Hey YA Readers: Time for a news catch-up!
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The newsletter title is, indeed, a little snarky. But perhaps we can all agree that YA talk and YA news should come from those who actually love and respect the category, right?
That said, let’s take a peek at the wealth of YA news that’s hit the internet in the last few weeks. There’s some big, exciting stuff!
- Angie Thomas’s On The Come Up is getting the adaptation treatment. This is awesome because the book is awesome.
- Here are the winners and honorees for this year’s youth media awards for young adult literature, as awarded by librarians.
- So many great queer YA books to have on your TBR this year.
- Here’s the first look at the adaptation of Nicole Yoon’s The Sun Is Also A Star.Â
- We’re getting a Princess Diaries 3.
- A refreshing trend, wherein we see so many awesome fat girls on YA book covers this year.
- There’s a new installment of Foreshadow out! Dig into three great short YA stories.
- Jay Kristoff has a new series coming. It’s for adults, but with YA appeal. And it’s about vampires. I told you vampires were back.
- Surely, you’ve seen some really terrible hot takes on the Blood Heir book and it being pulled by the author. Here’s a not-hot take and instead, the real story.
- Did you see Out of Print/The Book Riot Store now has Leigh Bardugo’s Six of Crows shirts and totes? Scroll down the main page and you’ll see ’em!
- This upcoming YA book looks pretty good.
- Megan Whalen Turner’s The Return of the Thief was pushed back to 2020.
- Amandla Stenberg talks about the real life pain of The Hate U Give.
- New Star Wars YA books!
- Get some Canadian YA books onto your spring TBR.
- The queer webcomic Mooncakes will be hitting shelves in October.
- Christopher Myers — son of Walter Dean Myers — is launching an imprint and the children’s/YA titles on it are impressive.
- Wattpad is getting into publishing. I’m surprised it took this long!
- A YA television adaptation that’s a take on Anna Karenina but with an Asian American lead? Sweet.
- This list of films at Sundance featuring queer stories includes a YA title I didn’t know was being adapted.
- Are you ready for a Tyra Banks theme park? It’s named after her (not completed!) YA trilogy.
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