Hey YA Readers! Let’s catch up on the latest happs in the world of YA.
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Robyn Schneider, author of The Beginning of Everything, delivers a sharply funny, romantic girl-meets-boy novel with a twist: boy-also-meets-girl’s-ghost-brother. Perfect for fans of Nicola Yoon.
Rose believes in ghosts. She should, since she has one for a best friend: Logan – her brother who is forever stuck at fifteen. But when Rose’s old friend Jamie moves back, things get complicated.
Jamie’s charming, confident, and a reminder of the life she’s been missing out on since her brother’s death. Rose finds herself drawn to Jamie, but how can she choose between the boy who makes her feel alive and the brother she isn’t ready to lose?
Settle in and catch up on the recent news from the world of YA. Like usual, this one is heavy on adaptation news (which is never a bad thing!):
- We have our Daniel in the adaptation of Nicola Yoon’s The Sun Is Also a Star.
- There’s a trailer for the adaptation of Lois Duncan’s Down a Dark Hall.
- The winners of this year’s Boston Globe-Horn Book awards are in. Yay for Isabel Quintero and Elizabeth Acevedo on the YA side for nonficiton and fiction.
- If you haven’t read Rebecca Podos’s Like Water, maybe you will now that it’s won a Lambda Literary Award.
- Check out the amazing new cover for the 20th (!!!) anniversary edition of Laurie Halse Anderson’s Speak.
- Clear your calendar on October 19: you’ll be going to the theater to see the adaptation of The Hate U Give.
- Here are excerpts from the YA Star Wars novels penned by Daniel José Older and Rae Carson.
- Whether or not you were at Book Expo America recently, you will want to know what the big editor buzz titles were — here are all five, along with what inspired those books.
- Why aren’t there more breakout YA science fiction books? Author Fonda Lee makes the case for more and why the time is now.
- A super popular Wattpad YA story is hitting Hulu.
- Freeform has canceled Shadowhunters.
- The Hate U Give won this year’s Audio award in the young adult category.
- Add a bunch of new queer YA to your to-read stack.
- In “it’s been optioned now” news: The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue.
- Don’t revoke my YA cred here because I’m going to highlight a middle grade book….but it’s a forthcoming middle grade book by YA superstar Julie Murphy!
- Dig this deleted scene from Love, Simon, which involves a gay bar.
- A wonderful interview with Jason Reynolds about how he used his own adolescent experiences and feelings to fuel his award-winning books.
- The Indigenous Voices Awards — given in Canada — named their YA winner this year. Another book for your TBR.
- Here are some of the first images from the adaptation of The Mortal Engines, directed by Peter Jackson. Oh, and if you’d like, here’s the trailer, too.
- There’s a new Rainbow Rowell book coming in 2020.
Cheap Reads
Grab some great ebooks without spending a ton of dough.
Jennifer Brown’s powerhouse debut novel Hate List is $2. It’s unfortunate this book is still timely and relevant, but if you haven’t read it, here you go.
Pick up Andrew McCarthy’s (yes, that one!) YA novel Just Fly Away for $1.20.
Two great LGBTQ+ reads to scoop up on the cheap: David Levithan and Nina LaCour’s You Know Me Well and Julie Andrew Peters’s Keeping You a Secret. They’re $3 and $2 respectively.
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Thanks for hanging out, and we’ll see you back here in one week!