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Hello YA Fans!
Now that awards season is upon us and we’ve shaken off the first couple of weeks of a new year and starting to find something resembling a routine (whatever that means these days), there’s more YA news to share. This is going to be a heckuva year in young adult.
YA Book News
- Here are this year’s slate of Youth Media Award winners. These prestigious awards across a range of categories are given by librarians. Dig in!
- Looking for good mysteries? The short lists for this year’s Edgar Awards are out and the YA category is solid.
- Mayim Bialik is working with DC comics to develop a new series of nonfiction books for teen readers (side note: I love that the intro says folks know Bialik from The Big Bang Theory . . . I feel old that my first connection is Blossom).
- This year’s best international books for youth list is out. Dive into these excellent reads published outside the US (I know many of the YA books have made it to US publishers, too).
- The graphic novel Heartstopper will see a Netflix adaptation.
- Last but not least: adaptation news for The Walled City by Ryan Graudin. This was such a compelling read.
New YA Books
All The Stars and Teeth by Adalyn Grace (paperback, series)
Be Not Far From Me by Mindy McGinnis (paperback)
City of Villains by Estelle Laure (series)
Don’t Tell a Soul by Kirsten Miller
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The Girls I’ve Been by Tess Sharpe — this book is an outstanding mystery/thriller.
A Heart So Fierce and Broken by Brigid Kemmerer (paperback, series)
The Impossible Climb by Mark Synnott and Hampton Synnott (nonfiction)
Seven Deadly Shadows by Courtney Alameda and Valynne E. Maetani (paperback)
Shadow City by Francesca Flores (series)
Time Travel for Love and Profit by Sarah Lariviere
Twisted Fates by Danielle Rollins (series, paperback)
Unchosen by Katharyn Blair
A Vow So Bold and Deadly by Brigid Kemmerer (series)
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What I Carry by Jennifer Longo (paperback)
White Rose by Kip Wilson (paperback)
The Wild by Owen Laukkanen
Wings of Ebony by J. Elle
Written in Starlight by Isabel Ibañez (series)
YA at Book Riot
- Get to know Amanda Gorman, this year’s Inaugural youth poet who has a handful of rad books hitting shelves soon.
- A deep dive into the Twilight soundtrack. Nostalgia time!
- YA nonfiction hitting shelves this year you’ll want to TBR.
- The art of creating diverse classroom libraries, with the help of a handful of recent YA releases.
- Check out these YA books getting rereleased in 2021 (and there are even more than this, too — may be a newsletter-worth topic in the future).
Thanks for hanging out, pals, 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.