Your YA Book News and New Books This Week: March 18, 2021

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Hey YA Readers!

Let’s catch up on YA book news and this week’s new YA book releases. As a head’s up: I had a weird technical glitch this weekend and lost a ton of my bookmarks, so news is a little lighter than usual since I can’t remember or find everything I saved. Just means more time for the books themselves, right?

YA Book News

Here are this year’s Lambda award finalists and there are so many great YA picks throughout!
Speaking of finalists, here are this year’s Barnes & Noble Children’s and YA Book Award picks.
Your YA science fiction and fantasy menu for March is packed with tasty options.
Some news about Netflix’s First Kill, based off the short story by VE Schwab in the Vampires Never Get Old anthology.
I for one cannot wait for Concrete Cowboy to hit Netflix next month. I loved G. Neri’s graphic novel and am excited to see Idris Elba take on the project.
It’s fascinating when a yet-to-be-released YA novel’s buzz begins with adaptation news. Here’s some news about the forthcoming book Mice.