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There’s so much great YA book news to dig into this week and I can’t wait to share!

The release date for the adaptation of The Hate U Give was moved up two weeks! And here are 5 things to know about the film.
Laurie Halse Anderson’s upcoming YA memoir Shout has a cover, and it’s a great homage to Speak.
This year’s long list for the National Book Award in Young People’s Literature is INCREDIBLE.
We’re getting a graphic novel adaptation of Jason Reynolds’s Long Way Down.
Dolly Parton announces that Dumplin‘ is headed to Netflix. This is a really smart move on Netflix’s part.
Renee Watson’s next book is beautiful from cover to theme and I cannot wait to get my hands on it.
The New York Times highlighted the ways that authors for young readers are becoming leading activists and voices for change.
Another great YA piece at the New York Times focuses on using YA books in an era of #MeToo.
There’s a Nancy Drew drama in the works for the CW.
Follow up that news with a piece about the not-so-hidden racism in Nancy Drew.
A little teaser of Raven Cycle adaptation news.
Susan Dennard’s The Witchlands is in the works to become a live action TV series.
Another gorgeous cover for the second book in Dhonielle Clayton’s The Belles series.
11 ways to know you’re a YA reader, according to Goodreads users.
I’m not a Sweet Valley reader (Er, rather, never was as a young reader), but this piece should be fun reading for those who were: the weirdness of the “evil twin” books.
Ned Vizzini’s Be More Chill is transferring to Broadway.
Mrs. Doubtfire, which is based on a YA book, is being made into a musical.
Kyoshi from Avatar is getting her own YA series.
A tiny bit more news about the Amazon pilot being done for Lauren Oliver’s Panic.
I’m madly in love with this Slytherin wedding.
Remember that bad Wall Street Journal article about YA (no, not that one. The other one)? There’s a nice selection of letters to the editor refuting it, including one by yours truly.
Lena Dunham pens a lengthy love letter to SE Hinton’s The Outsiders.
Let one of the masters of ghost stories in YA — Nova Ren Suma — recommend some other ghost stories to read this season.

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Recent Book Mail

Lots of book mail in the last couple of weeks. You might want your TBR at the ready for this. Listed from top to bottom, left stack then right.

Unnatural Disasters by Jeff Hirsch

A Winter’s Promise by Christelle Dabos and translated by Hildegarde Serle (This is the first YA book from publisher Europe Editions in translation).

(Don’t) Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start The Conversation About Mental Health edited by Kelly Jensen (my own book!).

The Kiss Collector by Wendy Higgins

The Disasters by M.K. England

Pride by Ibi Zoboi

All The Crooked Saints by Maggie Stiefvater (Out in paperback!)

You Owe Me A Murder by Eileen Cook

Bloodleaf by Crystal Smith

Tales From The Inner City by Shaun Tan

Fake Blood by Whitney Gardner (technically a middle grade graphic novel, but Garnder’s a YA author and I think this one skirts that line)

The Art of Losing by Lizzy Mason

Period Power: A Manifesto for the Menstrual Movement by Nadya Okamoto

Blended by Sharon Draper

Only Love Can Break Your Heart by Katherine Webber

Dear Evan Hansen by Val Emmich

Beneath The Citadel by Destiny Soria

We Say #NeverAgain by Parkland Student Journalists

The Deepest Roots by Miranda Asebedo

People Kill People by Ellen Hopkins

The Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler by John Hendrix (This is the second YA nonfiction title on Bonhoeffer in recent memory — the first was by Patricia McCormick a few years back.)