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Hey YA Fans!
Once you’ve come off your high from PS: I Still Love You on Netflix or whatever great book you’re into right now, catch up with the latest in YA news and new book releases.
In the YA deals newsletter on Saturday, I made a typo in an author’s name. I called CB Lee the author of The Epic Crush of Genie Lo. She’s not. She’s the author of Not Your Sidekick. FC Yee is the author of the Genie Lo series. The first is on sale, while the second one isn’t, but why not pick both up?
Now, onto the news!
YA Book News
- All of the Star Wars novels coming in 2020 so far, including the new YA novels.
- I’ve not heard of the YA book You’re Bacon Me Crazy, which is weird since I love puns like that that I’d REMEMBER that one. But that aside, it’ll be adapted for Hallmark.
- Will you buy a $38 edition of the first Harry Potter book? What if it’s really fancy?
- Melissa de la Cruz’s 29 Dates adaptation has a director attached.
- The Chaos Walking adaptation has a new release date.
- Jenny Han on her writing process.
- What do you think of the new covers for Sarah J Maas’s A Court of Thorns and Roses series? They look way more adult and fantasy angled to me.
- Have you read The Marrow Thieves? I need to, especially seeing how bananas-well it’s sold.
- Funny girls are taking center stage in books for young readers this year. There’s more here about middle grade, but worth the time to read since I’ve seen it in YA, too.
- The trailer for the adaptation of All The Bright Places has landed. It hits Netflix later this month.
- Dylan Farrow’s debut novel is a YA dark fantasy and you can sneak a peek here.
- I am obsessed with so many of these Fall YA book covers.
This Week’s Book Releases
A * means I’ve read and recommend it!
*500 Words or Less by Julia del Rosario (paperback)
Cloak of Night by Evelyn Skye (series)
The Girl King by Mimi Yu (paperback, series)
Hearts of Flame by Nicki Pau Preto (series)
Honor Lost by Ann Aguirre and Rachel Caine (series)
If Only You Knew by Prerna Pickett
Ink In The Blood by Kim Smejkal (series)
The Last Confession of Autumn Casterly by Meredith Tate
The New David Espinoza by Fred Aceves
Night Spinner by Addie Thorley
No True Believers by Rabiah York Lumbard
*The Rise and Fall of Charles Lindbergh by Candace Fleming — I highlighted this one on the latest episode of All The Books.
This Train Is Being Held by Ismée Williams
*Turtle Under Ice by Juleah del Rosario — I highlighted this one on the latest episode of All The Books.
*Watch Us Rise by Renée Watson and Ellen Hagan
The Wicked King by Holly Black (paperback, series)
YA Talk On Book Riot This Week
- 27 great YA book quotes about friendship.
- 2020 queer YA audiobooks for your to-read/to-listen list.
- Great #OwnVoices books about immigration.
- Did you see the awesome cover for this forthcoming anthology of YA short stories about rural teens?
- On rereading Persepolis in today’s world.
- Necessary reads for February in YA.
- Where are the Asian Americans in historical YA fiction? A conversation with Stacey Lee.
Thanks for hanging out, and we’ll see you again on Monday!
— Kelly Jensen, @heykellyjensen on Instagram and editor of (Don’t) Call Me Crazy and Here We Are.
**Psst — you can now also preorder my upcoming August release, Body Talk: 37 Voices Explore Our Radical Anatomy!