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Hey YA Fans!
Welcome to another week of slower-than-usual YA book news. The positive side? Lots of YA book releases this week to get excited about.
I hope you’re hanging in there however you can. You’ve read a billion emails saying the same thing, and I hope you take it to heart. Stay well, stay safe, and remember you don’t owe anything to anyone right now.
YA Book News
- Jason Reynolds, in his role as National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, has a new and awesome initiative coming.
- Kiera Cass’s bestselling The Selection series is headed to Netflix.
- Check out the Hugo finalists in YA.
- The Star Wars universe continues to expand, which means YA readers who love this world are in for a treat.
- And speaking of franchises, Claudia Gray is working with DC on a new comics series.
- New Canadian YA (and middle grade!) books hitting shelves this spring.
- Need some teen movies and shows in your queue? Here are 27 great ones.
- This is a little insider baseball, but there’ll be a new YA imprint coming soon that’s a collaboration between Candlewick and MIT Press. I’m game for more YA nonfiction!
YA New Books
A * beside a title means I’ve read it and highly recommend it!
*Dancing at the Pity Party by Tyler Feder (an outstanding graphic memoir about grief)
*Don’t Date Rosa Santos by Nina Moreno (paperback)
Earth To Charlie by Justin Olson (paperback)
Elysium Girls by Kate Pentecost
A Girl In Three Parts by Suzanne Daniel
Girls Save The World In This One by Ash Parsons
In Good Hands by Stephanie MacKendrick
The Lightness of Hands by Jeff Garvin
Love and Other Carnivorous Plants by Florence Gonsalves (paperback)
Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko
Redemption Prep by Samuel Miller
The Sword and The Dagger by Robert Cochran (paperback)
This Is My Brain On Love by IW Gregorio
Witchlight by Jessi Zabarsky
YA on Book Riot This Week
Catch up with the latest YA talk on Book Riot!
- Great portal fantasies for YA readers
- 20 social justice books for teens
- Great YA books about cousins
Thanks for hanging out, y’all, and we’ll see you again on Saturday with a boatload of amazing YA ebook deals.
— Kelly Jensen, @heykellyjensen on Instagram and editor of Body Talk, (Don’t) Call Me Crazy, and Here We Are.