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Hey YA friends,
I’m sending lots of love to everyone who struggling to process the news and who’s hurting right now. Take care of yourself, no matter what that looks like for you.
It’s a lighter week for new YA releases, but there’s some good news and lots of great paperbacks hitting shelves this week. Let’s dive in.
News
YA Author Jason Reynolds will be the inaugural honorary chair of Banned Books Week. In the past, LGBTQ+ books have been the most banned books in any given year, but 2020 data from the ALA shows that books about anti-racism are being challenged at an alarming rate.
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Becky Albertalli’s The Upside of Unrequited has been acquired for film adaptation!
Speaking of adaptations, Stacey Lee’s The Downstairs Girl is also in development as a TV series! And it hit the New York Times bestseller list!
Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman broke records by having her poem “The Hill We Climb” debut at #1 on bestseller lists!
This month is the ten year anniversary of the release of Huntress by Malinda Lo, one of my favorite fantasies! The book has been reissued with an updated cover!
Not YA exactly, but definitely YA adjacent: A movie adaptation of Grady Hendrix’s My Best Friend’s Exorcist is currently in production! It stars two teenage girls, and will probably appeal to YA readers who like horror, although it’s not for the faint of heart!
New Books
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The Great Godden by Meg Rosoff
Ikigai for Teens: Finding Your Reason for Being by Héctor Garía and Francesc Miralles
The Mary Shelley Club by Goldy Moldavsky
Notes from a Young Black Chef: The Young Reader’s Edition by Kwame Onwuachi
The Prison Healer by Lynette Noni
The Republic of Birds by Jessica Miller
The Serpent’s Curse by Lisa Maxwell
The Sky Above Us by Natalie Lund
New in Paperback
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A Dream So Dark by L.L. McKinney
The Empire of Dreams by Rae Carson
It Sounded Better in My Head by Nina Kenwood
Now Entering Addamsville by Francesca Zappia
This Is My Brain in Love by I.W. Gregorio
Turtle Under Ice by Juleah del Rosario
We Are the Wildcats by Siobhan Vivian
On Book Riot
More YA novels in verse to read and love.
Prepare to salivate after these amazing YA books about food!
Celebrate Poetry Month with these poems by YA authors.
Hannah and I talk about YA recommendations for the 2021 Read Harder Challenge.
Have a good rest of your week! I’ll be back on Saturday with some great book deals!
Tirzah
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