Hello again, YA readers!
This week’s edition of “What’s Up in YA?” is sponsored by Be True To Me by Adele Griffin
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Last year, about this time, I asked for you to share your favorite read of the year so far, and I put together a massive list of reader favorites. Let’s do that again this year.
To participate, drop your favorite YA read of 2017 — books published between January 1 and June 30 of this year only — with title and author into this form. Easy peasy! Take the next week to think about it, and look for the big round-up on July 10.
In the meantime, let’s take a look at what’s been talked about in the YA world on Book Riot over the last month:
- 5 YA Romances For When The Real World Is Too Much
- Candles Inspired By YA Heroines
- Don’t Judge Me For Shopping In The Young Adult Section
- 40 YA Paperbacks Hitting Shelves This Summer
- The Days Of The Week According To YA Titles
- How Sarah Dessen’s Novels Have Aged With Me
- Sweet Diverse YA Covers For Books Hitting Shelves Soon
- 7 YA Novels With Superpowered Heroines
- Comics-To-Movies-To-YA-Books: Why We Need Them
- A Reading List From Cindy Pon’s WANT
- Readers Fabulously Recreate WHEN DIMPLE MET RISHI Cover
- YA Teens Who Are Obsessed With Real Life Bands And Musicians
- A Long Time Ago, In A YA Novel Far, Far Away (on learning to stop judging an entire category of books) (Thanks, Star Wars!)
- Celebrating The Solstice With Sun-Themed YA Reads
- Thirteen Reasons Why Censorship Won’t Help
- And finally, while this piece isn’t about YA lit specifically, it is about teenagers and it’s too good not to include: How Do You Get Teens Interested in Classic Literature? Blind Date With A Book!
Thanks for hanging out again and we’ll see you back here next week with all of the YA news your inbox can handle.
— Kelly Jensen, @veronikellymars
PS: Don’t forget to drop your favorite YA read of 2017 into the form to take part in our reader survey.