YA Book News and New YA Books: October 29, 2020

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Hey YA Fans!

I hope you’re able to be reading something excellent right now. I’ll admit, my reading has been slow all year long, and that’s especially been the case the last few weeks.

Let’s take a look at the latest in YA book news and new YA books for this week. Note that it’s a little quieter than normal on both fronts.

YA Book News

This is going to be neat to see: Victoria Aveyard and Soman Chainani are combining their two YA book series into a graphic novel.
I don’t know if the Summer of ’85 film is only in the UK or there’s access to it elsewhere, but because it’s based on a very early gay YA novel, I wanted to include a link to a review of it for those who want to seek it out.
Quibi apparently had the rights to Alex Morel’s Survive, a YA novel about plane crash survivors. It’s unclear what’ll happen to the adaptation now. (Nice use of “up in the air” there, Kirkus).
The adaptation of Children of Blood and Bone is going to Lucasfilm, which is the first non-franchise film for the company.
Some additional adaptation news for VE Schwab: her short story from the anthology Vampires Never Get Old is getting a series treatment.
Jennifer Donnelly’s Poisoned was optioned for potential adaptation.