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Hey YA Readers!
Let’s get caught up on this week’s YA book news and collection of excellent new book releases. If you’re in the US and experiencing this non-stop winter, may finding a new book to read while you’re bundled up and digging out be a comfort.
YA Book News
- The 2021 Rainbow Booklist is out and it’s amazing. If you love queer YA, this list of the best of the last year will be up your alley.
- The Gilded Ones, which just came out, is on the docket for adaptation by the author.
- In more adaptation news, The Players Table, the adaptation of They Wish They Were Us, has a home at HBO.
- Netflix is adapting the Redwall series in a couple of different ways.
- There is a sequel to Aristotle and Dante Discover The Universe coming.
- Dig into these excellent Latinx YA novels about love.
- And this is one of my favorite reads in a while: When Black kids — shut out from the whitewashed world off children’s literature — took matters into their own hands.
New YA Books
Amelia Unabridged by Ashley Schumacher
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Ashlords by Scott Reintgen (series, paperback)
Bloodsworn by Scott Reintgen (series)
A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas (series)
Deception by Teri Terry (series, paperback)
Imagine Me by Tahereh Mafi (series, paperback)
Just Breathe by Cammie McGovern (paperback)
Miss You Love You Hate You Bye by Abby Sher (paperback)
Of Silver and Shadows by Jennifer Gruenke (paperback
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Reaper of Souls by Rena Barron (series)
A River of Royal Blood by Amanda Joy (series, paperback)
Rules for Vanishing by Kate Alice Marshall
A Shot at Normal by Marisa Reichardt
Solstice by Lorence Alison (paperback)
We Are The Fire by Sam Taylor
The Wide Starlight by Nicole Lesperance
YA Book Talk at Book Riot
- I oversaw the selection of YA titles for this year’s Summer Scares program, and these backlist horror picks are outstanding. Check ’em out and if you work in libraries especially, get to know this free program.
- Sure, these skew younger than YA, but why not take a nostalgic trip back to some of the magazines of your youth?
- Valentine’s Day might be over, but there is no timeline on reading great YA romances.
- Get to know these Caribbean children’s and YA authors.
- And then plug in some headphones and enjoy these great recent YA audiobooks.
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In some of Book Riot’s other newsletters, the writers share a photo of their pets. I figure during this time of year when everyone needs a little smile, why not share one of mine (well, technically two)? Meet Bear, my Flemish Giant rabbit. He is indeed bigger than some of the cats in the house.
Thanks for hanging out, and we’ll see you on Saturday for some epic YA ebook deals.
— Kelly Jensen, @heykellyjensen on Instagram and editor of Body Talk, (Don’t) Call Me Crazy, and Here We Are.
Thanks again to today’s sponsor, Yen Press, publisher of Volume 1 of the Cirque du Freak manga, for making the newsletter possible.
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