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Hey YA Readers!
Let’s catch up on the latest in YA book news and check out the range of amazing YA books that hit shelves this week.
YA Book News
We’re light on news this week, but that just means more time to read new books.
- Here’s the cover for the sequel to Benjamin Alire Sáenz’s Aristotle and Dante.
- The short list for the UK’s YA Book Prize have been announced.
- I had a piece over on School Library Journal of interest to those who work with tweens especially: here’s how tweens are getting involved in digital activism (including a book list, of course!).
New YA Books
The Alcazar by Amy Ewing (paperback, series)
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American Betiya by Anuradha D. Rajurkar
Beast: A Tale of Love and Revenge by Lisa Jensen
Better Than The Best Plan by Lauren Morrill (paperback)
Blue Window by Adina Rishe Gewirtz
Can’t Take That Away by Steven Salvatore
City of Spells by Alexandra Christo (series)
The Devil’s Thief by Lisa Maxwell (paperback, series)
Fragile Remedy by Maria Ingrande Mora
The Immortal Boy by Francisco Montaña Ibáñez, translated by David Bowles
Into The Crooked Place by Alexandra Christo (paperback)
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It’s Kind of a Cheesy Love Story by Lauren Morrill
This Light Between Us by Andrew Fukuda (paperback)
Noelle: The Mean Girl by Ashley Woodfolk (paperback, series)
Only Mostly Devastated by Sophie Gonzales (paperback)
Perfect on Paper by Sophie Gonzales
A Phoenix First Must Burn edited by Patrice Caldwell (paperback)
Sing Me Forgotten by Jessica S. Olson
The Small Crimes of Tiffany Templeton by Richard Fifield (paperback)
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Sweet and Bitter Magic by Adrienne Tooley
Tell Me My Name by Amy Reed
Things That Grow by Meredith Goldstein
When We Were Infinite by Kelly Loy Gilbert
When You Were Everything by Ashley Woodfolk (paperback)
YA Book Talk on Book Riot
- Great 2021 YA books featuring teen writers.
- Witchy books like WandaVision, including a number of YA reads.
- 10 YA books for your March TBR.
Yay books!
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.
Big thanks to Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu, with Fierce Reads, for making this newsletter possible! (Have you watched the adaptation yet?)
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