This Week’s YA Book News and New YA Books

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Determined to prove his true gender to his traditional Latinx family, Yadriel tries to summon the ghost of his dead cousin to help set it free.
Instead, Yadriel summons Julian Diaz, the school’s resident bad boy. And Julian is not about to go quietly into death. He needs to find out what happened and tie off some loose ends before he leaves. Left with no choice, Yadriel agrees to help Julian. . . but the longer they’re together, the less Yadriel wants to let him leave.
Don’t miss the paranormal debut Entertainment Weekly calls “groundbreaking” and Paste calls “wildly memorable.”

Hey YA Fans!

It’s time for your weekly roundup of YA book news and new book releases.

I hope you’re strapped in, as the next few weeks will be heavy hitters with new releases, as many of the spring books that got shifted are finally hitting shelves.

That just means lots of great new reading, right?

This Week’s YA Book News

Reese Witherspoon launches a YA book club, and her first pick is the outstanding queer rom-com You Should See Me In a Crown by Leah Johnson. (Psst: don’t miss Leah and I talking great back list queer YA titles on an extra credit episode of Hey YA!).
Stephenie Meyer may have two more Twilight books up her sleeve. Given that Midnight Sun sold a million copies in its first week, I’m not surprised.
I’m not so sure this is news, but I dig the new cover and suspect some may want to add it to their shelves: the 10th anniversary edition of Ally Condie’s Matched is pretty!
The Upper World, a YA book that hasn’t even hit shelves yet, has a stellar team attached to the adaptation already.
The trailer for Unpregnant so perfectly captures the tone of the book and I cannot wait to watch this.
One of Us Is Lying has been ordered for a season at Peacock.
Elsie Chapman’s Caster series has been optioned for adaptation.
Over on School Library Journal, I have two pieces: one on how librarians are using TikTok to connect with young patrons and one on recent funny YA books.