Happy Monday, YA Readers!
Let’s take this week’s newsletter as an opportunity to explore what we’ve been talking about YA over on Book Riot’s website over the last month or so. There’s something for every one here, so enjoy!
- A look at fiction and nonfiction YA highlighting girls involved in the Labor Movement.
- The young adult books that one reader wish she could have had as a young adult. Are there any titles you feel similarly about? (Yes, you can totally hit ‘reply’ to this email and answer that — perhaps they’ll be rounded up in a later newsletter!).
- One reader on unabiding love for Garth Nix’s Sabriel series.
- Seven YA books set across the 7 continents with rad female lead characters. Yes, even Antarctica.
- 40 paperback YA titles hitting shelves this spring. Bulk up that TBR with more portable and affordable reads.
- Nostalgia time! YA books from back in the day featuring heroines who kick some literal butt.
- YA girls, fiction and real, who love and excel at STEM (that’s Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math for the non-acronym savvy!).
- A look at 100 (plus a couple more) YA books that are excellent reads for feminists and young feminists-in-training.
- While you’re waiting for Whitney Gardner’s You’re Welcome, Universe to hit shelves (though I know I’ve seen it in some places already!), some excellent YA books about art, life, and love.
- 15 YA books that are great fits for Black Sabbath’s hits. We Book Riot hard, y’all.
- YA books that explore money, class, and power (seriously, though, these books are not only outstanding but tackle some big stuff I haven’t seen much before!).
- Which of these YA novels about nerds are worth your bucks and which are worth a checkout at the library? The verdicts are in.
- Excellent YA LGBTQ #OwnVoices science fiction and fantasy reads. Wheee!!!
That’s a wrap this week! I’ll be handing over control of the YA Newsletter next week to middle grade queen Karina Glaser, as I’ll be traveling. I’m eager to see what she talks about and hope you are, too!
Until later, keep fighting the good fight and reading great YA books.
-Kelly Jensen