenagers, real life problems that most young people can identify with, and some can find solace for their problems. Her topics are often related to general social situations (corona virus, addiction to social networks, earthquake, work abroad, divorce, etc.). After "real" social-psychological and socially critical novels for children and young people with themes from real, real life, with her latest novel, Dan kada sam ubrala cvijet, the author creates a picture of an imagined future and shows what it's like to live in a high-tech world, full of rules, regulations and unfreedom. In this paper, her novels are treated thematically, the approach to the characters, the narrative-stylistic aspects of the novels and their ideological and worldview levels are studied. Most of the author's novels use narration in the first person singular, and quite often the diary form. Each of her novels has interesting and current ideas and worldviews that are always based on humanistic values. The paper also analyzes the lexical layers of the author's novels, which are mostly full of jargon, as well as other linguistic aspects that make her novels even more interesting and current.