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Hey YA Readers!
So much great news hit the YA world in the last week . . . not to mention so many great new YA books dropped. October is starting out great in YA!
YA Book News
- Scott Westerfeld’s Uglies series will be adapted for Netflix.
- Four Scholastic YA and Middle Grade books are being adapted into animated horror series. I love this so much, and the three books I’ve read of the four will make SUCH great viewing.
- Nicola Yoon and David Yoon are creating their own imprint dedicated to rom-coms by and about people of color. Sweet!
- I hadn’t realized that American Road Trip by Patrick Flores Scott was made into a comic (that you can read for free!).
- But a drop in the bucket, but it’s good to see pointing out how white British YA is has meant more effort to ensure authors of color are publishing, too.
New YA Books This Week
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Apple: Skin to the Core by Eric Gansworth (nonfiction)
Blazewrath Games by Amparo Ortiz
Broken Wish by Julie C. Dao (series)
The Code for Love and Heartbreak by Jillian Cantor
A Cuban Girl’s Guide to Tea and Tomorrow by Laura Taylor Namey
Deepfake by Sarah Darer Littman
Eventide by Sarah Goodman
Five Total Strangers by Natalie D. Richards (paperback)
Girl on the Run by Abigail Johnson (paperback)
Hush by Dylan Farrow
I Hope You’re Listening by Tom Ryan
I Know You Remember by Jennifer Donaldson (paperback)
Into The Real by Z Brewer
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Kingdom of Sea and Stone by Mara Rutherford (series)
One Way or Another by Kara McDowell
Paris Syndrome by Lisa Walker (paperback)
The Racers: How an Outcast Driver, An American Heiress, and a Legendary Car Challenged Hitler’s Best by Neal Bascomb (nonfiction)
Resurrection Girls by Ava Morgyn (paperback)
The Shadow Mission by Shamim Sarif (series)
Something Happened to Ali Greenleaf by Hayley Krischer
Spell Starter by Elsie Chapman (series)
Strongman by Kenneth C. Davis (nonfiction)
This Week at Book Riot
Over on Book Riot this week…
- A giant roundup of upcoming Fall YA books for your TBR.
- Want a smaller list? You’ll like this look at must-read October YA releases.
- YA books for queer anxious teens.
- Some of the best friendships in YA fantasy.
- On growing up a Puerto Rican YA reader.
- Last but not least: take this fun quiz to discover which YA friendship is most like your own.
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Thanks for hanging out, and we’ll see you next week!
— Kelly Jensen, @heykellyjensen on Instagram and editor of Body Talk, (Don’t) Call Me Crazy, and Here We Are.