Hey YA Readers!
I just put out the fall decor in my house–blankets on the backs of couches, fall candles in the bathroom, all of the Halloween stuff that hasn’t made its rotation into my regular decoration–and I’m deep in a campus YA book. I love summer, and I will forever defend summer lasting until its natural end in late September, but the leaves here are already changing, so I am also going to enjoy this month of transition. I hope you are able to, too.
Let’s take a look at this week’s paperback releases and YA book news. As you’ll begin to see in the next couple of weeks, it’s transition time in publishing, too. More books and more book news is coming!
Bookish Goods
Custom Bookshelf Sweatshirt from TylerShaeDesign
Do you want to create your own custom book stack sweatshirt? You can! I love the colors of this stack and would think it make a nice stack for your favorite LGBTQ+ YA books. $46 and up.
New Releases
Here are this week’s new releases out in paperback–this is a much slower pub week than usual, and you’ll see that there are not stand alone nor first-in-series by authors of color. As always, you can grab the full list of paperback books out this week over here!
Note that you may need to toggle to the paperback edition from the link.
Indivisible by Daniel Aleman
Mateo and his little sister are American citizens, but their parents are undocumented immigrants from Mexico. They’ve been taught to fear potential deportation, but because Mateo’s parents have been so integrated into America–and they have American-born children–that fear has faded.
But when Mateo comes home from school and discovers his parents are missing, the family’s worst nightmares may have come true. Now Mateo and his little sister have to figure out how survive alone while working to find their parents.
Lakesedge by Lyndall Clipstone
Violeta Graceling — Leta — arrives at Lakesedge estate prepared to find a monster in Rowan, who, rumor has it, drowned his entire family. Leta soon discovers neither Lakesedge nor Rowan are what they’ve been built to be. She begins to fall quickly for Rowan, but soon discovers his allegiance to a sinister death god residing in the lake on the estate. Now Leta is drawn to that death god and must unpack the dark truth of her past, as well as her connection to the death god, in order to save herself and Rowan.
YA Book News
- A Cuban Girl’s Guide to Tea and Tomorrow is being adapted.
- The trailer for the new adaptation of Vampire Academy has dropped.
- The YA book School Spirits–due out next fall–has a cast for its adaptation already.
- Netflix’s The Devil in Ohio releases soon, and not only is it based on a YA book, the story is based on a true experience.
As always, thanks for hanging out. We’ll see you on Saturday with some YA book deals.
Until then, happy reading!
— Kelly Jensen, currently reading Seton Girls by Charlene Thomas