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Hey YA Readers!
We’re rounding out the second month of 2021 already, if you can believe it. The YA world has some great news and, of course, some great books for your shelves this week.
YA Book News
- The Horror Writers Association has named their Stoker Award shortlists. Check out the great scary YA included.
- Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret might be more middle grade than YA, but it’s worth sharing the latest casting news for the Judy Blume adaptation.
- Such a great look at YA’s talent in this roundup of 50 Black YA authors.
- Remember a couple of weeks ago the newsletter highlighting YA authors who are publishing their first romance books? Elle Cosimano has a look at YA writers who are publishing their first crime/thriller reads.
- We Hunt The Flame has been optioned for TV adaptation.
- Rick Riordan’s imprint, which has been a smashing success in middle grade, is now going to offer YA, and the first author on board is Daniel José OIder!
- Your big, huge preview of Fall 2021 children’s and teen releases. This list is not comprehensive, but gives instead a look at some of the books that you’ll be hearing a lot more about soon.
New YA Books This Week
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Bent Heavens by Daniel Kraus (paperback)
Bone Crier’s Moon by Kathryn Purdie (paperback, series)
A Dark and Hollow Star by Ashley Shuttleworth
The Desolation of Devil’s Acre by Ransom Riggs (series)
Destination Anywhere by Sara Barnard
Dragonfly Girl by Marti Leimbach
Girls With Razor Hearts by Suzanne Young (series, paperback)
How To Change Everything by Naomi Klein and Rebecca Stefoff (nonfiction)
The How and The Why by Cynthia Hand (paperback)
The Initial Insult by Mindy McGinnis
Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens by Tanya Boteju (paperback)
Like Home by Louisa Onome
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Mazie by Melanie Crowder — if you like historical fiction, this is an utter GEM.
The Missing Passenger by Jack Heath
Prepped by Bethany Mangle
Rebelwing by Andrea Tang (paperback)
The Shadow War by Lindsay Smith
Some Other Now by Sarah Everett
The Things She’s Seen by Ambelin Kwaymullina and Ezekiel Kwaymullina (paperback)
The Truth App by Jack Heath (paperback)
The Valley and The Flood by Rebecca Mahoney
YA Talk at Book Riot
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- YA books featuring 19-year-old main characters.
- How To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before books helped comfort me when I most needed it.
- 20 of your favorite YA fairy tales.
- What to read if you love Kiera Cass’s The Selection series.
- Audiobook SYNC is back in 2021, and here are the free audiobooks you can score all summer long.
- Hard-hitting recent YA thrillers for your TBR.
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Thanks for hanging out, and we’ll see you again on Monday!
— Kelly Jensen, @heykellyjensen on Instagram and editor of Body Talk, (Don’t) Call Me Crazy, and Here We Are.
Thanks again to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Some Other Now for making today’s newsletter possible!
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