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Happy Thursday!
Welcome to your weekly roundup of all things YA news, YA new releases, and YA talk. As usual, lighter on news than typical during this time period, but there’s still some stuff worth sharing.
YA News
- Love, Victor, the Hulu spinoff of Love, Simon, dropped its first trailer.
- Speaking of Simon, surprise! There’s a forthcoming novella set in the same world.
- YA author Patrick Ness is writing the script for the forthcoming Lord of the Flies adaptation.
- Marissa Meyer’s next book isn’t YA, but I suspect YA readers who love romance are going to love this news.
- Digital author events are not keeping the racists away. A disgusting experience for two YA authors of color.
- A new literary journal for teens and young adults in Ireland.
- The Virgin Suicides might not be YA, but I know it’s a film and book that has huge appeal to YA readers. Here’s a piece on the story’s 20th anniversary.
- No one is surprised that the Hunger Games prequel was already snapped up for adaptation.
New YA Books
This week’s new YA books for your TBR! A * means I’ve read and recommend it.
*All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson (especially great on audio!)
A Breath Too Late by Rocky Callen
Clique Bait by Ann Valett
Dig by AS King (paperback)
Don’t Call The Wolf by Aleksandra Ross
Hard Wired by Len Vlahos
How To Be Luminous by Harriet Reuter Hapgood
Incendiary by Zoraida Cordova (first in a new series)
These Witches Don’t Burn by Isabel Sterling (paperback, first in a series)
The Tiger at Midnight by Swati Teerdhala (paperback, first in a series)
*The Weight of Our Sky by Hanna Alkaf (paperback)
YA Book Talk This Week
- Censorship at an Alaska school district.
- Quiz: Which YA Mythological Tale Should You Read Next?
- Read some Western inspired YA fantasies.
Hope you’re hanging in there, and we’ll see you again on Saturday for some excellent YA ebook deals.
— Kelly Jensen, @heykellyjensen on Instagram and editor of Body Talk, (Don’t) Call Me Crazy, and Here We Are.