Hey YA Readers: Let’s catch up on the latest in YA haps.
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Let’s take a peek at the world of recent YA news:
- Jimmy Fallon’s book club will launch with The Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi.
- Not one. Not two. But three! YA pilots have been ordered by Amazon. The impending doom for YA adaptations that was predicted over and over continues to be disproven.
- PBS’s “The Great American Read” put together a pretty nice video about the history of YA literature. It’s quick and short, so unable to be comprehensive, but a really great primer for those curious.
- This Cleveland teenager wins heroine of the year.
- Megan Whalen Turner fans rejoice! The sixth book in “The Queen’s Thief” series is coming next spring.
- Ibi Zoboi’s upcoming anthology Black Enough has a stellar list of authors and a stellar cover.
- Samira Ahmed’s Internment looks and sounds incredible.
- You’ll get chills watching the full trailer for The Hate U Give.
- 3 YA writers talk about why they wrote asexual main characters in their novels.
- Check out the trailer for To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before, hitting Netflix next month.
- Readers who are eager for Marcus Zusak’s new book Bridge of Clay might want to know he’s touring the US in October.
- We have another name attached to the adaptation of The Sun is Also a Star, too.
- Anna Todd’s After adaptation has a star for its lead.
- Though the first titles will be middle grade, knowing he’s a name in the YA world, it’s worth sharing that RL Stine is doing some graphic novels.
- Want to add some books hitting shelves next year to your TBR? Here are a pile of cover reveals for Harper’s Winter 2019 YA books.
- And some upcoming YA from Penguin (including a new AS King).
Me after seeing @TheHateUGive for the first time. To @George_Tillman, @amandlastenberg, and the entire cast and crew, from the bottom of my heart, thank you. Phenomenal is an understatement. pic.twitter.com/rabwbAdVhg
— Angie Thomas (@angiecthomas) June 29, 2018
Cheap Reads
Grab ’em while they’re hot and super affordable ebooks.
Maureen Johnson’s 13 Little Blue Envelopes is $2.
Grab a copy of Victoria Schwab’s This Savage Song for $2.
If you want some pirate adventure in your reading life, you’ll want to drop $2 for LA Meyer’s Bloody Jack.
Akemi Dawn Bowman’s Morris-nominated Starfish is $2.
Pick up Stacey Lee’s Secret of a Heart Note for $2.
Keeping Her Secret by Sarah Nicolas — one of our very own Book Rioters — is $1. Today’s the last day on the sale, so grab it ASAP.
Blast From The Past
A handful of Book Riot YA pieces from this month in years gone by:
- 25 great books for readers smack between middle grade and YA books.
- Awesome Asian-American protagonists in YA lit.
- 65 great YA horror reads by female authors.
- Fantastic feminist reads for young adults (includes books across all age categories that YA readers would like).
- Jessica Wakefield: Literary Fashion Icon.
- What are grownups afraid of in YA books?
This Week’s Book Mail
Curious what books are coming soon? Here’s a peek at the YA titles that hit my mailbox this week:
A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Tahereh Mafi
When We Caught Fire by Anna Godbersen
Sawkill Girls by Claire LeGrande
Broken Things by Lauren Oliver
This Is Kind of An Epic Love Story by Kheryn Callender
That Night by Amy Giles
The Loneliest Girl in the Universe by Lauren James
Open Mic Night at Westminster Cemetery by Mary Amato
Girls On The Line by Jennie Liu
I, Claudia by Mary McCoy
Campfire by Shawn Sarles
Sea Prayer by Khaled Hosseini
The Unwanted: Stories of Syrian Refugees by Don Brown
Rad Girls Can by Kate Schatz
You Are The Everything by Karen Rivers (not pictured)
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See you all back here next week!
–Kelly Jensen, @veronikellymars on Twitter and Instagram.