Hey YA Readers!
Aside from being sick (womp womp), I spent my week off work devouring books. I blew through Ain’t Burned All The Bright by Jason Reynolds and Jason Griffin–a total masterpiece of art and poetry. I also plowed through Mayra Cuevas and Marie Marquardt’s Does My Body Offend You? which would be a read for those who enjoyed Watch Us Rise and Moxie, as well as Trigger by N. Griffin, described aptly as Speak meets The Hunger Games meets Educated.
Now that I’m back and have caught up on some of my reading, you better believe I’m itching to pile on more YA books to my TBR.
Let’s take a look at this week’s YA book news and new releases so we can do just that.
YA Book News
- Huge and positive news: the Batchelder Award, given to books for young readers in translation, will require translators to be credited in order to be honored.
- The story behind Sabaa Tahir’s All My Rage.
- Everything you need to know about Heartstopper, the YA comic coming to Netflix soon.
- Laurinda by Alice Pung, published in the US as Lucy and Linh, is getting a TV adaptation. No word on whether US audiences will have access or if it will be limited to Australia.
- An interesting piece about the YA author who let TikTok choose her debut book cover. The amount of money spent on the cover reveal is something I cannot comprehend.
New YA Books This Week
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
Belle Morte by Bella Higgin (series)
Dreams Bigger Than Heartbreak by Charlie Jane Anders (series)
Omens Bite by P. C. Cast and Kristin Cast (series)
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Sense and Second Degree Murder by Tirzah Price (series)
All The Best Liars by Amelia Kahaney
Alone Out Here by Riley Redgate
Does My Body Offend You? by Mayra Cuevas and Marie Marquardt
Gold Mountain by Betty G. Yee
Heartbreak Symphony by Laekan Zea Kemp
High Spirits by Camille Gomera-Tavarez
Hotel Magnifique by Emily J. Taylor
Love From Scratch by Kaitlyn Hill
Nothing Burns as Bright As You by Ashley Woodfolk
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Scout’s Honor by Lily Anderson
She Gets The Girl by Rachael Lippincott and Alyson Derrick
The Color of the Sky Is the Shape of a Heart by Chesil, translated by Takami Nieda
The Queen Is Dead by Abigail Owen (series)
The Silent Unseen by Amanda McCrina
The Woman Who Split The Atom by Marissa Moss (nonfiction)
This Rebel Heart by Katherine Locke
Very Bad People by Kit Frick
You Are More Than Magic by Minda Harts (nonfiction)
Paperback
Perfect Score by A. M. Ellis (series)
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Counting Down With You by Tashie Bhuiyan
Dancing At The Pity Party by Tyler Feder
House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland
How To Be a Difficult Bitch by Halley Bondy, Mary C. Fernandez, and Sharon Lynn Pruitt-Young
Instructions for Dancing by Nicola Yoon
K-Pop Revolution by Stephan Lee
Kisses and Croissants by Anne-Sophie Jouhanneau
The Black Kids by Christina Hammonds Reed
The Matchbreaker Summer by Annie Rains
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YA Book Talk at Book Riot
- The best YA books with a second-chance romance.
- YA comics hitting shelves this spring.
- Excellent paranormal comics for teens.
- Books like We Were Liars for fans of twisty thrillers.
- Adult memoirs for teen readers.
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Do you like to track your reading? If you haven’t tried a reading tracker bookmark, I pulled together a bunch of cool ones that might interest you. The above is $3, available here.
Thanks for hanging out, and we’ll see you on Saturday for some sweet YA book deals.
Until then, happy reading!
— Kelly Jensen, @heykellyjensen on Instagram.