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Hey YA Readers!
I hope your February is treating you well and even if it’s not, you’re able to find some time with a good book and a comforting beverage of choice. Let’s take a look at this week’s YA news and new books.
YA Book News
- If you don’t know about SYNC, you should. This annual program offers two audiobooks for free throughout the spring and summer. It’s aimed at teens but if you like books for teens, YA or adult, you’ll want to take advantage of this roster of awesome titles.
- Tiffany D. Jackson’s White Smoke is being adapted.
- Check out the forthcoming sequel to The Nightmare Before Christmas that’ll be published as a YA novel: Pumpkin Queen.
- The In Between is available on Paramount+. It’s a supernatural romance adapted from a YA novel by Marc Klein.
- You can watch the third and final season of Love, Victor in mid-June.
- Over on School Library Journal, I wrote about the ways teens are using BookTok to discover their new favorite reads (and how librarians and educators can tap into that, too).
Make sure to get your own Read Harder Book Journal from Book Riot to track your reading for the year!
This Week’s YA Releases
Please note that with supply chain issues, paper supply challenges, and the pandemic more broadly, publication dates are changing at a pace I can’t keep up with. Some release dates may be pushed back. If a book catches your attention, the smartest thing to do right now is to preorder it or request it from your library. It’ll be a fun surprise when it arrives.
Hardcover
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All The Right Reasons by Bethany Mangle
Bitter by Akwaeke Emezi
Bright Ruined Things by Samantha Cohoe
Cramm This Book by Olivia Seltzer (nonfiction)
Howl by Shaun David Hutchinson
Ironhead, or Once a Young Lady by Jean-Claude van Rijckeghem and translated by Kristen Gehrman
Reclaim the Stars edited by Zoraida Córdova
Rima’s Rebellion by Margarita Engle
The Chandler Legacies by Abdi Nazemian
Paperback
Girls with Rebel Souls by Suzanne Young (series)
The Bright and the Pale by Jessica Rubinkowski (series)
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A Complicated Love Story Set in Space by Shaun David Hutchinson
Bruised by Tanya Boteju
Game Changer by Neal Shusterman
Prepped by Bethany Mangle
The Wide Starlight by Nicole Lesperance
Don’t forget you can get three free audiobooks at Audiobooks.com with a free trial!
YA at Book Riot
- Queer post-apocalyptic YA books for your TBR
- How to start a teen book club
- A look at how one reader fell in love with YA fantasy
- This year’s slate of Summer Scares horror picks are here and the YA selection is awesome (I’m part of this project and love these books)
- We Need Diverse Books has made grants available to teachers for sharing diverse stories
- Last week’s roundup of book censorship news and a look at the difference between a book ban and a curriculum update
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Thanks for hanging out, and we’ll see you again with your book deals on Saturday.
Happy reading!
— Kelly Jensen, @heykellyjensen on Instagram.