Hey, YA Readers!
It feels like April is flying by. I blinked and somehow, it’s now more than half-way through the month. Wild!
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Let’s get down to business and talk all things new YA paperback releases and YA book news for the week.
Bookish Goods
Red and White Magnetic Mushroom Bookmark by EarthCuriousArtCo
There are so many fun magnetic bookmarks in this shop that choosing one to highlight was hard (and don’t get me started on the dinosaur bookmark that isn’t magnetic—you might end up seeing that in a future newsletter). Anyway, I really want this mushroom bookmark. It’s so cute, and you can choose a holographic version if you want sparkles, too! $4.
New Releases
All of your new spring YA paperback releases are in one place over here. Below, find two exciting titles that hit shelves this week. As always, you might need to toggle your view to see the paperback edition.
This Night Is Ours by Ronni Davis
If you like stories set in the summer between high school and college and the types of stories set over one epic night, look no further.
Brandy’s been accepted into the best nursing school in the country. She should be excited, but she’s not. It’s her mom’s dream, not her dream, as Brandy wants to be an artist.
She’s a little (lot) envious of Ben Nolan, one of her classmates, who will be pursuing his dream of acting. So when Ben attaches himself to Brandy at the town’s summer carnival, she could not be more annoyed.
But her feelings about everything—her future, nursing school, Ben—will be tested over the course of the evening.
You Don’t Have A Shot by Racquel Marie
Vale’s life is soccer. She loves the game, but it’s more than just a game. She’s good, her future depends on the game, and she’s got expectations to exceed from her father. But then Vale incites a fight with long-time rival Leticia Ortiz, and everything becomes chaotic.
Vale decides she’ll find solace over the summer by working at her old youth soccer camp. It sounds like the right chance to reignite a love for the game and get back to the heart of what it means to be an athlete.
But then she discovers that she’ll be co-captaining the youth team this summer with none other than Leticia. Will fists fly? Or will it be sparks?
This is an exciting and engaging sports enemies-to-lovers queer romance.
For a more comprehensive list of new releases, check out our New Books newsletter.
YA Book News
Before I dive in, let me begin by complaining. Google has changed its search settings, making finding YA news now absolutely impossible–did you know if you refine searches by category now, like “news,” you’ll be told by Google that you’ll get non-news content in that search result? The whole reason you refine is so you don’t get that.
Anyway, apologies because I no longer can search as seamlessly as before. That means the YA news will be a little shorter or odder than usual as I try to relearn how to search the internet for these stories. Google is no longer the place, apparently.
- Marisha Pessl has her first new YA novel in several years publishing this fall.
- The musical based on The Outsiders is getting good reviews. It’s currently at the Jacobs Theater in New York City.
- All of the YA science fiction and fantasy novels hitting shelves this month.
Thanks for hanging out, and we’ll see you on Saturday for your YA book deals.
Until then, happy reading!
–Kelly Jensen, currently listening to Toxic: Women, Fame, and the Tabloid 2000s by Sarah Ditum