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Hey YA Readers!
I hope you’re staying healthy and well. If you’re in the northern hemisphere, I hope you’re staying cool and if you’re in the southern hemisphere, keep warm.
Let’s take a peek at this week’s new YA books, YA book news, and more.
YA Book News
- I LOVE this peek behind the curtain of a freelance book cover designer. Her YA work is so dang good!
- Here’s how The Baby-Sitters Club members would decorate their studio apartments as adults. May not be NEWS, per se, but in today’s world, we can use the joy.
- The trailer for season two of His Dark Materials dropped.
- Loved Cursed? You’ll want to dive into some more adaptations of legends and myths (lots of YA here!).
- Even more RL Stine books are getting adapted.
- Have you read or know readers who are passionate about The Kissing Booth on Netflix, based on a YA novel? Here’s why the series may be so popular.
- Jason Reynolds is writing an adult novel.
- Amazon is adapting the comic Paper Girls, which is going to be great! Scratch that Stranger Things itch, but with a team of paper-delivery girls discovering weird things in their community.
- Already looking ahead to 2021? Here’s a preview of some of spring’s biggest children’s and YA book releases.
New YA Books This Week
I’ve noted with a * the books I’ve read and recommend highly!
29 Dates by Melissa de la Cruz (paperback)
The Beast Player by Nahoko Uehashi, translated by Cathy Hirano (paperback, series)
The Beast Warrior by Nahoko Uehashi, translated by Cathy Hirano (series)
The Best Lies by Sarah Lyu (paperback)
*The Boy and Girl Who Broke The World by Amy Reed (paperback)
The Faithless Hawk by Margaret Owen (series)
The Friend Scheme by Cale Dietrich
The Girl In The White Van by April Henry
I Kissed Alice by Anna Birch
King of Fools by Amanda Foody (paperback, series)
*The Mall by Megan McCafferty
The Stepping Off Place by Cameron Kelly Rosenblum
*This Is My America by Kim Johnson
Today, Tonight, Tomorrow by Rachel Lynn Solomon
A Wicked Magic by Sasha Laurens
The Year They Fell by David Kreizman
YA Book Talk on Book Riot
We really leaned into nostalgia on site over the last week!
- Some of the most popular book series from the 80s and 90s.
- Scary books that doomed millennials as kids.
- Pick your favorite member of The Baby-Sitters Club and get a book recommendation.
- YA historical novels set in New Orleans.
- Excellent Jewish YA (and children’s!) books.
- A peek at the bestselling book series for young readers since 2010.
Speaking of nostalgia, I don’t know who needs to know this, but you can get a Stoneybrook Middle School t-shirt in a billion different colors and styles. I might be buying this one. Price ranges, but this particular dolman style is $24.
Thanks for hanging out, and we’ll see you again on Monday!
— Kelly Jensen, @heykellyjensen on Instagram and editor of Body Talk, (Don’t) Call Me Crazy, and Here We Are.
(Psst: if you preorder my book Body Talk, out August 18, you can snag some sweet thank yous)