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Erica and Tirzah discuss some Indie publishers that publish YA books that you should know about. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.
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Books Mentioned: A Warning About Swans by R.M. Romero (Peachtree) Gabi, a Girl in Pieces by Isabel Quintero (Cinco Puntos) The Queer Girl is Going to Be Okay by Dale Walls (Levine Querido) November 21, 2023 Forgive Me If I’ve Told You This Before by Karelia Stetz-Waters (Ooligan Press) The Prince & the Coyote by David Bowles and Amanda Mijangos (Levine Querido) September 26, 2023 Get It Together, Delilah! by Erin Gough (Chronicle Books) When a Brown Girl Flees by Aamna Qureshi (Lee & Low Books) September 19, 2023 Before the Devil Knows You’re Here by Autumn Krause (Peachtree) (October 3) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Erica discusses a few recent YA dark academia novels to help get into the spirit of fall. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! Book Riot's editorial team is writing for casual and power readers alike over at The Deep Dive! During the month of September, all new free subscribers will be entered to win Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler, plus 5 mystery books from The Deep Dive. To enter, simply start a free subscription to The Deep Dive. No payment method required! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.
Books Discussed Everyone's Thinking It by Aleema Omotoni The Changing Man by Toni Oyemakinde Over My Dead Body by Sweeney Boo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Tirzah and Erica go up against ChatGPT to see who gives the best book recommendations. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! Wanna escape the Dog Days of summer with purrfect book recommendations? Let Tailored Book Recommendations pick awesome books to keep you entertained. Touch grass, grab some lemonade, and enjoy TBR's picks. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.
News: New Hayat Miyazaki Movie!
Books Mentioned:
Erica's and Tirza's Picks Blood Like Magic by Liselle Sambury Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson Girl, Serpent, Thorn by Melissa Bashardoust Fire by Kristin Cashore Right Where I Left You by Julian Winters An Arrow to the Moon by Emily X.R. Pan The Lovely War by Julie Berry Over My Dead Body by Sweeney Boo The Headmaster’s List by Melissa de la Cruz
ChatGPT's Picks: A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas Along for the Ride by Sarah Dessen Percy Jackson by Rick Riordan The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater One of Us is Lying by Karen M. McManus Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson Genuine Fraud by E. Lockhart The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin We Were Liars by E. Lockhart A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert The Cheerleaders by Kara Thomas Little White Lies by Jennifer Lynn Barnes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week, Tirzah talks about two backlist YA books that have been adapted into movies releasing this September. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! Wanna escape the Dog Days of summer with purrfect book recommendations? Let Tailored Book Recommendations pick awesome books to keep you entertained. Touch grass, grab some lemonade, and enjoy TBR's picks. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.
Notes The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight by Jennifer E. Smith Love at First Sight Trailer Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alice Sáenz Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe trailer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Tirzah and Erica have a very non-spoilery discussion of Alechia Dow's A Song of Salvation. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! Wanna escape the Dog Days of summer with purrfect book recommendations? Let Tailored Book Recommendations pick awesome books to keep you entertained. Touch grass, grab some lemonade, and enjoy TBR's picks. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.
News: Loveboat, Taipei is now Love in Taipei, available on Paramount Plus August 10 Landscape with an Invisible Hand is out in theaters August 18
Books Mentioned: A Song of Salvation by Alechia Dow A Spark of White Fire by Sangu Mandanna Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Erica discusses some new YA fantasy novels that you should TBR ASAP (no Rocky). Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! Wanna escape the Dog Days of summer with purrfect book recommendations? Let Tailored Book Recommendations pick awesome books to keep you entertained. Touch grass, grab some lemonade, and enjoy TBR's picks. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books Discussed The Dark Place by Britney S. Lewis The Scarlet Alchemist by Kylie Lee Baker Brooms by Jasmine Walls, illustrated by Teo Duvall Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Erica and Tirzah discuss some backlist YA titles you should check out. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! Wanna escape the Dog Days of summer with purrfect book recommendations? Let Tailored Book Recommendations pick awesome books to keep you entertained. Touch grass, grab some lemonade, and enjoy TBR's picks. News: Heartstopper Season Two Trailer Dropped New App Gives Free Access to Banned Books Depending On Area This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books Discussed: The Golden Day by Ursula Dubosarsky The Do-Over by Lynn Painter Look Back by Tatsuki Fujimoto The Cheerleaders by Kara Thomas East by Edith Pattou The Obsession by Jesse Q. Sutanto Surviving the City by Tasha Spillett, illustrated by Natasha Donovan and Donovan Yaciuk Tell Me How You Really Feel by Aminah Mae Safi Book Club Book: A Song of Salvation by Alechia Dow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week, Tirzah recommends great graphic novel adaptations of popular YA books. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! What do S.A. Cosby, Khaled Hosseini, Sarah Bakewell, and Yahdon Israel have in common? They've been guests on Book Riot's newest podcast, First Edition where BookRiot.com co-founder Jeff O'Neal explores the wide bookish world. Subscribe to hear them and stay to hear Book Riot's editors pick the "it" book of the month. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.
Books Discussed Graceling by Kristin Cashore and Gareth Hinds Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass by Meg Medina and Mel Valentine Vargas (September 5) Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson and Emily Carroll Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds and Danica Novgorodoff 8 Great YA Novels Adapted into Graphic Novels Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Tirzah and Erica look back at some well-established YA authors' debuts. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! What do S.A. Cosby, Khaled Hosseini, Sarah Bakewell, and Yahdon Israel have in common? They've been guests on Book Riot's newest podcast, First Edition where BookRiot.com co-founder Jeff O'Neal explores the wide bookish world. To subscribe, search "First Edition" in your podcast player of choice. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.
News: The Summer I Turned Pretty Season 2 drops Announcing the 2023 Hugo Award Finalists
Books Discussed: The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas Allegedly by Tiffany D. Jackson Spin the Dawn by Elizabeth Lim And Reflection by Elizabeth Lim for Disney Looking for Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta When I Was the Greatest by Jason Reynolds The Key to the Golden Firebird by Maureen Johnson An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir Ash by Malinda Lo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Erica highlights some interesting YA books with tropical settings, full of folklore and history. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! What do S.A. Cosby, Khaled Hosseini, Sarah Bakewell, and Yahdon Israel have in common? They've been guests on Book Riot's newest podcast, First Edition where BookRiot.com co-founder Jeff O'Neal explores the wide bookish world. Subscribe to hear them and stay to hear Book Riot's editors pick the "it" book of the month. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.
Books Discussed The Moonlit Vine by Elizabeth Santiago, Illustrated by McKenzie Mayle Your Corner Dark by Desmond Hall Wildblood by Lauren Blackwood Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Erica and Tirzah discuss the YA books they've read so far this year that they've loved. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! Looking for fascinating stories, informed takes, useful advice, and more drawn from our collective experience as power readers, teachers, librarians, booksellers, and bookish professionals? Subscribe to The Deep Dive, a biweekly newsletter featuring stories to inform and inspire readers, to get exclusive content delivered to your inbox! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. News: The YA winner of the Lambda Awards Books Discussed: The City Beautiful by Aden Polydoros Enter the Body by Joy McCullough All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir The Luis Ortega Survival Club by Sonora Reyes Invisible Son by Kim Johnson A Long Stretch of Bad Days by Mindy McGinnis Cat + Gamer, Vol. 1 and 2 by Wataru Nadatani The Do-Over by Lynn Painter Non YA book briefly mentioned: Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week, Tirzah recommends three creepy horror novels set during summer, perfect for reading around the campfire! Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! Looking for fascinating stories, informed takes, useful advice, and more drawn from our collective experience as power readers, teachers, librarians, booksellers, and bookish professionals? Subscribe to The Deep Dive, a biweekly newsletter featuring stories to inform and inspire readers, to get exclusive content delivered to your inbox! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.
Books Discussed You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight by Kalynn Bayron The Depths by Nicole Lesperance Five Midnights by Ann Dávila Cardinal Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Tirzah and Erica discuss some YA books they are super excited about that are coming out the second half of 2023. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! Sign up for our new newsletter The Deep Dive. Your first read (The Power Reader's Guide to Reading Logs & Trackers) is free. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.
News College Board Defends LGBTQ+ Lessons Against Florida Restrictions
Books Discussed The Dark Place by Britney S. Lewis Before the Devil Knows You’re Here by Autumn Krause A Tall Dark Trouble by Vanessa Montalban Betting on You by Lynn Painter The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White Sleepless in Dubai by Sajni Patel Everyone's Thinking It by Aleema Omotoni Into the Bright Open: A Secret Garden Remix by Cherie Dimaline Ride or Die by Gail-Agnes Musikavanhu The Only Girl in Town by Ally Condie Song of the Lioness Quartet by Tamora Pierce. Read about the 40th Anniversary of Alanna. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Erica discusses a few graphic novels she's read lately that highlight and center queer characters. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! Subscribe to The Deep Dive! Your first read is free (The Power Reader's Guide to Reading Logs & Trackers). Sign up here bookriot.substack.com. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.
Books Discussed Boys Run the Riot by Keito Gaku Bingo Love by Tee Franklin, illustrated by Jenn St. Onge and Joy San Belle of the Ball by Mari Costa Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Tirzah and Erica discuss some recent queer YA reads for Pride and beyond. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! Sign up for our new newsletter The Deep Dive. Your first read (The Power Reader's Guide to Reading Logs & Trackers) is free. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.
News: Inaugural Poem by Amanda Gorman Banned After Single Complaint Nonprofit to Make Book Fairs Accessible to Underserved Students A Poem is Going to Jupiter's Moon Europa (& You Can Go, Too)
Books Discussed: We’ll Never Tell by Wendy Heard Forever Is Now by Mariama J. Lockington Epically Earnest by Molly Horan Transmogrify! by g. haron davis Northranger by Ray Terciero and Bre Indigo The Princess and the Grilled Cheese Sandwich by Deya Muniz The Luis Ortega Survival Club by Sonora Reyes Where Echoes Die by Courtney Gould Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week, Tirzah recommends three YA Austen retellings that aren't Pride and Prejudice. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! BookRiot.com co-founder Jeff O'Neal explores the wide bookish world. Interviews, lists, rankings, retrospectives, recommendations, and much more, featuring people who know and love books. Subscribe to First Edition on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your podcatcher of choice. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.
Books Discussed Hearts, Strings, and Other Breakable Things by Jacqueline Firkin Northranger by Ray Terciero and Are Indigo Rosewood by Sayantani DasGupta Ghosted by Amanda Quain Austenland by Shannon Hale Manslaughter Park by Tirzah Price Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Erica talks about a few new, fantastical YA novels that were inspired by Shakespeare plays. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter!
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BOOKS DISCUSSED: An Arrow to the Moon by Emily X.R. Pan Bright Ruined Things by Samantha Cohoe Foul Lady Fortune by Chloe Gong Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Tirzah and Erica discuss a few cozy YA books set during the holidays. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter!
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SHOW NOTES National Book Awards Winner of Young People’s Literature Award All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir Whiteout by Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, Nicola Yoon Talk Santa to Me by Linda Urban The Christmas Clash by Suzanne Park How to Excavate a Heart by Jake Maia Arlow New Year’s Kiss by Lee Matthews Eight Nights of Flirting by Hannah Reynolds Scattered Showers by Rainbow Rowell Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week, Tirzah shares two newer YA books by Indigenous authors for Native American Heritage Month. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter!
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BOOKS AND LINKS DISCUSSED; The Summer of Bitter and Sweet by Jen Ferguson Walking in Two Worlds by Wab Kinew Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley Heartdrum Hearts Unbroken by Cynthia Leitich Smith Harvest House by Cynthia Leitich Smith Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week, Tirzah and Erica have a (spoiler-y!) discussion of their buddy read of The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D. Jackson! Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter!
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SHOW NOTES: The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D. Jackson White Smoke by Tiffany D. Jackson Carrie by Stephen King Daniel Smith, one of the last living children of enslaved Americans, dies at 90 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Erica kicks off Native American Heritage Month by talking about a few YA graphic novels by Indigenous authors that everyone should pick up. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter!
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SHOW NOTES Pemmican Wars by Katherena Vermette, illustrated by Scott B. Henderson Surviving the City by Tasha Spillett, illustrated by Natasha Donovan Prism Stalker by Sloane Leong Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Tirzah and Erica lean into spooky season and discuss some YA horror novels they’ve been loving or looking forward to reading. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter!
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SHOW NOTES Hayley Kiyoko To Write YA Novel Based on Hit Song Enter to win Book Riot’s Reading the Stars with an Obvious State celestial print, notebook, and tote bundle through October 31st. White Smoke by Tiffany D. Jackson The Taking of Jake Livingston by Ryan Douglass All These Bodies by Kendare Blake Bad Witch Burning by Jessica Lewis Dead Flip by Sara Farizan Undead Girl Gang and Scout’s Honor by Lily Anderson The Gathering Dark edited by Tori Bovalino Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week, Tirzah shares what new titles are on her seasonal October reading list! Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.
Show Notes The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D. Jackson Hollow by Shannon Watters, Branden Boyer, and Berenice Nelle The Taking of Jake Livingston by Ryan Douglas What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher The Clackity by Lora Sent Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week, Erica and Tirzah share some of the most mouth-watering foodie fiction in YA! Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.
Show Notes National Book Award finalists are in! Cover reveal of Ibi Zoboi’s Nigeria Jones Six Crimson Cranes by Elizabeth Lim Hungry Hearts edited by Elsie Chapman and Caroline Tung Richmond Bloom by Kevin Panetta and Savanna Ganucheau My Fine Fellow by Jennieke Cohen Cafe Con Lychee by Emery Lee With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo A Magic Steeped in Poison by Judy I. Lin A La Carte by Tanita S. Davis Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week, Erica discusses a couple YA short story collections worth picking up and adding to your TBR. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.
Books Discussed: A Phoenix Must First Burn, edited by Patrice Caldwell Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens by Marieke Nijkamp Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Tirzah and Erica discuss some fab YA books by Latine authors to read for Latine Heritage Month and beyond. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.
Books and Links: Reading the Stars by Book Riot Reading the Stars giveaway National Book Award for Young People’s Literature Longlist announced Self-Made Boys by Anna Marie-McLemore The Lesbiana’s Guide to Catholic School by Sonora Reyes Our Shadows Have Claws edited by Yamile Saied Méndez Lulu and Milagro’s Search for Clarity by Angela Velez American Street by Ibi Zoboi Fat Chance, Charlie Vega by Crystal Maldonado Burn Down, Rise Up Vincent Tirado Gabi, A Girl in Pieces by Isabel Quintero Want to send us your feedback, requests, and recommendations? Email us at HeyYA@bookriot.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week, Tirzah shares some thoughts on Banned Books Week and how to take action beyond “read banned books.” Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.
Show Notes: How to Fight Book Bans Banned Books Week Official Website Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week, Tirzah and Erica talk about all the things that bring fall vibes to their reading lists! Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.
Books and Links: Enola Holmes 2 is coming! Enola Holmes and the Elegant Escapade by Nancy Springer Pumpkinheads by Rainbow Rowell and Faith Erin Hicks The Accident Season by Moïra Fowley-Doyle Squad by Maggie Tokuda-Hall and Lisa Sterle All Our Hidden Gifts by Caroline O’Donoghue Mooncakes by Suzanne Walker, illustrated by Wendy Xu (Collector’s Edition) Spell on Wheels by Kate Leth, illustrated by Megan Levens and Marissa Louise The Keeper of the Night by Kylie Lee Baker Long Live the Pumpkin Queen by Shea Ernshaw Want to send us your feedback, requests, and recommendations? Email us at HeyYA@bookriot.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Erica discusses some fun and unique graphic novels and manga — both new and a little older — that she’s been reading lately. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.
Books Discussed: The Girl from the Other Side by Nagabe Squire by Sara Alfageeh and Nadia Shammas Over My Dead Body by Sweeney Boo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week, Tirzah and Erica talk about some their favorite audiobook narrators. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Show Notes: A Cuban Girl’s Guide to Tea and Tomorrow is being made into a movie! Books narrated by Frankie Corzo post Frankie Corzo: What I Want You to See by Catherine Linka Never Coming Home by Kate M. Williams A Cuban Girl’s Guide Tea and Tomorrow by Laura Taylor Nameyn Kevin R. Free: The Haunting of Jake Livingston by Ryan Douglass In Deeper Waters by F.T. Lukens James Fouhey: Field Guide to a North American Teenager and Charming as a Verb by Ben Phillipe Grace Rolek: A Thousand Steps Into Night and We Are Not Free by Traci Chee Soneela Nankani: Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens by Tanya Boteju The Knockout by Sajni Patel Natalie Naudus: Daughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn Tan ( Skyhunter by Marie Lu I Kissed Shara Wheeler by Casey McQuiston Emily Woo Zeller: Gloria Chao’s books like Rent A Boyfriend, etc. Outrun the Moon by Stacey Lee It’s Not Like It’s a Secret by Misa Sugiura Christie Moreau: The Inheritance Games and Hawthorne Legacy by Jennifer Lynn Barnes If you want to send an email with feedback or show suggestions, you can reach us at HeyYA@bookriot.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week, Tirzah talks about all the sequels she actually got around to reading this summer! Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. BOOKS DISCUSSED: All Our Hidden Gifts, The Gifts That Bind Us, and Every Gift a Curse by Caroline O’Donoghue This Poison Heart and This Wicked Fate by Kalynn Bayron Six Crimson Cranes and The Dragon’s Promise by Elizabeth Lim The Inheritance Games, The Hawthorne Legacy, and The Final Gambit by Jennifer Lynn Barnes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week, Erica and Tirzah read some of the most popular books on TikTok and talk about their insights into why some of these books are so popular among users. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.
Show Notes: First Kill has been canceled at Netflix Most popular YA books on TikTok TikTok has an official book club The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes The Hawthorne Legacy by Jennifer Lynn Barnes The Final Gambit by Jennifer Lynn Barnes They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera We Were Liars by E. Lockhart Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao If you want to send an email with feedback or show suggestions, you can reach us at HeyYA@bookriot.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Erica discusses a couple books that center artists and their journey. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.
Show Notes: Blank Canvas: My So-Called Artist’s Journey by Akiko Higashimura, translated by Jenny McKeon Starfish by Akemi Dawn Bowman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Tirzah and Erica discuss the books they’re most excited to read that are coming out in the fall. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.
Show Notes Sanaa Lathan directing adaptation of On the Come Up by Angie Thomas Try a demo of the Insiders Index Well, That Was Unexpected by Jesse Q. Sutanto Heart of the Sun Warrior by Sue Lynn Tan The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D. Jackson Rust in the Root by Justina Ireland The Depths by Nicole Lesperance Foul Lady Fortune by Chloe Gong A Scatter of Light by Malinda Lo If You Could See the Sun by Ann Liang Coven by Jennifer Dugan and Kit Seaton The First to Die At the End by Adam Silvera If you want to send an email with feedback or show suggestions, you can reach us at HeyYA@bookriot.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week, Tirzah shares all her (spoiler-free!) thoughts on the Amazon Prime adaptation of Jenny Han’s The Summer I Turned Pretty! Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.
Show Notes: The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han It’s Not Summer Without You by Jenny Han We’ll Always Have Summer by Jenny Han The Summer I Turned Pretty Hits No. 1 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week, Erica and Tirzah recommend YA books for Disability Pride Month! Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. SHOW NOTES I Kissed Shara Wheeler by Casey McQuiston is an inaugural Walmart Book Club Pick Eddie Ndopu on what makes a space accessible The State of Disability Representation in Children’s Literature Breathe and Count Back from Ten by Natalia Sylvester The Degenerates by J. Albert Mann The Weight of Our Sky by Hanna Alkaf Where You See Yourself by Claire Forrest Every Time You Go Away by Abigail Johnson Disability Visibility (Adapted for Young Adults) edited by Alice Wong One For All by Lillie Lainoff Lakelore by Anna-Marie McLemore Mooncakes by Suzanne Walker, illustrated by Wendy Xu If you want to send an email with feedback or show suggestions, you can reach us at HeyYA@bookriot.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Erica discusses a few YA novels that have road trips at their core. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. BOOKS DISCUSSED: The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzie Lee I Wanna Be Where You Are by Kristina Forest Me (Moth) by Amber McBride Lulu and Milagro’s Search for Clarity by Angela Velez Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Tirzah and Erica discuss some of the best books they’ve read in 2022. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books and Sites Discussed: Digital Marketing Manager position Locus award winners Barnes & Noble Best Books of the Year (So Far) 2022 72 Most Popular Books on Goodreads A Thousand Steps Into Night by Traci Chee The Lesbiana’s Guide to Catholic School by Sonora Reyes Daughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn Tan Demon Slayer by Koyoharu Gotouge Jujutsu Kaisen by Gege Akutami The Initial Insult by Mindy McGinnis The Last Laugh by Mindy McGinnis All Our Hidden Gifts by Caroline O’Donoghue The Gifts That Bind Us by Caroline O’Donoghue Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week, Tirzah recommends three YA novels about reproductive freedom. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books Discussed: Unpregnant by Jenni Hendriks and Ted Caplan Aftercare Instructions by Bonnie Pipkin Girls Like Us by Rani Pink Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week, Erica and Tirzah discuss some great resources for free YA books for teens this summer! Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books and Sites Discussed: Queer book sales surge with YA books leading the way NYPL is giving away 500,000 books Riveted Lit Tor.com The Novl SYNC Audiobooks Free comics resources In Purpose Banned Books for Teens Overdrive The Big Library Read Kings, Queens, and In–Betweens and Bruised by Tanya Boeteju When We Were Magic by Sarah Gailey We Are the Ants by Shaun David Hutchinson Autoboyography by Christina Lauren In Deeper Waters by F.T. Lukens A Dark and Hollow Star by Ashley Shuttleworth Sweet and Bitter Magic by Adrienne Tooley Five Total Strangers by Natalie D. Rishcardson Reverie by Ryan La Sala The Girl With the Red Balloon by Katherine Locke Monday’s Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson Dear Martin by Nic Stone All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson Honestly Ben by Bill Konigsburg This is My America by Kim Johnson Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson Sisters of the Snake by Sasha and Sarena Nanua Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Erica discusses a couple new YA books that retell familiar stories in new and interesting ways. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books Discussed: One for All by Lillie Lainoff Alice in Kyoto Forest by by Mai Mochizuki, illustrated by Haruki Niwa Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Tirzah and Erica celebrate Pride Month by discussing some great YA books that center asexual people and characters. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Links Discussed: We’re hiring a Digital Marketing Manager! Applications are due July 10, 2022, 8:45pm Pacific Time. Make sure to check out Riveted Lit’s list of free books for the month of June that we will discuss in the next full episode! Rachel Zegler To Star in Hunger Games Prequel Film Book Riot list of asexual books Epic Reads list of asexual books LGBTQA+ Reads list of books with different representations Books Discussed A Quick and Easy Guide to Asexuality by Molly Muldoon and Will Hernandez Let’s Talk About Love by Claire Kahn Loveless by Alice Oseman Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko Arden Grey by Ray Stoeve Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger Summer Bird Blue by Akemi Dawn Bowman Now Entering Addamsville by Francesca Zappia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week, Tirzah kicks off Pride Month with a bunch of recommendations of 2022 LGBTQ+ YA releases! Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books Discussed Nothing Burns as Bright as You by Ashley Woodfolk The Lesbiana’s Guide to Catholic School by Sonora Reyes Just Your Local Bisexual Disaster by Andrea Mosqueda Out of the Blue by Jason June Epically Earnest by Molly Horan A Little Bit Country by Brian D. Kennedy Youngblood by Sasha Laurens The Killing Code by Ellie Marney None Shall Sleep by Ellie Marney A Scatter of Light by Malinda Lo Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Erica and Tirzah talk about graphic memoirs for YA readers and how this comics format makes for some great nonfiction storytelling! Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Links and Books Discussed: House to hold hearing on classroom censorship Read the letter from 1300 authors condemning book banning Colin Kaepernik is releasing a graphic memoir WeNeedDiverseBooks to send care packages to LGBTQ+ teens and how you can donate Passport by Sophie Gluck Almost American Girl by Robin Ha Banned Book Club by Kim Hyun Sook AOC Huda F Are You? By Huda Fahmy They Called Us Enemy by George Takei, Justin Eisinger, and Steven Scott The Fire Never Goes Out by Noelle Stevenson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week, Erica discusses some anime and manga she’s been enjoying. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books and Links How to read manga Jujutsu Kaisen by Gege Akutami Demon Slayer by Koyoharu Gotouge Dr. Stone by Riichiro Inagaki Attack on Titan by Hajime Isayama Spy x family by Tatsuya Endo Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure by Hirohiko Araki *Honorable mention: Blue Exorcist by Kazue Kato Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Join Tirzah and Erica as they discuss YA news and Queen of the Tiles in a special book club episode. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Links and Books: Book Riot Survey Jenny Han, author of To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before has signed an overall deal with Amazon Prime — the trailer for The Summer I Turned Pretty has been released on Amazon Prime. It’s out June 17. Adaptation of Along for the Ride by Sarah Dessen is now available on Netflix Queen of the Tiles by Hanna Alfa
This week, Tirzah recommends two YA books with some prom night shenanigans! Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.
Books Discussed: Sunny G’s Series of Rash Decisions by Navdeep Singh Dhillon The Night When No One Had Sex by Kalena Miller
Erica and Tirzah talk about the rise of dark academia in YA, what it is, and recommend some great dark academia reads across genres! Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.
Links and Books: The New York Public Library makes banned books available for all Federal library budget increases and how to advocate for them We Need Diverse Books offers educator grants to fight book bannings The New York Times explores the origin of dark academia Dark academia YA books New dark academia YA books releasing in 2022 The Obsession and The New Girl by Jesse Q. Sutanto Very Bad People by Kit Frick The Chandler Legacies by Abdi Nazemian Why Would I Lie? by Adi Rule Strange Sweet Song by Adi Rule If You Could See the Sun by Ann Liang The Devil Makes Three by Tori Bovalino Not Good for Maidens by Tori Bovalino A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
Erica highlights three YA historical fiction books, plus one historical nonfiction, that take place everywhere from the U.S. Civil Rights movement of the ’60s to Berlin, Germany in 1932. Two of them are even in verse. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.
Books Discussed All That Glitters (Enchantee) by Gita Trelease Butterfly Yellow by Thanhha Lai The Most Dazzling Girl in Berlin by Kip Wilson And We Rise by Erica Martin
Tirzah and Erica discuss some exciting YA book news and some great YA mysteries. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.
Books and Links Oscar-Nominated Flee To Be Adapted As YA Book Netflix has added nine actors to the cast for XO, Kitty, its upcoming To All the Boys spinoff series. A Scatter of Light by Malinda Lo cover reveal. Tirzah’s new book Sense and Second-Degree Murder is out now! Grown by Tiffany D. Jackson Monday’s Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson Cold by Mariko Tamaki The Red Palace by June Hur Trouble is a Friend of Mine by Stephanie Tromly Very Bad People by Kit Frick The Drowning Summer by Christine Lynn Herman How We Fall Apart by Katie Zhao
This week, Tirzah recommends two great new YA novels-in-verse for April is Poetry Month! Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.
Books Discussed Lawless Spaces by Corey Ann Haydu Nothing Burns as Bright As You by Ashley Woodfolk
This week, Tirzah and Erica dive into the world of YA cover design and chat about some of their favorite design elements and YA covers in recent years. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books and Links The Heartstopper official trailer dropped! Starling by Isabel Strycachz Six Crimson Cranes & The Dragon’s Promise by Elizabeth Lim A Sitting in St. James by Rita Williams-Garcia I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith, Wednesday Books edition A Magic Steeped in Poison by Judy I. Lin A Thousand Steps into Night by Traci Chee This Poison Heart Kalynn Bayron Year of the Reaper by Makiia Lucier Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo The Winner’s Curse by Marie Rutkoski Spin the Dawn by Elizabeth Lim The Belles by Dhonielle Clayton Nina LaCour’s entire catalog: Hold Still, The Disenchantments, Everything Leads to You, We Are Okay, Watch Over Me Adams Cavarlho on Instagram Book Cover Designers to Follow on Instagram Wednesday Design Random House YA Design
Erica discusses the movie Spirited Away 20 years later and a few books to read that share a lot in common with it. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books Discussed A Thousand Steps Into Night by Traci Chee The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea by Axis Oh (*Correction: release date February 22, 2022) Half World by Hiromi Goto
Tirzah and Erica discuss the book I Know What You Did Last Summer, as well as its film and TV adaptations. They also get into some other YA book to film or TV adaptations they’ve either enjoyed or are looking forward to. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Show Notes I Know What You Did Last Summer by Lois Duncan show on Amazon First Kill by V.E. Schwab on Netflix Enola Holmes by Nancy Springer on Netflix Uglies by Scott Westerfeld on Netflix Legendborn by Tracy Deonn being adapted by Felicia D. Henderson Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi rights landed by Paramount Landscape with an Invisible Hand by M.T. Anderson being adapted by MGM and Plan B Hello, Goodbye and Everything in Between by Jennifer E. Smith rights landed by Netflix The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight by Jennifer E. Smith adaptation also in the works The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han coming to Amazon I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika Sánchez on Netflix
Tirzah recommends four YA duologies that have a book two dropping in 2022! Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books Discussed Tess of the Road by Rachel Hartman In the Serpent’s Wake by Rachel Hartman This Poison Heart by Kalynn Bayron This Wicked Fate by Kalynn Bayron The Initial Insult by Mindy McGinnis The Last Laugh by Mindy McGinnis Six Crimson Cranes by Elizabeth Lim The Dragon’s Promise by Elizabeth Lim
This week, Erica and Tirzah discuss the book challenges sweeping the nation and talk about practical ways to resist, beyond “read banned books.” Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! Show Notes Texas Lawmaker Launches Inquiry into 850 Books via NPR An analysis of all 850 books on Krause’s list via Book Riot Only 27% of Texans trust politician judgment on book censorship via Book Riot Anti-Censorship Toolkit: How to Fight Book Bans and Challenges via Book Riot Anti-Racism Daily Books Back on Shelves in Walla Wall via Book Riot How to respond to a challenge via Book Riot Book Riot’s round up of censorship news
This week, Erica discusses what’s been credited as the first queer novel featuring Black teens, as well as a couple other more recent Black queer YA novels.
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Show Notes
Ruby by Rosa Guy
The Stars and the Blackness Between Them by Junauda Petrus
Right Where I Left You by Julian Winters (out March 2022) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Join Tirzah and Erica as they discuss some wonderfully joyous YA novels featuring Black main characters!
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Books and Links
Dollywood Parks & Resorts covering tuition
Tiffany D, Jackson White Smoke TV news and new cover reveal
Worldle-inspired merch, like mugs, hoodies, shirts, and a tote
Now That I’ve Found You by Kristina Forest
Not Now, Not Ever by Lily Anderson
Blackout by Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk , and Nicola Yoon
Not So Pure and Simple by Lamar Giles
Love Radio by Ebony LaDelle
Charming as a Verb by Ben Phillipe
One True Loves by Elise Bryant
Love is a Revolution by Renée Watson See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week, Tirzah recommends two great YA fantasy novels inspired by the fairy tale The Wild Swans.
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Show Notes
Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier
A Rush of Wings by Laura E. Weymouth
Six Crimson Cranes by Elizabeth Lim See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week, Erica and Tirzah talk about the 2022 ALA Youth Media Awards winners and honors, including the Printz Award!
Editor’s note: Erica misspoke on the podcast and The City Beautiful by Aden Polydoros takes place in Chicago, IL.
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For our extra long list of books discussed in this episode (because they won't all fit in here), visit our website. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week, Erica goes over a few YA books that feature activist main characters, and tips for activism.
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Books and Links
Banned Book Club by Kim Hyun Sook, Ryan Estrada, illustrated by Ko Hyung-Ju
Banned book club started by 8th grader in Kutztown
The latest in censorship news from Kelly Jensen for Book Riot
This Is What I Know About Art by Kimberly Drew, Illustrated by Ashley Lukashevsky
The Voting Booth by Brandy Colbert See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Tirzah and Erica discuss the Shadow and Bone season 2 announcement, the merits of reading the books before watching the show, and the books they want to or have read for Book Riot’s 2022 Read Harder challenge.
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Books and Links
Shadow and Bone back for Season 2, casting announced
Almost American Girl by Robin Ha
March: Book One by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, illustrated by Nate Powell
White Smoke by Tiffany D. Jackson
Vinyl Moon by Mahogany L. Browne
Unpregnant by Jenni Hendriks, Ted Caplan
The Tiger at Midnight by Swati Teerdhala
Ash by Malinda Lo
The Red Palace by June Hur See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week, Tirzah talks about how she bought three Blind Date with a YA Book listings on Etsy, and shares the (mixed) results.
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Books and Links
Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit by Jaye Robin Brown
The Meaning of Birds by Jaye Robin Brown
Heartbreakers by Ali Novak
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares
Crisp Pages & Co. Themed Blind Date with a Book
KtXX22FromMyShelves’ Blind Date with a Book
NeverlandBookCo’s Blind Date with a Book See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
For their first episode of 2022, Erica and Tirzah talk about some of their most-anticipated 2022 releases, and their holiday reading!
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Books and Links
Sweet Valley High Adaptation
Eric Smith to Co-Author Little Jagged Pill
Scout’s Honor by Lily Anderson
The Bone Spindle by Leslie Vedder
Squire by Nadia Shammas and Sara Alfageeh
Why Would I Lie? by Adi Rule
One True Loves by Elise Bryant
The Red Palace by June Hur
Lakelore by Anna-Marie McLemore
A Magic Steeped in Poison by Judy I. Lin
Starling by Isabel Strycachz
Redemptor by Jordan Ifueko
Six Crimson Cranes by Elizabeth Lim See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Tirzah and Erica narrow down a huge list of wonderful books they read this year and talk about some of their favorites, as well as some YA award news.
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Books and Links:
The Morris Award finalists have been announce
Here’s the full Jorts Saga, which started on Reddit as an AITA question (make sure to also read the follow-up)
Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
White Smoke by Tiffany D. Jackson
Six Crimson Cranes by Elizabeth Lim
This Poison Heart by Kalynn Bayron
One of the Good Ones by Maika Moulite and Maritza Moulite
She Drives Me Crazy by Kelly Quindlen
Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao
The Initial Insult by Mindy McGinnis See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Erica gets into a few YA novels in verse with interesting female protagonists.
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Books Discussed:
Me (Moth) by Amber McBride
A Time to Dance by Padma Venkatraman
Home Is Not a Country by Safia Elhillo See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week, Erica and Tirzah discuss the importance of found family YA books, especially during the holidays, and offer some recommendations!
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Books and Links:
LGBTQ+ Youth and Homelessness
They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera
The First to Die at the End by Adam Silvera
The Degenerates by J. Albert Mann
The Good Luck Girls by Charlotte Nicole Davis
The Reckless Kind by Carly Heath
Watch Over Me by Nina LaCour
We Are Okay by Nina LaCour
Bruised by Tanya Boteju
Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko
The Weight of the Stars by K. Ancrum
Darling by K. Ancrum
The Sky Blues by Robbie Couch
The Witch King by H.E. Edgmon
Fairy Tail, Vol. 01 by Hiro Mashima See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Tirzah recommends three YA graphic novels from her 2021 reading.
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Books Discussed:
Cheer Up: Love and Pompoms by Crystal Frasier, Val Wise, and Oscar Jupiter
Squad by Maggie Tokuda-Hall and Lisa Sterle
A Map to the Sun by Sloane Leong See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Tirzah Price is reintroduced to the show as she and Erica discuss some YA news, 2021 releases that were overlooked, as well as a few must-not-miss end of the year releases.
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SHOWNOTES
Books and authors mentioned in the beginning:
Girl, Serpent, Thorn and Girls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust
Rush of Wings by Laura Weymouth,
Lumatere Chronicles by Melina Marchetta
Authors Leigh Bardugo and Sabaa Tahir
Overlooked Books:
Perfectly Parvin by Olivia Abtahi
The Wide Starlight by Nicole Lesperance
This Will Be Funny Someday by Katie Henry
The Valley and the Flood by Rebecca Mahoney
In the Same Boat by Holly Green
Fierce as the Wind by Tara Wilson Redd
Must-Not-Miss End of the Year Releases:
Revolution in Our Time by Kekla Magoon
A Snake Falls to Earth by Darcie Little Badger
Starling by Isabel Strychacz
Skin of the Sea by Natasha Bowen
The Coldest Touch by Isabel Sterling
We Light Up the Sky by Lilliam Rivera See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Erica talks a little about what she finds appealing about space operas and gets into a few YA titles.
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SHOW NOTES
A Spark of White Fire by Sangu Mandanna
Victories Greater Than Death by Charlie Jane Anders
Ignite the Stars by Maura Milan
Sky Without Stars by Jessica Brody and Joanne Rendell See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Kelly and Erica dive into short stories, new and forthcoming YA nonfiction, and Kelly offers her final sign-off.
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SHOWNOTES
“All 850 Books Texas Lawmaker Matt Krause Wants To Ban”
Vampires Never Get Old edited by Zoraida Cordova and Natalie C. Parker
Color Outside the Lines: Stories about Love edited by Sangu Mandanna
Blackout by Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, and Nicola Yoon
Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft edited by Tess Sharpe and Jessica Spotswood
Lips Touch Three Times by Laini Taylor
Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America by Ibi Zoboi
Up All Night edited by Laura Silverman
Meet Cute: Some People Are Destined to Meet by Jennifer L. Armentrout
Disability Visibility (Adapted for Young Adults) by Alice Wong
Black Birds in the Sky by Brandy Colbert
Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask: Young Readers Edition by Anton Treuer
Feminist AF: A Guide to Crushing Girlhood by Brittney Cooper, Chanel Craft Tanner, and Susana Morris
Man Called Horse: John Horse and the Black Seminole Underground Railroad by Glennette Tilley Turner (note: for some reason the upcoming young reader edition isn’t showing up on Amazon, but it’s available to look at here!).
The Overground Railroad by Candacy Taylor
Star Child: A Biographical Constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler by Ibi Zoboi
Notable Native People: 50 Indigenous Leaders, Dreamers, and Changemakers from Past and Present by Adrienne Keene See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Erica discusses YA novels from all over the world— a few of which have won awards— that have been translated into English.
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SHOW NOTES
Almond by Won-pyung Sohn, from South Korea
Wondrous Journeys in Strange Lands by Sonia Nimr, from Palestine
The Other Side by Juan Pablo Villalobos, from Mexico
Here the Whole Time by Vitor Martins, from Brazil
Aya by Marguerite Abouet, from the Ivory Coast See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Kelly and Erica get a little spicy as they discuss some wonderful YA retellings as well as books that take place in areas outside of Europe and the United States.
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Shownotes
Tell Me My Name by Amy Reed
Pride by Ibi Zoboi
Where The Rhythm Takes You by Sarah Dass
Cinderella is Dead by Kalynn Bayron
Lost In The Never Woods by Aiden Thomas
These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong, Shanghai
I Killed Zoe Spanos by Kit Frick
Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor
A Small Charred Face by Kazuki Sakuraba
Diary of a Tokyo Teen by Christin Mari Inzer
Bloody Seoul by Sonia Patel
Wicked Fox by Kat Cho
Facing the Sun by Janice Lynn Mather
The House of Rust by Khadija Abdalla Bajaber
For more YA set around the world, check out this post from Kelly. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Kelly and guest Amma Marfo talk about The Baby-Sitters Club, Season Two.
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SHOW NOTES
Amma Marfo — Twitter, Instagram See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Kelly and Erica dive into recent YA books that explore mental health and highlight some really pretty graphic novels.
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SHOWNOTES
White Smoke by Tiffany D. Jackson
Black Girl Unlimited by Echo Brown
Home, Home by Lisa Allen Agostini
When The Stars Lead To You by Ronni Davis
The Weight of Our Sky by Hanna Alkaf
The Astonishing Color of After by Emily XR Pan
The Surprising Power of a Good Dumpling by Wai Chim
Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo
The New David Espinoza by Fred Aceves
The Sprite and the Gardener by Rii Abrego and Joe Whitt
Summer Spirit by Elizabeth Holleville
Squad by Maggie Tokuda-Hall
I Was Their American Dream by Malaka Gharib
The Tea Dragon Series by Kay O’Neill, starting with the Tea Dragon Society
My Last Summer with Cass by Mark Crilley
Witchlight by Jessi Zabarsky
Crushing by Sophie Burrows See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Kelly offers a history of the YA career novel, a genre catering to showcasing jobs to (white, straight) teen girls before they took their real jobs as wives.
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SHOW NOTES
“Is The Nurse Portrayed in Career Novels Fiction or Real?”
“Mapping a History of Adolescence and Literature For Adolescents“
“Cherry Ames Nursing Game”
Series Books website
Cherry Ames, Island Nurse See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jenn from Book Riot’s Get Booked podcast joins Erica to discuss the current state of dystopian YA compared to the Hunger Games era.
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Shownotes
Gearbreakers by Zoe Hana Mikuta
We Set the Dark on Fire by Tehlor Kay Mejia
The Ones We’re Meant to Find by Joan He
Skyhunter by Marie Lu
War Girls by Tochi Onyebuchi
Sanctuary by Paola Mendoza and Abby Sher See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Erica shares a few romances– whimsical as well as serious– that feature diverse characters.
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Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo
A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Tahereh Mafi
SOMEWHERE ONLY WE KNOW BY MAURENE GOO
I Wanna Be Where You Are by Kristina Forest See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Kelly and Erica highlight excellent books for Latinx Heritage Month and dig into must-read YA memoirs.
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Shownotes
Latinx Kid Lit Book Fest
Simone Breaks All The Rules by Debbie Rigaud
Fat Chance, Charlie Vega by Crystal Maldonado
“Fat Girls in YA” with Crystal Maldonado
Somewhere Between Bitter And Sweet by Laekan Zea Kemp
Tigers, Not Daughters by Samantha Mabry
Undead Girl Gang by Lily Anderson
Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White by Lila Quintero Weaver
How Moon Fuentez Fell in Love with the Universe by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland
Indivisible by Daniel Aleman
I Was Their American Dream by Malaka Gharib
The Beautiful Struggle (Young Reader’s Edition) by Ta-Nehisi Coates
We Are Not Broken by George M Johnson
Almost American Girl by Robin Ha
On Top of Glass by Karina Manta
Brave Face: A Memoir by Shaun David Hutchinson
A Face for Picasso by Ariel Henry
Notes from a Young Black Chef (Adapted for Young Adults) by Kwame Onwuachi See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Erica shares a couple books that made her want to read more as an adult, as well as some she’s really looking forward to.
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When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab
Within These Wicked Walls by Lauren Blackwood
One of the Good Ones by Maika Moulite and Maritza Moulite See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Kelly and Erica talk about new releases they’re loving so far and about those they’re excited to be released.
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BOOKS DISCUSSED
Summer Spirit by Elizabeth Holleville
The Taking of Jake Livingston by Ryan Douglass
A Sitting in St James by Rita Williams-Garcia
The Dead and the Dark by Courtney Gould
Love is a Revolution by Renee Watson
Bad Witch Burning by Jessica Lewis
The Bones of Ruin by Sarah Raughley
All These Bodies by Kendare Blake
Things We Couldn’t Say by Jay Coles
Black Birds in the Sky by Brandy Colbert
White Smoke by Tiffany Jackson
Huda F Are You? By Huda Fahmy
A Dark and Starless Forest by Sarah Hollowell
Not Here To Be Liked by Michelle Quach
Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao
You Can Go Your Own Way by Eric Smith See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Kelly talks about three recent YA books that explore contemporary history from 1960-today.
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SHOW NOTES
From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chen and the Trial that Galvanized The Asian American Movement by Paula Yoo
Baby and Solo by Lisabeth Posthuma
Walls by LM Elliott See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Kelly and Erika talk about excellent diverse science fiction and fantasy, then offer up some delicious new foodie fiction.
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BOOKS DISCUSSED
Spin the Dawn by Elizabeth Lim
A Snake Falls to Earth by Darcie Little Badger
A Song Below Water by Bethany C. Marrow
Sisters of the Snake by Sasha and Sarena Nanua
Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Córdova
Darling by K. Ancrum
An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir
This Poison Heart by Kaylynn Bayron
Prism Stalker, Vol. 1 by Sloane Leong
We Light Up the Sky by Lilliam Rivera
A Taste for Love by Jennifer Yen
A Pho Love Story by Loan Le
Donuts and Other Proclamations of Love by Jared Reck
The Secret Recipe for Moving On by Karen Bischer
Radha and Jai’s Recipe for Romance by Nisha Sharma
A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher
It’s Kind of a Cheesy Love Story by Lauren Morrill
The Music of What Happens by Bill Konigsberg See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Kelly shares the history and context of the first true YA book, Maureen Daly’s Seventeenth Summer.
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Show Notes
Seventeenth Summer by Maureen Daly
Literary Ladies Guide: Maureen Daly
“Fond du Lac was the birthplace of young adult novels: Celebrating Maureen Daly”
“On The Solid Side”
Girls in Bloom: Coming of Age in the Mid-20th Century Woman’s Novel by Francis Booth See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Kelly and Erica (re)introduce themselves and talk about fun, uplifting fantasy reads, as well as excellent short reads.
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BOOKS DISCUSSED
Dead, Dead Girls by Nekesa Afia
My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows
Mooncakes by Suzanne Walker and Wendy Xu
Reverie by Ryan La Sala
The Afterward by EK Johnston
The Okay Witch by Emma Steinkellner
In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan
Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson
Not Your Sidekick by CB Lee
Flyy Girls series by Ashley Woodfolk
Check, Please! By Ngozi Ukazu
Dancing at the Pity Party by Tyler Feder
The Golden Day by Ursula Dubosarsky
First Day on Earth by Cecil Castellucci
After Tupac and D Foster by Jacqueline Woodson
NotYourPrincess: Voices of Native American Women edited by Lisa Charleyboy and Mary Beth Leatherdale
The Things She’s Seen by Ambelin Kwaymullina and Ezekiel Kwaymullina See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week, Tirzah talks about her most anticipated fall 2021 YA releases, which end up being mostly unintentionally dark and murder-y.
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Books Discussed:
Fresh by Margot Wood
Emma by Jane Austen
The Dead and the Dark by Courtney Gould
Edie in Between by Laura Sibson
Cheer Up: Love and Pom Poms by Crystal Fraiser and Val Wise
Bad Witch Burning by Jessica Lewis
Not Here to Be Liked by Michelle Quach
White Smoke by Tiffany D. Jackson
Allegedly by Tiffany D. Jackson
Monday’s Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson
Grown by Tiffany D. Jackson
All These Bodies by Kendare Blake
Within These Wicked Walls by Lauren Blackwood
Vespertine by Margaret Rogerson
How Not to Fall in Love by Jacqueline Firkins
Black Birds in the Sky by Brandy Colbert See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
On this episode of Hey YA, Tirzah chats with YA author Jacqueline Firkins about YA romance, our favorite rom-com tropes, and book dresses!
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Books Discussed:
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
Hearts, Strings, and Other Breakable Things by Jacqueline Firkins
How Not to Fall in Love by Jacqueline Firkins
Love and Other Foreign Words by Erin McCahan
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
The Lucky List by Rachael Lippincott
Perfect on Paper by Sophie Gonzales
Glimpsed by G.F. Miller
Better Than the Movies by Lynn Painter
Love is a Revolution by Renée Watson
She Drives Me Crazy by Kelly Quindlen
Perfectly Parvin by Olivia Abtahi
Sunny Song Will Never Be Famous by Suzanne Park
More great YA romances coming out January-June of 2021, and July-December 2021 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week, Tirzah re-reads two early YA books and talks about whether or not she would still recommend them today!
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Books Discussed:
Gingerbread by Rachel Cohn
Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison
Perfectly Parvin by Olivia Abtahi
Gabi, a Girl in Pieces by Isabel Quintero See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week, Tirzah and Vanessa share their favorite YA releases of 2021 so far, and two upcoming YA releases they’re excited about.
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Books Discussed:
Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo
Yolk by Mary H.K. Choi
Perfectly Parvin by Olivia Abtahi
The Initial Insult by Mindy McGinnis
She Drives Me Crazy by Kelly Quindlen
The Girls I’ve Been by Tess Sharpe
Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley
The Forest of Stolen Girls by June Hur
The Gilded Ones by Namina Forna
Once Upon a Quinceañera by Monica Gomez-Hira
Dangerous Play by Emma Kress
The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina by Zoraida Córdova See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week, Tirzah and special guest Emma Kress, author of Dangerous Play, discuss girls in sports in YA!
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Books Discussed:
Dangerous Play by Emma Kress
In the Same Boat by Holly Green
She Drives Me Crazy by Kelly Quindlen
The Knockout by Sajni Patel
Throw Like a Girl by Sarah Henning
Michigan vs. the Boys by Carrie S. Allen
Kisses and Croissants by Anne-Sophie Jouhanneau
Break the Fall by Jennifer Iacopelli
Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley
Furia by Yamile Saied Mendez
A Map to the Sun by Sloane Leong
Bruised by Tanya Boteju
Note: After recording, we discovered Cheer Up: Love and Pom-Poms by Crystal Frasier and Val Wise, a YA graphic novel about a trans teen girl who is the captain of the cheer squad. We highly recommend it, and we’d love to see more trans teen girls in sports in YA. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week, Hannah and Tirzah had a scheduling snafu, so we’re diving into the Book Riot podcast vaults to share an episode in which YA authors Malinda Lo and Jason Reynolds share books that shaped them.
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Books Discussed
Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Em(ily) Dickson, cofounder of Pronouns May Vary, joins Hannah to talk about gender, shapeshifting, and graphic novels! Please note that this episode contains many colloquial phrases, words, and jokes that are very context-contingent and in-group-based for the queer community.
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Show Notes Books
The Girl from the Sea by Molly Ostertag
You Brought Me the Ocean by Alex Sanchez
The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen
The Bailey School Kids series by Debbie Dadey and Marcia Thornton Jones
Animorphs series
Island of the Aunts by Eva Ibbotson
The Secret of Platform 13 by Eva Ibbotson
Nimona by Noelle Stevenson
Anya’s Ghost by Vera Brosgol
Taproot by Keezy Young
Witchlight by Jessi Zabarsky
Mooncakes by Wendy Xu and Suzanne Walker
Squad by Maggie Tokuda-Hall and Lisa Sterle
TV, Movies, and More
Aquamarine
Siren
Once Were Warriors
H2O: Just Add Water
The Thirteenth Year
Sabrina Down Under
Pronouns May Vary
All fantasy creatures are genderdiverse–what are you?
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Hannah and Tirzah gush about some of the many wonderful film and TV adaptations of YA books that have been released in recent months.
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Show notes
Panic by Lauren Oliver (Amazon Prime)
Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu (Netflix [also, the Linda Lindas!])
The Map of Tiny Perfect Things by Lev Grossman [from Summer Days and Summer Nights edited by Stephanie Perkins] (Amazon)
Unpregnant by Jenni Hendriks & Ted Caplan (HBO Max)
Monster by Walter Dean Myers (Netflix)
Ghetto Cowboy by G. Neri (Concrete Cowboy on Netflix)
Grishaverse by Leigh Bardugo (Shadow and Bone on Netflix)
Dash and Lily’s Book of Dares by Rachel Cohn & David Levithan (Netflix)
To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han (Netflix)
The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han
Dr. Bird’s Advice for Sad Poets by Evan Roskos (your streamer of choice)
The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness (Chaos Walking on your streamer of choice)
There’s Someone Inside Your House by Stephanie Perkins
The Girls I’ve Been by Tess Sharpe
The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight by Jennifer E. Smith
Windfall by Jennifer E. Smith
Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley
I’ll Be the One by Lyla Lee
News and tidbits
YA adaptation previews
Rioters’ takes on Shadow and Bone (Article 1, Article 2)
Ibi Zoboi’s Okoye news!
‘Panic’ season 2 predictions/news/lack of news/potential spoilers
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Tirzah talks about the fifth anniversary edition of an important queer YA book!
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Books Discussed:
You Know Me Well by David Levithan and Nina LaCour
Late to the Party by Kelly Quindlen
Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens by Tanya Boteju See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Tirzah and Hannah welcome special guest Sheba Karim, whose latest book is about a topic near and dear to Hannah and Tirzah’s hearts–stories about college and other post-high school experiences.
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Show Notes
Books for Hope
The Marvelous Mirza Girls by Sheba Karim
Emergency Contact by Mary H.K. Choi
Like Water by Rebecca Podos
The Gilded Years by Karin Tanabe
Movie news about The Gilded Years
Permanent Record by Mary H.K. Choi
Yolk by Mary H.K. Choi
Mariam Sharma Hits the Road by Sheba Karim
That Thing We Call a Heart by Sheba Karim
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
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This week on Hey YA: Extra Credit, Tirzah talks about some great YA books that highlight working class teens with jobs!
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Books Discussed:
My Best Everything by Sarah Tomp
Jackpot by Nic Stone
Get It Together, Delilah! by Erin Gough
Permanent Record by Mary H.K. Choi
Please Ignore Vera Dietz by A.S. King
Charming As a Verb by Ben Philippe
Some Girls Do by Jennifer Dugan
Story of a Girl by Sara Zarr
The Babysitter’s Coven by Kate Williams See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Hannah and Tirzah talk generation gaps, chronological problems, intergenerational relationships, and multigenerational stories.
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Show notes
The Bookseller mixup
Cases of mistaken identity:
Adam Silvera and Mohsin Zaidi
Hannah and Stephanie Kuehn
Tirzah and Angeline Boulley
Books!
The Devil’s Arithmetic by Jane Yolen
The Assignment by Liza Wiemer
Unbecoming by Jenny Downham
Dream Country by Shannon Gibney
The Whitsun Daughters by Carrie Mesrobian
You Bring the Distant Near by Mitali Perkins
Mare’s War by Tanita S. Davis
Love is a Revolution by Reneé Watson
The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender by Leslye Walton
The Price Guide to the Occult by Leslye Walton
Dig by A.S. King
Blessing’s Bead by Debby Dahl Edwardson
The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert
Looking for Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta
Hey YA episode on Melina Marchetta
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This week, Tirzah discusses her love of everything written by Australian author Melina Marchetta, provides a run-down of her YA fiction, and recommends a few different entry points!
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Books Discussed:
Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta
Looking for Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta
Saving Francesca by Melina Marchette
The Piper’s Son by Melina Marchetta
A Place on Dalhousie by Melina Marchetta
Finnikin of the Rock by Melina Marchetta
Froi of the Exiles by Melina Marchetta
Quintana of Charyn by Melina Marchetta
Tell the Truth, Shame the Devil by Melina Marchetta See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Hannah and Tirzah talk about exciting news from Disney-Hyperion and then dive into standalone high fantasy.
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Show notes
Disney-Hyperion news
“Brown for No Reason” article
Beauty by Robin McKinley
Sunshine by Robin McKinley
Cinderella is Dead by Kalynn Bayron
This Poison Heart by Kalynn Bayron
Girl, Serpent, Thorn by Melissa Bashardoust
Girls Made of Glass and Snow by Melissa Bashardoust
Zahrah the Windseeker by Nnedi Okorafor
Belle Révolte by Linsey Miller
Ash by Malinda Lo
Huntress by Malinda Lo
Sweet and Bitter Magic by Adrienne Tooley
The Light Between Worlds by Laura E. Weymouth
A Curse Dark As Gold by Elizabeth C. Bunce
In the Ravenous Dark by A.M. Strickland
The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea by Maggie Tokuda-Hall
Empress of All Seasons by Emiko Jean
Don’t Call the Wolf by Aleksandra Ross
Burn by Patrick Ness (mentioned by Hannah as “another book about dragons”)
The Dark Tide by Alicia Jasinska
The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea by Axie Oh (releases February 2022–sorrynotsorry!)
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Summer’s nearly here, and everybody loves summer reading! Hannah is here to give you a preview of some of the books she and Tirzah plan on reading (or revisiting) this summer in order to watch the video on-demand screen adaptations of, and then they’ll be talking about them on the podcast. Please read and watch alongside us, and let us know what you’re thinking on social media! And stay tuned for episodes all summer long, of course.
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Show Notes
Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu
The Grisha Trilogy by Leigh Bardugo
Ghetto Cowboy by G. Neri and Jesse Joshua Watson
Unpregnant by Jenni Hendriks and Ted Caplan
Dr. Bird’s Advice for Sad Poets by Evan Roskos
The Map of Tiny Perfect Things by Lev Grossman
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Hannah and Tirzah give a lesson on the history of publishing’s paperback and hardcover divide, and intersections with socioeconomic classes, capitalism, and more….then they talk about small and indie presses, which makes for a lot of overlap with the paperback conversation, actually!
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Show Notes: Books
The Vicious Deep by Zoraida Córdova
The Obsession by Jesse Q. Sutanto
I Think I Love You by Auriane Desombre
Oksi by Mari Ahokoivu
Five Total Strangers by Natalie D. Richards
In the Shadow of Blackbirds by Cat Winters
The Cure for Dreaming by Cat Winters
The Steep and Thorny Way by Cat Winters
Blood Countess by Lana Popović
Poison Priestess by Lana Popović
The Blood Confession by Alisa M. Libby
Thirty Talks Weird Love by Alessandra Narvaez Varela
Gabi, a Girl in Pieces by Isabel Quintero
Apple: Skin to the Core by Eric Gansworth
Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger and Rovina Cai
Cheer Up! by Crystal Frasier and Val Wise
The Tea Dragon Society by Katie O’Neill
What I Like About Me by Jenna Guillaume
You Were Made for Me by Jenna Guillaume
Manic Pixie Dream Boy Improvement Project by Lenore Appelhans
Forgive Me If I’ve Told You This Before by Karelia Stetz-Waters
Mercury Boys by Chandra Prasad
Summer in the City of Roses by Michelle Ruiz Keil
Summer of the Mariposas by Guadalupe Garcia McCall
I Am Alfonso Jones by Tony Medina
Hammer of Witches by Shana Mlawski
Ink and Ashes by Valynne E. Maetani
Show Notes: Publishers and Other Links
Swoon Reads
Underlined
Wattpad Books
Sourcebooks Fire
PJ Library / PJ Our Way
Imagination Library
Abrams / Amulet
Cinco Puntos Press
Levine Querido
Oni Press
Peachtree Publishing
KCP Loft
Ooligan Press
Soho Press
Lee & Low / Tu Books
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Happy Poetry Month! Hannah dives into twenty years’ worth of narrative verse–and a little standalone poetry, too. Also, Kelly’s baby is here and adorable, hooray!
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Show Notes
Elizabeth Acevedo
Melanie Crowder
Allan Wolf
Stop Pretending by Sonya Sones
Saving Red by Sonya Sones
The Lightning Dreamer by Margarita Engle
A Wreath for Emmett Till by Marilyn Nelson
How I Discovered Poetry by Marilyn Nelson
American Ace by Marilyn Nelson
Skyscraping by Cordelia Jensen
An Unkindness of Ravens by Meg Kearney
The Secret of Me by Meg Kearney
Audacious by Gabrielle Prendergast
Capricious by Gabrielle Prendergast
The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta
Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam
Who Put This Song On? by Morgan Parker
There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé by Morgan Parker
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Kelly departs for maternity leave a few days early, so Hey YA gives an early welcome to its new interim co-host, Book Riot’s own Tirzah Price! Tirzah and Hannah already co-host the Read Harder podcast, part of Book Riot’s InsidEars perks, so they recommend a number of YA books that hit many of the Read Harder challenge tasks.
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Show Notes
Dark and Deepest Red by Anna-Marie McLemore
Miss Meteor by Anna-Marie McLemore and Tehlor Kay Mejía
The Black Friend by Frederick Joseph
Fighter in Velvet Gloves by Annie Boochever and Roy A. Peratrovich, Jr.
Blessing’s Bead by Debby Dahl Edwardson
Bronze and Sunflower by Cao Wenxuan
Colorful by Eto Mori
Hey YA episode on books in translation
Queer, There, and Everywhere by Sarah Prager
The Stonewall Riots: Coming Out in the Streets by Gayle Pittman
The Things She’s Seen by Ambelin and Ezekiel Kwaymullina
Tantalize by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Fat Chance, Charlie Vega by Crystal Maldonado
Hey YA: Extra Credit with Crystal Maldonado
I’ll Be the One by Lyla Lee
Meet Cute Diary by Emery Lee
May the Best Man Win by Z.R. Ellor
A Universe of Wishes edited by Dhonielle Clayton
1000 Beginnings and Endings edited by Ellen Oh and Elsie Chapman
Make It Messy by Marcus Samuelsson with Veronica Chambers
Notes from a Young Black Chef: YA Edition by Kwame Onwuachi with Joshua David Stein
Gabi, A Girl in Pieces by Isabel Quintero
The Darkness Outside Us by Eliot Schrefer
Castle in the Clouds by Kerstin Gier
XOXO by Axie Oh
Enchanted Air by Margarita Engle
Soaring Earth by Margarita Engle
Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens edited by Marieke Nijkamp
Laughing at My Nightmare by Shane Burcaw
Strangers Assume My Girlfriend is My Nurse by Shane Burcaw
Now That I’ve Found You by Kristina Forest
Hey YA: Extra Credit episode with Kristina Forest
Charming As a Verb by Ben Philippe
Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo
The Initial Insult by Mindy McGinnis
You Should See Me In a Crown by Leah Johnson
The Edge of Anything by Nora Shalaway Carpenter
Marcelo in the Real World by Francisco X. Stork
Disappeared by Francisco X. Stork
The Babysitters’ Coven by Kate Williams
Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger and Rovina Cai
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There is a lot more important work to be done, but it didn’t seem right to ignore the white supremacist terrorist act last week in Atlanta, so Hannah invited Japanese-American author Misa Sugiura to the podcast to discuss some AAPI YA authors that are a little more under the radar than the ones you’ve heard of. One book for each author is linked; the show discusses the authors’ bodies of work.
Misa is the author of It’s Not Like It’s a Secret, Love and Other Natural Disasters, and This Time Will Be Different. Find her on Twitter and Instagram.
Thanks to Rioter Patricia Thang for her guidance in preparing this episode.
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Show Notes
Peasprout Chen series by Henry Lien
Rani Patel in Full Effect by Sonia Patel
The Girl from Everywhere by Heidi Heilig
A Time to Dance by Padma Venkatraman
This is My Brain in Love by I.W. Gregorio
Starfish by Akemi Dawn Bowman
Control by Lydia Kang
Serpentine by Cindy Pon
The Only Thing to Fear by Caroline Tung Richmond
Super Fake Love Song by David Yoon
Written in the Stars by Aisha Saeed
Not Your Sidekick by C.B. Lee
Noteworthy by Riley Redgate
Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel by Sara Farizan
Like a Love Story by Abdi Nazemian
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Hannah and Kelly talk about awesome YA historical fiction featuring female leads and dig into YA mysteries — where have they gone?
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SHOW NOTES
Mazie by Melanie Crowder
The Degenerates by J. Albert Mann
Luck of the Titanic by Stacey Lee
Orphan Monster Spy by Matt Killeen
The Black Kids by Christina Hammonds Reed
The Kingdom of Back by Marie Lu
Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinida Lo
When The Ground Is Hard by Malla Nunn
Out of Shadows by Jason Wallace
Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley
Goldie Vance: The Hotel Whodunit by Lilliam Rivera
Far From You by Tess Sharpe
Hey YA: Extra Credit about Far From You
Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger and Rovina Cai
Undead Girl Gang by Lily Anderson
Ruby In The Smoke by Philip Pullman
Jackaby by William Ritter
City of Villains by Estelle Laure See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In honor of job interview season in the academic world, Hannah gets introspective and considers what makes a good educator, highlighting five YA books with dope educators in them.
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Show Notes
Education for Critical Consciousness by Paulo Freire
Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
Dear Martin by Nic Stone
A Cloud of Outrageous Blue by Vesper Stamper
Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam
When Reason Breaks by Cindy L. Rodriguez
Breath Like Water by Anna Jarzab
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Hannah and Kelly talk about teens and traumatic content, then highlight a range of Black science fiction and fantasy reads.
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SHOW NOTES
“A Utah School Made Black History Month Optional. Then It Reversed Itself.”
“Utah School Reexamines Allowing Parents To Opt Out Of Black History Month Curriculum”
“Utah parents complained after kids were read a story about a transgender boy. Now other diverse books are on hold.”
Darling by K. Ancrum
The Cost of Knowing by Brittney Morris
A River of Royal Blood by Amanda Joy
A Queen of Gilded Horns by Amanda Joy
War Girls by Tochi Onyebuchi
This Poison Heart by Kalynn Baron
The Summer Prince by Alaya Dawn Johnson
Witches Steeped in Gold by Ciannon Smart
The Shadow Speaker by Nnedi Okorafor
Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor
A Phoenix First Must Burn by Patrice Caldwell
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Kelly highlights this year’s YA Summer Scares horror selections. Get to know some rad horror books and a rad horror-focused program.
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SHOW NOTES
Summer Scares 2021 Winners and Program Information
The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline [Dancing Cat Books, 2017]
The Diviners by Libba Bray [Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2012]
Undead Girl Gang by Lily Anderson [Razorbill, 2018]
Summer Scares 2020 Winners
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Hannah and Kelly dive into YA books without romance, then highlight excellent romance YA books.
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SHOW NOTES
100 Must-Read YA Books With Little or No Romance
Watch Over Me by Nina LaCour
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins
Spin by Lamar Giles
Monday’s Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson
The Good Luck Girls by Charlotte Nicole Davis
Thirty Talks Weird Love by Alessandra Narváez Varela
Film: A Dona da Historia
Unpregnant by Ted Caplan and Jenni Hendriks
Muted by Tami Charles
Grown by Tiffany D. Jackson
Dread Nation by Justina Ireland
I’ll Be The One by Lyla Lee
Rent-A-Boyfriend by Gloria Chao
Daughters of Jubilation by Kara Lee Corthron
Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo
Go With The Flow by Karen Schneemann and Lily Williams
10 Blind Dates by Ashley Elston
Hearts Unbroken by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Jay’s Gay Agenda by Jason June See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Kelly and guest author Tiffany Schmidt talk about Cynthia Leitich Smith’s recently re-released book Rain Is Not My Indian Name and dig into where the YA for younger YA readers is.
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Show Notes
Get a Clue by Tiffany Schmidt
Rain Is Not My Indian Name by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Twenty Boy Summer by Sarah Ockler See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Hannah and Kelly talk about the ALA Youth Media Award winners and honorees, then dig into imaginary YA book titles, pairing them with real YA books and/or dream titles.
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SHOW NOTES
ALA Youth Media Award announcements
All Thirteen by Christina Soontornvat
Woven in Moonlight by Isabel Ibañez
Dragon Hoops by Gene Luen Yang
X: A Novel by Ilyasah Shabazz and Kekla Magoon
Beetle & The Hollowbones illustrated and written by Aliza Layne
You Should See Me In a Crown by Leah Johnson
Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender
Darius The Great Deserves Better by Adib Khorram
The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry
Kent State by Derf Backderf
The Kids Are Gonna Ask by Gretchen Anthony
Furia by Yamile Saied Méndez
Never Look Back by Lilliam Rivera
We Are Not From Here by Jenny Torres Sanchez
Dancing at the Pity Party by Tyler Feder
“What’s Your Sherlock Story?”
Breath by Donna Jo Napoli
“Your Quirky YA Title”
The Quantum Weirdness of the Almost-Kiss by Amy Noelle Parks
YA Book Titles With Math Equations
“Your YA Adventure Title”
Food Wars! By Yuto Tsukuda
Make It Messy by Marcus Samuelsson with Veronica Chambers
Sunny Song Will Never Be Famous by Suzanne Park
“What’s Your YA Epic Fantasy Series Title?”
The Firefly Letters by Margarita Engle
Mary’s Monster by Lita Judge
The Kingdom of Back by Marie Lu
The Blossom and the Firefly by Sherri L. Smith
“What’s Your Atmospheric YA Book Title?”
The Wicked Deep by Shae Ernshaw
“What’s Your Sherlock Title?”
The Downstairs Girl by Stacey Lee
“What’s Your YA Horror Title?”
“What’s Your YA Book Identity?” See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Hannah and special guest Emily Blaeser compare their experiences on YALSA’s Amazing Audiobooks committee and talk about the best in YA recordings….but first about Mary Roach, Anastasia Krupnik, and Kristy Thomas’ girl gang. Hannah forgets the word but knows some examples of antanaclasis in English and French. Also, it’s Lupin, not lapin 🐇!
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Show Notes
We Are Not Free by Traci Chee
Legendborn by Tracy Deonn
Avalon High by Meg Cabot
A Kid in King Arthur’s Court
The Extraordinaries by T.J. Klune
Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
The Diviners by Libba Bray
The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater
Internment by Samira Ahmed
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo
Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree by Adaobi Tricia Ndwaubani
Etiquette and Espionage by Gail Carriger
Titanic
The Lines We Cross by Randa Abdel-Fattah
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Hannah and Kelly talk about YA books set in super short time frames, as well as YA books about the end of the world.
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SHOW NOTES
Tyra Banks’s Smizecream
Modelland by Tyra Banks
The Wig, the Bitch and the Meltdown by Jay Manuel
The Bridge by Bill Konigsberg
This Is All Your Fault by Aminah Mae Safi
Sam and Ilsa’s Last Hurrah by David Levithan and Rachel Cohn
Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist by David Levithan and Rachel Cohn
We Are The Wildcats by Siobhan Vivian
We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry
They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera
The Voting Booth by Brandy Colbert
We Didn’t Ask for This by Adi Alsaid
Rose Sees Red by Cecil Castellucci
The Girls I’ve Been by Tess Sharpe
Odessa by Jonathan Hill
Burn by Patrick Ness
“Burn Gets TV Adaptation” news
We Are The Ants by Shaun David Hutchinson
The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline
The Sound of Stars by Alechia Dow
Starglass by Phoebe North
Agnes at the End of the World by Kelly McWilliams
This Is Not a Test by Courtney Summers
So This is How It Ends by Tui T. Sutherland See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Hannah recommends recent picture books that go well with some YA favorites and under-sung gems. She is also happy to provide potato chip and cheese pairings upon request via Twitter or Instagram 😉
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Show Notes
Balletball by Erin Dionne and Gillian Flint
Goldfish by Nat Luurtsema
Sulwe by Lupita Nyong’o and Vashti Harrison
Miss Meteor by Tehlor Kay Mejia and Anna-Marie McLemore
Not My Girl by Margaret Pokiak-Fenton, Christy Jordan-Fenton, and Gabrielle Grimard
Butterfly Yellow by Thanhha Lai
We Are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom and Michaela Goade
Winterkeep by Kristin Cashore (and Bitterblue!)
Your Name is a Song by Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow
Darius the Great is Not Okay by Adib Khorram (and Darius the Great Deserves Better!)
Fry Bread by Kevin Noble Maillard and Juana Martinez-Neal
Daughters of Jubilation by Kara Lee Corthron
A Different Pond by Bao Phi and Thi Bui
Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Hannah and Kelly talk about YA books that have been reissued, modernized, or turned into graphic novels and highlight great writing guides by YA authors.
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SHOW NOTES
Finding My Voice by Marie Myung-Ok Lee
Judy Blume (including Forever)
Graceling by Kristin Cashore
Finnikin of the Rock by Melina Marchetta
Winterkeep by Kristin Cashore
Graceling: The Graphic Novel by Kristin Cashore and Gareth Hinds
Speak: The Graphic Novel by Laurie Halse Anderson and Emily Carroll
Monster by Walter Dean Myers
News about Monster coming to Netflix
Monster: The Graphic Novel by Walter Dean Myers, Guy A. Sims, and Dawud Anyabwile
Be More Chill: The Graphic Novel by Ned Vizzini, David Levithan, and Nick Bertozzi
Long Way Down: The Graphic Novel by Jason Reynolds and Danica Novgorodoff
Sloppy Firsts by Megan McCafferty
Hey YA: Extra Credit episode with Kristina Forest about Sloppy Firsts
The Lottery: The Graphic Novel by Shirley Jackson and Miles Hyman
Kelly’s School Library Journal piece on teen writing guides
Just Write! Here’s How by Walter Dean Myers
Dear Ally by Ally Carter
Courageous Creativity by Sara Zarr
Write Yourself a Lantern by Elizabeth Acevedo
Foreshadow by Emily XR Pan and Nova Ren Suma
Paper Hearts by Beth Revis
Find Your Voice by Angie Thomas See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Kelly and guest Crystal Maldonado talk about the 2007 YA book My Big Fat Manifesto by Susan Vaught and how FAT isn’t a bad word.
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SHOW NOTES
Fat Chance, Charlie Vega by Crystal Maldonado
My Big Fat Manifesto by Susan Vaught
“Headless Fatties” by Dr. Charlotte Cooper
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Kelly and Hannah take a deep dive into YA nonfiction and YA books in translation, two categories deserving of more love and attention.
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SHOW NOTES
SET (the game)
“The Five Types of Nonfiction” by Melissa Stewart
All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson
Say Her Name by Zetta Elliott
Not Funny Ha-Ha by Leah Hayes
Almost American Girl by Robin Ha
The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees by Don Brown
Fever Year: The Killer Flu of 1918 by Don Brown
The Rise and Fall of Charles Lindberg by Candice Fleming
All Thirteen by Christina Soontornvat
Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop: A History of The Hip Hop Generation (Young Reader Edition) by Jeff Chang
Girlhood: Teens Around The World in Their Own Words by Masuma Ahuja
Everything You Wanted To Know About Indians But Were Afraid To Ask Young Reader Edition by Anton Treur
The Batchelder Award
The Global Literature in Libraries Initiative
B, book, and me by Kim Sagwa, translated by Sunhee Jeong
Here the Whole Time by Vitor Martins, translated by Larissa Helena
Kiffe, Kiffe Tomorrow by Faiza Guene, translated by Sarah Adams
Where We Go from Here by Lucas Rocha, also translated by Larissa Helena
I Love, I Hate, I Miss My Sister by Amelie Sarn, translated by Y. Maudet
Aya series by Marguerite Abouet and Clement Oubrerie
The Immortal Boy by Francisco Montaña Ibáñez, translated by David Bowles
The Librarian of Auschwitz by Antonio Iturbe See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Kelly highlights five excellent award-winning YA authors and the backlist titles of theirs you shouldn’t miss.
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SHOW NOTES
Bone Gap by Laura Ruby
Bad Apple by Laura Ruby
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
The Boy in the Black Suit by Jason Reynolds
Yaqui Delgado Wants To Kick Your Ass by Meg Medina
Burn Baby Burn by Meg Medina
The Girl Who Could Silence The Wind by Meg Medina
brown girl dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
Hush by Jacqueline Woodson
A Heart in a Body in the World by Deb Caletti
The Queen of Everything by Deb Caletti See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Kelly and Hannah answer listener requests for book recommendations.
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SHOW NOTES
Short story collection. Preferably fiction and/or fun/uplifting
Meet Cute: Some People Are Destined to Meet; Tales from the Inner City by Shaun Tan; Take the Mic edited by Bethany C. Morrow; Snow in Love; Hope Nation edited by Rose Brock; The Radical Element edited by Jessica Spotswood.
A gift for my brother who isn’t a big reader. He’s in college, loves soccer and video games, and hasn’t enjoyed a book since reading Holes in middle school.
Don’t Read the Comments by Eric Smith; Slay by Brittany Morris; The Pros of Cons by Alison Cherry; Booked by Kwame Alexander; Furia by Yamile Saied Mendez; Warcross by Marie Lu; Feed by MT Anderson.
New, contemporary, socially conscious, diverse.
Yes No Maybe So by Aisha Saeed and Becky Albertalli; The Voting Booth by Brandy Colbert; Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi and Yusuf Salaam; Running by Natalia Sylvester; We Didn’t Ask For This by Adi Alsaid; Dear Justyce by Nic Stone.
Diverse body positive books.
What I Like About Me by Jenna Guillaume; Melt My Heart by Bethany Rutter; My Eyes Are Up Here by Laura Zimmermann; Gabi, a Girl in Pieces by Isabel Quintero; If It Makes You Happy by Claire Kann; Body Talk: 37 Voices Explore Our Radical Anatomy edited by Kelly Jensen.
YA dealing with survivors of sexual abuse/pedophilia/other childhood trauma: some of my favorites that I’ve read are Sadie, Girl in Pieces, Suicide Notes from Beautiful Girls, Perks of Being a Wallflower and Speak.
Grown by Tiffany D. Jackson; Blood Water Paint by Joy McCullough; The Way I Used to Be by Amber Smith; Charm & Strange by Stephanie Kuehn; How Dare the Sun Rise by Sandra Uwiringyimana; Wrecked by Maria Padian; Infandous by Elana K. Arnold; In The Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado.
A YA book to get my friend who doesn’t really read….p.s. she really likes Disney.
Disney’s Twisted Tales; Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige; Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo; Under a Painted Sky by Stacey Lee.
One of my high school students likes mysteries and fantasy novels, but doesn’t like any “kissing” (i.e. lots of romance or a focus on a relationship). What suggestions could I give her?
Goldie Vance: The Hotel Whodunit by Lilliam Rivera; Endangered by Lamar Giles; Jennifer Lynn Barnes; Karen M. McManus; Complicit by Stephanie Kuehn.
A book for my 16 year old nephew who is a very particular reader. Used to love Rick Riordan but has moved on. Beyond Riordan, the only books I’ve sent him that he has actually called begging for the sequels is Scythe. He likes Agatha Christie “because it makes him think” (to figure out what is going on). I’ve tried AS King and Going Bovine, but have not gotten a reaction and all the fantasy tried and trues. Would love an idea from you!
Bitterblue by Kristin Cashore; The Future will be BS-free by Will McIntosh; The Lines We Cross by Randa Abdel-Fattah; Warcross and Legend by Marie Lu.
A contemporary with some magic and some romance, but the story does not center grief.
Now and When by Sara Bennett Wealer; Displacement by Kiku Hughes; Lobizona by Romina Garber.
I am looking for a fantasy novel with romance that ideally is part of an almost finished or finished series. I have already read many of the popular ones, so I guess I am looking for those that were a bit more under the radar. I have read/started the Folk of the Air Series, A Court of Thorns and Roses Series, Red Queen Series, all of Cassandra Clare, etc. and loved them all! Looking for something in that realm.
Blythewood by Carol Goodman; Lost Voices by Sarah Porter; The Madman’s Daughter by Megan Shepherd; Brooklyn Brujas by Zoraida Cordova.
Warm fuzzy story about family (chosen, biological, adopted, whatever) with winter holiday(s) (not necessarily Christmas, but Christmas ok) as a backdrop and a happy ending.
Something wintery and hopeful. (At least something that leaves the reader with some hope.) I like a variety of things. Some writers whose work I’ve enjoyed: Katie Henry, Karen McManus, Tomi Adeyemi, Jenny Han, Nina LaCour, and too many names to list. A few books I’ve read and enjoyed because of this podcast: Agnes at the End of the World, We Are the Perfect Girl, and Orpheus Girl.
10 Blind Dates by Ashley Elston; The Kid Table by Andrea Seigel; The Chaos of Standing Still by Jessica Brody.
A feminist book like Rules for Being a Girl.
Girls Like Us by Randi Pink; The Degenerates by J. Albert Mann; Burn Baby Burn by Meg Medina; Watch Us Rise by Renee Watson and Ellen Hagan.
Books for a 13 year-old. She loves the Shadowhunter Chronicles by Cassandra Clare and anything written by Rick Riordan. Recently, I loaned her my copy of With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo (one of my favorite YA authors ever) and she loved it. I’d really like to give her books in a genre she loves and one that will expand her reading material.
Finding Yvonne by Brandy Colbert; New Kid/Class Act by Jerry Craft; Inventing Victoria by Tonya Bolden; Akata Witch/Akata Warrior by Nnedi Okorafor.
Something that will make me laugh, but also teach me something.
The Go-Between by Veronica Chambers; Cherry by Lindsey Rosin; Unpregnant by Jenni Hendriks and Ted Caplan; We Are The Perfect Girl by Ariel Kaplan.
I’m looking for at book for my niece (18 years old). She is not an avid reader out side required reading in school. She’s not that into fantasy and Sci fi, she likes contemporary fiction better. She might like a short story collection because 40 pages is not as daunting as 350 pages (or more if it’s a series) for a story. Books she had liked recently: They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera and Broken Things by Lauren Oliver.
Try Margarita Engle, Nikki Grimes, Stephanie Hemphill, Kwame Alexander as an alternative to short stories but still with a lot of white space, as it may be less intimidating; Toil and Trouble edited by Jessica Spotswood and Tess Sharpe; Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo.
I’m interested in spooky tales, thrillers, science fiction, and non-WWII fiction. No dystopias or urban fantasy, please! The most important thing to me as an aromantic asexual person is that’s there’s no significant romantic element. I don’t want the main character to have any romantic partners or to spend several pages daydreaming about their crush(es). Thanks!
Pan’s Labyrinth by Guillermo del Toro and Cornelia Funke; Dread Nation by Justina Ireland; Dreamland Burning by Jennifer Latham; The Blood Confession by Alisa M. Libby; The Girl From The Well by Rin Chupecho; Jackaby by William Ritter; Watch Over Me by Nina LaCour.
A book for my 19 year old sister who loves Wilder Girls and The Poet X. She is a fan of feminism, horror, and queerness in books.
The Cure for Dreaming by Cat Winters; Mary’s Monster by Lita Judge; The Good Luck Girls by Charlotte Nicole Davis; Furia by Yamile Saied Mendez; We Are The Wildcats by Siobhan Vivian; The Stars and the Blackness Between Them by Junauda Petrus.
A book for my daughter. She recently told me that she is gay. I want to show her how much I love her and accept her. She loves graphic novels and has read many of the most popular ones featuring same sex relationships.
Everything Noelle Stevenson! Lumberjanes, Nimona, The Fire Never Goes Out; Queer: A Graphic History by Meg John Barker and Julia Scheele; Skim by Mariko Tamaki; Mooncakes by Suzanne Walker and Wendy Xu; Kiss Number 8 by Colleen AF Venable and Ellen T. Crenshaw; Moonstruck by Grace Ellis and Shae Bragl.
Something heavily folklore-based (Maggie Stiefvater or higher level of “heavily”) and LGBTQ+ please? European and Asian folklore are my favorite but I’ll be happy to dive into any other as well.
Anna-Marie McLemore; A Thousand Beginnings and Endings edited by Elsie Chapman and Ellen Oh; Wicked As You Wish by Rin Chupeco; A Curse of Roses by Diana Pinguicha; Forest of a Thousand Lanterns by Julie C. Dao; Girl, Serpent, Thorn by Melissa Bashardost.
A fantasy or science fiction novel, preferably action-packed.
Etiquette and Espionage by Gail Carriger; The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline; Cut Off by Adrianne Finley; Orleans by Sherri L. Smith.
An awesome ghost story.
The Girl from the Well by Rin Chupeco; Wait Till Helen Comes by Mary Downing Hahn; Horrid by Katrina Leno; The Tenth Girl by Sara Faring; Watch Over Me by Nina LaCour; Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All by Laura Ruby; Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas.
School for Good & Evil read-alikes for 14-year-old reluctant reader. Thanks!
Carry On by Rainbow Rowell; The Irregular at Magic High School manga series by Tsutomu Sato; The Black Mage by Daniel Howard Barnes; Supermutant Magic Academy by Jillian Tamaki; A Blade so Black by LL McKinney; Spin the Dawn by Elizabeth Lim; Liz Braswell’s Twisted Fairy Tales series; Melissa Albert’s The Hazel Wood.
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In her first solo Extra Credit episode, Hannah tries not to get too mired in despair and instead focuses on the lessons she learned from Mark Bray on antifascism.
This episode is sponsored by Kingdom of Sea and Stone by Mara Rutherford, published by Inkyard Press.
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Show Notes
Antifa: The Antifascist Handbook by Mark Bray
Anger is a Gift by Mark Oshiro
The Big Lie by Julie Mayhew
The Fever King by Victoria Lee
The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf by Ambelin Kwaymullina
Orphan Monster Spy by Matt Killeen
The Fountains of Silence by Ruta Sepetys
Kent State by Deborah Wiles
Say Her Name by Zetta Elliott, illustrated by Loveis Wise
This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work by Tiffany Jewell, illustrated by Aurelia Durand
Woke: A Young Poet’s Call to Justice by Mahogany Browne, illustrated by Theodore Taylor III
Find Sarah Hannah Gómez on Twitter or Instagram (twice!). See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Hannah and Kelly record a podcast during the longest week ever and talk about under the radar 2020 reads and books they plan to read before the year ends.
This episode is sponsored by TBR, Book Riot’s subscription service offering reading recommendations personalized to your reading life; Instant Karma by Marissa Meyer with Fierce Reads; and Kingdom of Sea and Stone by Mara Rutherford, published by Inkyard Press.
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SHOW NOTES
The Kingdom of Back by Marie Lu
Turtle Under Ice by Juleah del Rosario
Not So Pure and Simple by Lamar Giles
How To Build a Heart by Maria Padian
Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo
Dark Matter of Mona Starr by Laura Lee Gulledge
Grown by Tiffany D. Jackson
Charming As a Verb by Ben Phillippe
A Breath Too Late by Rocky Callan
Luck of the Titanic by Stacey Lee
Dragonhoops by Gene Luen Yang
Home is Not a Country by Safia Elhillo
All The Things We Never Knew by Liara Tamani
Tokyo Ever After by Emiko Jean
The Snow Fell Three Graves Deep by Allan Wolf
Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley
Thoughts and Prayers by Bryan Bliss
She’s Too Pretty to Burn by Wendy Heard
Aftershocks by Marisa Reichardt
Juliet Takes a Breath: The Graphic Novel by Gabby Rivera and Celia Moscote See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Hannah and special guest Tim Milner reminisce about high school together and talk becoming YA readers a little late in life and becoming teachers after brief forays into other careers. Tim is a bit lacking in his TBR and needs your book recommendations!
This episode is sponsored by Smash It! by Francina Simone, published by Inkyard Press
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Show Notes
Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me by Mariko Tamaki
Bingo Love by Tee Franklin
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Bone Black by bell hooks
Exit, Pursued By a Bear by E.K. Johnston
Turtles All the Way Down by John Green
Hot Dog Girl by Jennifer Dugan
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From great new books to favorite classic reads, from news to the latest in on-screen adaptations, the Hey YA podcast is here to elevate the exciting world of young adult lit. Join hosts Kelly Jensen and Sarah Hannah Gómez on Wednesdays for recommendations, news, and lots of discussion about all things YA! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Kelly and Hannah take a look at the settings present and absent in YA books and what they wish they saw more commonly, then highlight YA set in the rural US and across the globe.
This episode is sponsored by TBR, Book Riot’s subscription service offering reading recommendations personalized to your reading life; Instant Karma by Marissa Meyer with Fierce Reads; and Smash It! by Francina Simone, published by Inkyard Press.
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SHOW NOTES
A Heart In a Body In The World by Deb Caletti
Pointe by Brandy Colbert
The Memory of Light by Francisco X. Stork
Piecing Me Together by Renée Watson
The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
The Lord of Opium by Nancy Farmer
Journey of Dreams by Marge Pellegrino
Sia Martinez and the Moonlit Beginning of Everything by Raquel Vazquez Gilliland
Disappeared by Francisco X. Stork
The Whippoorwill Award
The Worlds of Words Collection
Like Water by Rebecca Podos
When the Ground is Hard by Malla Nunn
Rural Voices:15 Authors Challenge Assumptions About Small Town America edited by Nora Shalaway Carpenter
Out of Shadows by Jason Wallace
Our Wayward Fate by Gloria Chao
Never Fall Down by Patricia McCormick and Arn Chorn Pond
You Should See Me In a Crown by Leah Johnson
All That I Can Fix by Crystal Chan
Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor
After The Fall by Kate Hart
Dear Haiti, Love Alaine by Maika Moulite and Maritza Moulite
Learning To Breathe by Janice Lynn Mather
You Must Be Layla by Yassmin Abdel-Magied
Scowler by Daniel Kraus
Bent Heavens by Daniel Kraus
Dare To Disappoint: Growing Up in Turkey by Ogze Salamaci See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Kelly dives into the wide world of YA ghost stories.
This episode is sponsored by Skyhunter by Marie Lu, with Fierce Reads.
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Show Notes
I Am Alfonso Jones by Tony Medina
We Speak in Storms by Natalie Lund
Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All by Laura Ruby
Watch Over Me by Nina LaCour
The Forgotten Girl by India Hill Brown
Scholastic animated horror series announcement
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Kelly and new Hey YA host Hannah talk about girls in sports and dig into great stand-alone YA science fiction and fantasy books.
This episode is sponsored by Book Riot’s mystery thriller podcast, Read or Dead; Winter White and Wicked by Shannon Dittemore; and White Fox by Sara Faring, with Fierce Reads.
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SHOW NOTES
“Why We Need More YA Books About Girls Who Play Sports” by Bria Felicien at Teen Vogue.
YA Books About Sports
Breath Like Water by Anna Jarzab
Furia by Yamile Saied Mendez
See No Color by Shannon Gibney
A Season of Daring Greatly by Ellen Emerson White
Pitch TV series
The Knockout by Sajni Patel
Every Reason We Shouldn’t by Sara Fujimura
The Heartbeats of Wing Jones by Katherine Webber
Break The Fall by Jennifer Iacopelli
Bruised by Tanya Boteju
The Griefkeeper by Alex Villasante
Elatsoe by Darcy Little Badger, illustrated by Rovina Cai
Black Girl Unlimited by Echo Brown
Odd and True by Cat Winters
Each of Us a Desert by Mark Oshiro
Displacement by Kiku Hughes
Thirty Talks Weird Love by Alessandra Narvaez Varela
Blazewrath Games by Amparo Ortiz
Star Daughter by Shveta Thakrar
Hannah on Twitter and Instagram (times two!). See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Kelly and YA author Kristina Forest talk about Megan McCafferty’s Sloppy Firsts, digging into suburban angst, finding yourself, and Marcus Flutie.
This episode is sponsored by How to Do It Now by Leslie Josel from Lerner Books.
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Show Notes
I Wanna Be Where You Are by Kristina Forest
Now That I’ve Found You by Kristina Forest
Sloppy Firsts by Megan McCafferty
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Vanessa and Liberty are sitting in this week, talking about recent YA releases and which witchy YA reads they love, witch, er, which makes for a spellbinding new episode!
This episode is sponsored by TBR, Book Riot’s subscription service offering reading recommendations personalized to your reading life; Oni Lion Forge Publishing Group; and Macmillan Audio.
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SHOW NOTES
Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower by Tamsyn Muir
Surrender Your Sons by Adam Sass
A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik
Each of Us a Desert by Mark Oshiro
Crush (Crave 2) by Tracy Wolff
Dear Justyce by Nic Stone
Shine by Jessica Jung
When They Call You a Terrorist (Young Adult Edition): A Story of Black Lives Matter and the Power to Change the World by Benee Knauer, Patrisse Khan-Cullors
Thoughts & Prayers: A Novel in Three Parts by Bryan Bliss
The Silvered Serpents (The Gilded Wolves, 2) by Roshani Chokshi
Vampires Never Get Old: Tales with Fresh Bite by Zoraida Cordova and Natalie C. Parker
How It All Blew Up by Arvin Ahmadi
Every Body Looking by Candice Iloh
Smash It! by Francina Simone
I Hope You’re Listening by Tom Ryan
Yolk by Mary H.K. Choi
The Witches by Roald Dahl
The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
Witch by Christopher Pike
Black Body by H.C. Turk
The Witching Hour by Anne Rice
Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor
Labyrinth Lost (Brooklyn Brujas) by Zoraida Córdova
The Wicked Deep by Shea Ernshaw
The Bone Witch by Rin Chupeco
Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft by Tess Sharpe and Jessica Spotswood
The Babysitters Coven by Kate M. Williams
These Witches Don’t Burn by Isabel Sterling
Hex Hall by Rachel Hawkins
Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
When We Were Magic by Sarah Gailey
Undead Girl Gang by Lily Anderson
Mooncakes by Suzanne Walker and Wendy Xu
Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Special guest Jessica Pryde, of our When In Romance podcast, dives into Darius The Great Is Not OK by Adib Khorram.
This episode is sponsored by Tor Teen.
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Eric and Kelly come to you LIVE from YA-Hoo Fest!, talking great books for new YA readers and what they can’t wait to read this fall.
This episode is sponsored by TBR, Book Riot’s subscription service offering reading recommendations personalized to your reading life, My Riot by Rick Spears (Author) Emmett Helen (Illustrator) from Oni Lion Forge Publishing Group, and Dead Dudes by Christopher Sebela (Author) Ben Sears (Illustrator) from Oni Lion Forge Publishing Group.
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SHOW NOTES
Surrender Your Sons by Adam Sass
Who I Was With Her by Nita Tyndall
I Kissed Alice by Anna Birch
Nobody Knows But You by Anica Mrose Rissi
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness
Gabi, a Girl in Pieces by Isabel Quintero
Everything Everything by Nicola Yoon
Tigers, Not Daughters by Samantha Mabry
The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner
We Are The Ants by Shaun David Hutchinson
Want by Cindy Pon
13 Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All by Laura Ruby
Hero by Perry Moore
Little and Lion by Brandy Colbert
Ash by Malinda Lo
Among the Beasts & Briars by Ashley Poston
Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam
Blazewrath Games by Amparo Ortiz
Watch Over Me by Nina LaCour
A Cuban Girl’s Guide to Tea and Tomorrow by Laura Taylor Namey
Charming As a Verb by Ben Philippe
These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong
Furia by Yamile Saied Méndez
Rent a Boyfriend by Gloria Chao
Thoughts and Prayers by Bryan Bliss
White Fox by Sara Faring See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Special guest Jessica Pryde, of our When In Romance podcast, talks about her favorite YA retellings!
This episode is sponsored by Lerner Books.
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Books Discussed:
Pride by Ibi Zoboi
Heart of Iron and Soul of Stars by Ashley Poston
The Only Thing Worse than Me is You by Lily Anderson
Stone Field by Christy Lenzi
The Wrath and the Dawn and The Rose and the Dagger by Renee Ahdieh See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Eric and Kelly talk about YA where fandoms clash, followed by a recommendationpalooza of recent YA horror.
This episode is sponsored by TBR, Book Riot’s subscription service offering reading recommendations personalized to your reading life., Ever After by Olivia Vieweg, from Lerner Books, and Like Spilled Water by Jennie Liu from Lerner Books.
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SHOW NOTES
Everything, Everything by Nicole Yoon
More Than Maybe by Erin Hahn
I Kissed Alice by Anna Birch
Verona Comics by Jennifer Dugan
Geekerella by Ashley Poston
Starworld by Audrey Coulthurst and Paula Garner
The Geek’s Guide to Unrequited Love by Sarvenaz Tash
How To Say Goodbye in Robot by Natalie Standiford
Guy in Real Life by Steve Breznoff
Eliza and Her Monsters by Francesca Zappia
The Only Thing Worse Than Me Is You by Lily Anderson
The Improbable Theory of Ana and Zak by Brian Katcher
Queens of Geek by Jen Wilde
Don’t Read The Comments by Eric Smith
I Believe In a Thing Called Love by Maurene Goo
How To Repair a Mechanical Heart by JC Lillis
Clown in a Cornfield by Adam Cesare
A Werewolf in Riverdale by Caleb Roehrig
Interview with the Vixen by Rebecca Barrow
Wayward Witch by Zoraida Corvoda
Harrow Lake by Kat Ellis
Category 5 by Ann Dávila Cardinal
Blood Countess by Lana Popović
Bent Heavens by Daniel Kraus
Surrender Your Sons by Adam Sass
Vampires Never Get Old edited by Natalie C. Parker and Zoraida Cordova See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Eric is joined by Aiden Thomas, author of the highly anticipated debut novel Cemetery Boys, to talk favorite backlist titles and bad reading location decisions.
This episode is sponsored by Now That I’ve Found You by Kristina Forest, with Fierce Reads.
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SHOW NOTES
Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake
Give the Dark My Love by Beth Revis
When the Moon Was Ours by Anna Marie-McClemore
Relativity by Cristin Bishara See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Eric and Kelly talk YA romance you may have missed this year and take a deep dive into what IP work is and why it’s likely you love it.
This episode is sponsored by TBR, Book Riot’s subscription service offering reading recommendations personalized to your reading life; Amulet Books and Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko; and Skyhunter by Marie Lu.
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SHOW NOTES
Girl, Unframed by Deb Caletti
Body Talk: 37 Voices Explore Our Radical Anatomy edited by Kelly Jensen
Vanessa Yu’s Magical Paris Tea Shop by Roselle Lim
Agnes at the End of the World by Kelly McWilliams
Love Creekwood by Becky Albertalli
I Kissed Alice by Anna Birch
I’ll Be The One by Lyla Lee
The Falling in Love Montage by Ciara Smyth
More Than Just a Pretty Face by Syed M. Masood
Four Days of You and Me by Miranda Kenneally
Late To The Party by Kelly Quindlin
Now That I’ve Found You by Kristina Forest
A Cuban Girl’s Guide to Tea and Tomorrow by Laura Taylor Namey
Salty, Bitter, Sweet by Mayra Cuevas
The Geek’s Guide to Dating by Eric Smith by Eric Smith
Geekerella by Ashley Poston
Avatar: Kyoshi by FC Yee
Sarah Enni’s “First Draft” podcast episode on her IP work. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Kelly and guest host Carmen of @TomesandTextiles offer up a pile of incredible Latinx backlist YA books for your reading needs.
This episode is sponsored by Random House Books for Young Readers and GetUnderlined.com.
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SHOW NOTES
Don’t Date Rosa Santos by Nina Moreno
The Memory of Light by Francisco X. Stork
Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Córdova (“Brooklyn Brujas” series)
When Reason Breaks by Cindy L. Rodriguez
When We Left Cuba by Chanel Cleeton
Fifteen Candles by Veronica Chambers (“Amigas” series, book one)
The Go-Between by Veronica Chambers
The Closest I’ve Come by Fred Aceves
The Girl Who Could Silence the Wind by Meg Medina
Gabi, A Girl in Pieces by Isabel Quintero
The Devil and Winnie Flynn by Micol Ostow
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sanchez
A Fierce and Subtle Poison by Samantha Mabry
The Education of Margot Sanchez by Lilliam Rivera
Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera
Wild Beauty by Anna-Marie McLemore See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Eric and Kelly take a deep dive into YA books that feature protests, as well as YA books with extensive casts.
This episode is sponsored by Read or Dead, Book Riot’s mystery/thriller podcast; TBR, Book Riot’s subscription service offering reading recommendations personalized to your reading life; and Flatiron Books, publishers of Court of Lions by Somaiya Daud.
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SHOW NOTES
Agnes at the End of the World by Kelly McWilliams
Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
For The Win by Cory Doctorow
Anger Is a Gift by Mark Oshiro
I Am Alfonso Jones by Tony Medina
Running by Natalia Sylvester
Audacity by Melanie Crowder
This Side of Home by Renée Watson
Girls Resist: A Guide to Activism, Leadership, and Starting a Revolution! By Kaelyn Rich
Hope Nation edited by Rose Brock
A Heart In a Body in the World by Deb Caletti
We Didn’t Ask for This by Adi Alsaid
March by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell
Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu
Feminism for the Real World edited by Kelly Jensen
Kid Activists by Robin Stevenson
We Are The Wildcats by Siobhan Vivian
The Kid Table by Andrea Seigel
How It Went Down by Kekla Magoon
Light It Up by Kekla Magoon
All Your Twisted Secrets by Diana Urban
The Watch That Ends the Night by Allan Wolf
The Snow Fell Three Graves Deep by Allan Wolf
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
Seven Ways We Lie by Riley Redgate
Loveboat, Taipei by Abigail Hing Wen
10 Blind Dates by Ashley Elston
All of This is True by Lygia Day Peñaflor See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
As a special bonus for Hey YA listeners, please enjoy this ode to Meg Medina from Get Booked’s Amanda Nelson.
This episode is sponsored by the Kids These Days Podcast.
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Eric and Kelly are back to talk about YA set in the ’90s and short YA reads for short attention spans.
This episode is sponsored by TBR, Book Riot’s subscription service offering Tailored Book Recommendations for readers of all stripes made by Book Riot, The Extraordinaries by TJ Klune, and Avatar, The Last Airbender: The Rise of Kyoshi.
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SHOW NOTES
My Eyes Are Up Here by Laura Zimmermann
Now That I’ve Found You
Agnes At The End of the World by Kelly McWilliams
Love, Victor
The Black Kids by Christina Hammonds Reed
Fireworks by Katie Cotugno
Who Put This Song On by Morgan Parker
Let Me Hear a Rhyme by Tiffany Jackson
Rebel Girls by Elizabeth Keenan
Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth
Those Who Prey by Jennifer Moffett
Way to Go by Tom Ryan
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Skyscraping by Cordelia Jensen
We Were Promised Spotlights by Lindsay Sproul
We Are Okay by Nina LaCour
I Felt a Funeral in my Brain by Will Walton
March: Book 1 by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell
Burn Out by Kristi Helvig
What Goes Up by Christine Heppermann
Wink Poppy Midnight by April Genevieve Tucholke
Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist
Dear Martin by Nic Stone See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jenn Northington of Get Booked and SFF Yeah fills in for Eric to talk about two must-read fantasy series!
This episode is sponsored by The Extraordinaries by TJ Klune.
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SHOW NOTES
The Rise of Kyoshi by F.C. Yee
The Mask of Shadows by Linsey Miller See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Kelly and special guest Amma Marfo talk about The Baby-Sitters Club on Netflix.
This episode is sponsored by TBR, Book Riot’s subscription service offering Tailored Book Recommendations for readers of all stripes made by Book Riot, Flatiron Books, publishers of Mirage by Somaiya Daud, and In the Neighborhood of True By Susan Kaplan Carlton, new from Algonquin Young Readers.
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Show Notes
Amma Marfo (The Interrobang, Twitter, Instagram)
“What Makes The Baby-Sitters Club Endure?”
“The Baby-Sitters Club” on Annotated
The New York Times review of “The Baby-Sitters Club”
Variety on “The Baby-Sitters Club” See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Eric is joined by Katie Cotugno, New York Times bestselling author of novels like 99 Days, and recently, Rules for Being a Girl with Candace Bushnell, to talk favorite backlist titles and what it’s like working with a legend.
This episode is sponsored by Humanity’s Gauntlet: The Archons Rise by Brian A. Sieteski.
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SHOW NOTES
99 Days, by Katie Cotugno
Fireworks, by Katie Cotugno
Rules for Being a Girl with Candace Bushnell
The Lightness of Hands, by Jeff Garvin
The New Guy, by Amy Spalding
Moxie, by Jennifer Mathieu
The Way You Make Me Feel, by Maureen Goo
I Believe In a Thing Called Love, by Maureen Goo
Broetry, by Brian McGackin
Grace and the Fever, by Zan Romanoff See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Eric and Kelly talk about YA books where the setting is almost a character in and of itself, as well as highlight their summer YA TBRs.
This episode is sponsored by TBR, Book Riot’s subscription service offering Tailored Book Recommendations for readers of all stripes made by Book Riot, A Song Below Water by Bethany C. Morrow, and Agnes At The End of the World by Kelly McWilliams.
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SHOW NOTES
Book Riot reader/listener survey
Timekeeper by Tara Sim
The Mall by Megan McCafferty
War and Speech by Don Zolidis
The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner
This Is All Your Fault by Aminah Mae Safi
The November Girl by Lydia Kang
Toxic by Lydia Kang
Start Here by Trish Doller
Wilder Girls by Rory Power
Wicked Saints by Emily Duncan
Crown of Feathers by Nicki Pau Preto
Spin the Dawn by Elizabeth Lim
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
Star Daughter by Shveta Thakrar
The Black Kids by Christina Hammonds Reed
Today Tonight Tomorrow by Rachel Lynn Solomon
My Eyes Are Up Here by Laura Zimmermann
Blood Moon by Lucy Cuthew
Heart of Iron by Ashley Poston
The Summer of Everything by Julian Winters
Finding My Voice by Marie Myung-Ok Lee See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Kelly and YA author Leah Johnson highlight excellent backlist queer YA books you should pick up ASAP.
This episode is sponsored by TBR: Book Riot’s service for Tailored Book Recommendations, now available as a gift!
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SHOW NOTES
You Should See Me In A Crown by Leah Johnson
If It Makes You Happy by Claire Kann
The Henna Wars by Adiba Jaigirdar
The Griefkeeper by Alexandra Villasante
The God Box by Alex Sanchez
This is Kind of an Epic Love Story by Kacen Callender
Like Water by Rebecca Podos
Little and Lion by Brandy Colbert
Black Girl Unlimited by Echo Brown
Ace of Spaces by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
Lizard Radio by Pat Schmatz See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Eric and Kelly dig into anti-racist YA books and then highlight YA books with food covers that make for delicious reading.
This episode is sponsored by TBR, Book Riot’s subscription service offering Tailored Book Recommendations for readers of all stripes made by Book Riot, the audiobook edition of A Song Below Water by Bethany C. Morrow, and Book Riot Insiders, the digital hangout sport for the Book Riot community.
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SHOW NOTES
It’s Kind of a Cheesy Love Story by Lauren Morrill
Ghosting by Sarvenaz Tash and Sarah Skilton
The Wild Remedy by Emma Mitchell
This Is My America by Kim Johnson
Stamped by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi
Into The Streets: A Young Person’s Visual History of Protest in the United States by Mark Bieschke
Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists: A Graphic History of Women’s Fight for Their Rights by Mikki Kendall and A. D’Amico
This Book Is Anti-Racist by Tiffany Jewell
Good Talk by Mira Jacob
The Hate U Give and Concrete Rose by Angie Thomas
All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely
How We Fight for Our Lives by Saeed Jones
Slay by Brittney Morris
Tyler Johnson Was Here by Jay Coles
Dear Martin by Nic Stone
Color Me In by Natasha Diaz
How It Went Down and Light It Up by Kekla Magoon
With The Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo
Stay Sweet by Siobhan Vivian
A La Carte by Tanita S. Davis
The Best Laid Plans by Cameron Lund
North of Happy by Adi Alsaid
The Art of French Kissing by Brianna R. Shrum
Love à la Mode by Stephanie Kate Strohm
Hungry Hearts: 13 Tales of Food & Love edited by Elsie Chapman and Caroline Tung Richmond
Love & Gelato by Jenna Evans Welch See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Kelly and YA author Lev Rosen talk about Far From You by Tess Sharpe and dive deep into queer characters who get to be messy.
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SHOW NOTES
Camp by LC Rosen
Jack of Hearts (And Other Parts) by LC Rosen
Far From You by Tess Sharpe
Surrender Your Sons by Adam Sass See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Eric and Kelly explore summer YA books, as well as highlight incredible new and upcoming queer YA books.
This episode is sponsored by TBR, Book Riot’s subscription service offering Tailored Book Recommendations for readers of all stripes made by Book Riot and Abrams, Mooncakes by Suzanne Walker and Illustrated by Wendy Xu , and Private Lessons by Cynthia Salaysay.
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Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins
It’s Kind of a Cheesy Love Story by Lauren Morrill
Grace and the Fever by Zan Romanoff
Again, Again by E. Lockhart
Forest of Souls by Lori M. Lee
“The Ultimate Guide to YA Short Stories”
In A Perfect World by Trish Doller
You Say It First by Katie Cotugno
My Summer of Love and Misfortune by Lindsay Wong
Girl Out of Water by Laura Silverman
Mariam Sharma Hits The Road by Sheba Karim
Wild Swans by Jessica Spotswood
“Rad Older Adults in YA”
Second Chance Summer by Emery Lord
Meet Me Here by Bryan Bliss
When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon
Summer Days and Summer Nights by Stephanie Perkins
Hot Dog Girl by Jennifer Dugan
Out Now edited by Saundra Mitchell
Camp by Lev Rosen
I Kissed Alice by Anna Birch
You Should See Me In A Crown by Leah Johnson
The State of Us by Shaun David Hutchinson
The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta
The Falling in Love Montage by Ciara Smyth
Felix Ever After by Kacen Callendar
All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Eric is joined by Middle Grade and Young Adult author Jamie Pacton, to talk about her recent release, The Life and (Medieval) Times of Kit Sweetly.
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SHOW NOTES
The Life and (Medieval) Times of Kit Sweetly, by Jamie Pacton
Ruthless Gods, by Emily A. Duncan
Wicked Saints, by Emily A. Duncan
Today Tonight Tomorrow, by Rachel Lynn Solomon
Tigers Not Daughters, by Samantha Mabry
Queens of Geek, by Jen Wilde
The Disenchantments, by Nina LaCour
The Disasters, by M.K. England
The Improbable Theory of Ana and Zak, by Brian Katcher
The Exact Opposite of Okay, by Laura Steven See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Eric and Kelly discuss the problematic idea of “boy books,” highlight recent YA with male leads, and dream up surprise books from favorite authors.
This episode is sponsored by Lit Stitch: 25 Cross-Stitch Patterns for Book Lovers made by Book Riot and Abrams, TBR, Book Riot’s subscription service offering Tailored Book Recommendations for readers of all stripes, and The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea by Maggie Tokuda-Hall from Candlewick Press.
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YA-Hoo fest
Shuri by Nic Stone
The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang
Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me by Mariko Tamaki
Bloom by Kevin Panetta
Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
The Gravity of Us by Phil Stamper
American Road Trip by Patrick Flores-Scott
Yes No Maybe So by Becky Albertalli and Aisha Saeed
The Gospel of Winter by Brendan Kiely
Dear Justyce by Nic Stone
Goodbye Days by Jeff Zentner
Field Guide to the North American Teenager by Ben Phillippe
Hold Me Closer Necromancer by Lish McBride
Not So Pure and Simple by Lamar Giles
Deposing Nathan by Zach Smedley
Camp by LC Rosen
A Peculiar Peril by Jeff VanderMeer
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
Looking for Alaska by John Green
Charm and Strange by Stephanie Kuehn
Hero by Perry Moore
Rotters by Daniel Kraus
Midnight Sun by Stephenie Meyer
A Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins
The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han
Talker 25 by Joshua McCune
Bumped by Megan McCafferty
September Girls by Bennett Madison
A Room Away From The Wolves by Nova Ren Suma See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Eric is joined by Jordyn Taylor, author of forthcoming The Paper Girl of Paris, to talk about World War II YA novels, her debut novel, and two of their favorite backlist picks.
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SHOW NOTES
The Paper Girl of Paris by Jordyn Taylor
Between Shades of Gray, by Ruta Sepetys
Salt to the Sea, by Ruta Sepetys
Prisoner of Night and Fog, by Anne Blankman
Traitor Angels, by Anne Blankman
Code Name Verity, by Elizabeth Wein
Mare’s War, by Tanita S. Davis
Turtle All the Way Down, by John Green See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Eric and Kelly talk about YA Star Wars books and feel-good YA books.
This episode is sponsored by TBR, Book Riot’s subscription service offering Tailored Book Recommendations for readers of all stripes, Sword In The Stars: A Once & Future Novel - by Cori McCarthy and Amy Rose Capetta, and Book Riot Insiders, the digital hangout spot for the Book Riot community.
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SHOW NOTES
Ruthless Gods by Emily A. Duncan
The Lightness of Hands by Jeff Garvin
The Fire Never Goes Out by Noelle Stevenson
War and Speech by Don Zolidis
Parachutes by Kelly Yang
All Boys Aren't Blue by George M. Johnson
Stamped by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi
A Crash of Fate by Zoraida Cordova
Black Spire by Deliliah S. Dawson
Ahsoka by E.K. Johnston
The Queen's Shadow by E.K. Johnston
Rebel Rising by Beth Revis
From a Certain Point of View Anthology
"Project Lumos"
Who In The World Is Carmen Sandiego by Rebecca Tinker
Waking The Witch: Reflections on Women, Magic, and Power by Pam Grossman
Stranger Things: Runaway Max by Brenna Yovanoff
Riverdale: The Day Before by Micol Ostow
A Werewolf in Riverdale by Caleb Roehrig
When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon
I'm Not Your Manic Pixie Dream Girl by Gretchen McNeil
We Dream of Space by Erin Entrada Kelly
My So-Called Bollywood Life by Nisha Sharma
Sloppy Firsts by Megan McCafferty
The Trouble with Destiny by Lauren Morrill
The New Guy by Amy Spalding
Red White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
Talk Nerdy To Me by Tiffany Schmidt
Let’s Talk About Love by Claire Kann See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Kelly recommends three must-read backlist female-led YA titles that are laugh-out-loud funny.
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Noteworthy by Riley Redgate
The Truth Commission by Susan Juby
The Way You Make Me Feel by Maurene Goo
We Are The Perfect Girl by Ariel Kaplan See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Eric and Kelly talk about YA takes on Shakespeare, as well as offer up some great sports books for YA readers.
This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, the digital hangout spot ffor the Book Riot community, Flatiron Books, publishers of The Night Country by Melissa Albert, and Conventionally Yours by Annabeth Albert.
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SHOW NOTES
Note: audio quality isn't what it tends to be because of an unidentified issue on Kelly's end.
Verona Comics by Jennifer Dugan
When You Were Everything by Ashley Woodfolk
Wicked Saints by Emily Duncan
Ruthless Gods by Emily Duncan
Body Talk: 37 Voices Explore Our Radical Anatomy edited by Kelly Jensen
Tigers, Not Daughters by Samantha Mabry
The Only Thing Worse Than Me Is You by Lily Anderson
Exit, Pursued By A Bear by EK Johnston
As I Descended by Robin Talley
Foul is Fair by Hannah Capin
If You Come Softly by Jacqueline Woodson
Speak Easy Speak Love by McKelle George
Falling for Hamlet by Michelle Ray
If I’m Being Honest by Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegmund-Broka
We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry
Miranda Kenneally books
Zeroboxer by Fonda Lee
We Are The Wildcats by Siobhan Vivian
Shut Out by Kody Keplinger
Break The Fall by Jennifer Iacopelli
"More Gymnastics Books, Please!"
A Short History of the Girl Next Door by Jared Reck
Here To Stay by Sara Farizan
Gravity by Sarah Deming
Running With Lions by Julian Winters See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Kelly and Samantha Mabry talk about the weird, wonderful, and highly-discussable book THE MOTH DIARIES by Rachel Klein
This episode is sponsored by Goldie Vance: The Hotel Whodunit by Lilliam Rivera.
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SHOW NOTES
Tigers, Not Daughters by Samantha Mabry
The Moth Diaries by Rachel Klein
All Our Pretty Songs by Sarah McCarry
The Smaller Evil by Stephanie Kuehn See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Eric and Kelly talk about reading they are -- and aren't -- doing during quarantine and share some recent and soon-to-release YA debuts.
This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, the digital hangout spot ffor the Book Riot community, Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi from NOVL, and Tigers, Not Daughters by Samantha Mabry from Algonquin Young Readers.
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SHOW NOTES
Everything Everything by Nicola Yoon
It's Kind of a Cheesy Love Story by Lauren Morrill
We Are The Wildcats by Siobhan Vivian
The Lucky Ones by Liz Lawson
Salty, Bitter, Sweet by Mayra Cuevas
What I Like About You by Marisa Kanter
You Should See Me In A Crown by Leah Johnson
The Life and (Medieval) Times of Kit Sweetly by Jamie Pacton
Unscripted by Nicole Kronzer
The Edge of Anything by Nora Shalaway Carpenter
Rural Voices edited by Nora Shalaway Carpenter See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Eric is joined by Claribel Ortega, author of forthcoming Ghost Squad, to talk about ghosts in YA, podcasting, and some favorite backlist titles from ten (or a million) years ago.
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SHOW NOTES
Ghost Squad, by Claribel Ortega
Wicked Fox, by Kat Cho
Howl’s Moving Castle, by Diana Wynne Jones
The Epic Crush of Genie Lo, by F.C. Yee
White Cat by Holly Black
Anna Dressed in Blood, by Kendare Blake
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, by Ransom Riggs
Now Entering Addamsville, by Francesca Zappia
Shutter, by Courtney Alameda See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Eric and special guest Tirzah Price talk about music and pop culture in YA, and daydream about fictional bands.
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SHOW NOTES
Damsel by Elana K. Arnold
The Oracle Code by Marieke Nijkamp
Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me by Mariko Tamaki
Red Hood by Elana K. Arnold
Dark and Deepest Red by Anna-Marie McLemore
Mooncakes by Suzanne Walker and Wendy Xu
Ziggy Stardust and Me by James Brandon
I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone by Stephanie Kuehnert
Our Stories, Our Voices by Amy Reed
Three Day Summer by Sarvanaz Tash
Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu
So Punk Rock: And Other Ways to Disappoint Your Mother by Micol Ostow
Family by Micol Ostow
Calvin by Martine Leavitt
Pulp by Robin Talley
The Babysitter’s Coven by Kate Williams
The Night We Said Yes by Lauren Gibaldi
Autofocus by Lauren Gibaldi
This Tiny Perfect World by Lauren Gibaldi
You’d Be Mine by Erin Hahn
Who’s That Girl by Blair Thornburgh
Audrey, Wait! By Robin Benway See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Eric is joined by Shveta Thakrar, author of Star Daughter, to talk about two of their favorite backlist titles that you should be reading… and a few more.
This episode is sponsored by NOVL.
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SHOW NOTES
Star Daughter by Shveta Thakrar
The Vigilante Poets of Selwyn Academy by Kate Hattemer
The Feminist Agenda of Jemima Kincaid by Kate Hattemer
Vengeance Road by Erin Bowman
Taken by Erin Bowman
Contagion by Erin Bowman
When the Moon Was Ours by Anna Marie McLemore
Born Confused by Tanuja Desai Hidier
A Song Below Water by Bethany C. Morrow
Gunslinger Girl by Lyndsay Ely
Walk on Earth a Stranger by Rae Carson See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Eric and Kelly come to you live, highlighting a ton of upcoming YA books, as well as audience recommended reads.
This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, Tor Teen, and Flatiron Books, publisher of Anna K by Jenny Lee.
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SHOW NOTES
Big thank you to The Book Stall in Winnetka, Illinois, for hosting us!
We Are The Wildcats by Siobhan Vivian
Damsel by Elana K. Arnold
Almost American Girl by Robin Ha
We Didn’t Ask For This by Adi Alsaid
War and Speech by Don Zolidis
Fell of Dark by Caleb Roehrig
Followers by Raziel Reid
Deepfake by Sarah Darer Littman
Smash It! by Francina Simone
Burn Our Bodies Down by Rory Power
My Eyes Are Up Here by Laura Zimmerman
Again Again by E. Lockhart
Undead Girl Gang by Lily Anderson
Bent Heavens by Daniel Kraus
The Toll by Neal Shusterman
Dark and Deepest Red by Anna-Marie McLemore
When The Stars Lead To You by Ronni Davis See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Kelly recommends three must-read backlist YA titles for Black History Month.
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SHOW NOTES
Monster by Walter Dean Myers
Ordinary Hazards by Nikki Grimes
The Truth of Right Now by Kara Lee Corthron See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Eric and Kelly talk about P.S., I Still Love You, swoony fathers in YA, and what YA rom-coms they’re itching for in 2020.
This episode is sponsored by Book Riot’s Read Harder 2020 Challenge, Wednesday Books, and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
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SHOW NOTES
Don’t forget to see us live at The Book Stall in Winnetka, Illinois, on February 25 at 6:30!
Be Not Far From Me by Mindy McGinnis
Not So Pure and Simple by Lamar Giles
King of the Dragonflies by Kacen Callendar
P.S., I Still Love You on Netflix!
The Summer of Everything by Julian Winters
Music From Another World by Robin Talley
Yes No Maybe So by Becky Albertalli and Aisha Saeed
Tweet Cute by Emma Lord
Only Mostly Devastated by Sophie Gonzales
Ten Things I Hate About Pinky by Sandhya Menon
I’ll Be The One by Lyla Lee
Rent a Boyfriend by Gloria Chao
I Kissed Alice by Anna Birch
Verona Comics by Jennifer Dugan See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Kelly and New York Times bestselling author Siobhan Vivian talk about SHUG, Jenny Han’s debut novel.
This episode is sponsored by b, Book, and Me by Kim Sagwaa, translated by Sunhee Jeong.
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SHOW NOTES
We Are The Wildcats by Siobhan Vivian
The List by Siobhan Vivian
Shug by Jenny Han
To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Eric and Kelly talk about this year’s winners of the Youth Media Awards and highlight great YA by Black authors coming soon.
This episode is sponsored by The Handsell, Echoes Between Us by Katie McGarry, and Scammed by Kristen Simmons.
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SHOW NOTES
Don’t Read The Comments by Eric Smith
Heretics Anonymous by Katie Henry
One Of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus
Ghost Squad by Claribel Ortega
2020 Youth Media Awards
The New Kid by Jerry Craft
Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga
Ordinary Hazards by Nikki Grimes
Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me by Mariko Tamaki
Field Guide to the North American Teen by Ben Phillippe
That Dedication
Free Lunch by Rex Ogle
Amelia Bloomer/RISE Project
Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All by Laura Ruby
With The Fire On High by Elizabeth Acevedo
All American Muslim Girl by Nadine Jolie Courtney
Rebel Girls by Elizabeth Keenan
The Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali by Sabina Kahn
The Grace Year by Kim Liggett
Watch Us Rise by Renee Watson and Ellen Hagen
SHOUT by Laurie Halse Anderson
The Stars and the Blackness Between Them by Junauda Petrus
Genesis Begins Again by Alicia D. Williams
Cursed by Karol Ruth Silverstein
The Silence Between Us by Alison Gervais
The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta
Hearts Unbroken by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Red White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
Not So Pure and Simple by Lamar Giles
The Voting Booth by Brandy Colbert
The Only Black Girls in Town by Brandy Colbert
The Sound of Stars by Alechia Dow
All The Things We Never Knew by Liara Tamani
When You Were Everything by Ashley Woodfolk
We Used To Be Friends by Amy Spalding
You Should See Me In A Crown by Leah Johnson
A Phoenix First Must Burn by Patrice Caldwell See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Eric is joined by Farah Naz Rishi, author of I Hope You Get This Message to talk about two of their favorite backlist titles that you should be reading… and a few more.
This episode is sponsored by Book Riot’s newest podcast, Novel Gazing.
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SHOW NOTES
I Hope You Get This Message by Farah Naz Rishi
Mirror in the Sky by Aditi Khorana
Library of Fates by Aditi Khorana
Want by Cindy Pon
The Bone Witch by Rin Chupircho
Infinity Son by Adam Silvera
Loveboat Taipei by Abigail Hing Wen
FML by Shaun David Hutchinson
The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley by Shaun David Hutchinson
The Deathday Letter by Shaun David Hutchinson
We Are the Ants by Shaun David Hutchinson See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Eric and Kelly offer up a boatload of YA book recommendations for this year’s Read Harder tasks.
This episode is sponsored by Book Riot’s 2020 Read Harder Challenge, Macmillan Audio, and Tor Teen.
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SHOW NOTES
The Gravity of Us by Phil Stamper
The Walls Around Us by Nova Ren Suma
The Rise and Fall of Charles Lindbergh by Candace Fleming
The Great and Only Barnum by Candace Fleming
Queer There and Everywhere by Sarah Prager
Blanca and Roja by Anna-Marie McLemore
Pride by Ibi Zoboi
Gentlemen by Michael Northrop
Almost American Girl by Robin Ha
Relish by Lucy Knisley
Honor Girl by Maggie Thrash
A Storm Too Soon by Michael Tougias
Aftershocks by Marisa Reichardt
Outrun The Moon by Stacey Lee
Saving Savannah by Tonya Bolden
Burn Baby Burn by Meg Medina
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
Ruse by Cindy Pon
Firestarter by Tara Sim
Our Dark Duet by Victoria Schwab
Orpheus Girl by Brynne Rebele-Henry
Dress Codes for Small Towns by Courtney Stevens
I Wish You All The Best by Mason Deaver
Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
I Was Their American Dream by Malaka Gharib
Dry by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
Not a Drop to Drink by Mindy McGinnis
The Unexpected Everything by Morgan Matson
The Astonishing Color of After by Emily XR Pan
Illuminae by Jay Kristoff and Amie Kaufmann
First Day on Earth by Cecil Castellucci
The Newcomers by Helen Thrope
A Time To Dance by Padma Venkatraman
You’re Welcome Universe by Whitney Gardner
Brave Enough by Kati Gardner
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
Foreshadow YA
Cricket Magazine
Crazy Horse’s Girlfriend by Erika T. Wurth See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Eric is joined by Phil Stamper, author of The Gravity of Us, to talk one of their favorite backlist titles from Nova Ren Suma, The Walls Around Us. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot’s newest podcast, Novel Gazing. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! SHOW NOTES The Gravity of Us by Phil Stamper Timekeeper by Tara Sim Scavenge the Stars by Tara Sim The Walls Around Us by Nova Ren Suma 17 and Gone by Nova Ren Suma Imaginary Girls by Nova Ren Suma Interview with Nova Ren in School Library Journal Handbook for Mortal saga See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Eric and Kelly talk about their 2020 reading goals, then offer up an array of their most-anticipated upcoming YA books. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, Scavenge The Stars by Tara Sim from Amazon Publishing, and Children of Virtue and Vengeance by Tomi Adeyemi. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! SHOW NOTES Live "Hey YA" recording details Be Not Far From Me by Mindy McGinnis Tigers, Not Daughters by Samantha Mabry Scavenge the Stars by Tara Sim Dancing At The Pity Party by Tyler Feder Verona Comics by Jennifer Dugan Camp by LC Rosen Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas This Is My America by Kim Johnson Star Daughter by Shveta Thakar Running by Natalia Sylvester The Voting Booth by Brandy Colbert Incendiary by Zoraida Cordova The Henna Wars by Adiba Jaigirda War and Speech by Don Zolidis See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Eric and Kelly highlight some of the undersung YA of 2019 and scream about what they’re reading this winter. This episode is sponsored by The Read Harder Journal, Regretting You by Colleen Hoover from Amazon Publishing, and Book Riot’s 2020 Read Harder Challenge. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! SHOW NOTES Live Hey YA Show, February 25, 6:30 pm in Chicago We Used To Be Friends by Amy Spalding Almost American Girl by Robin Ha When You Were Everything by Ashley Woodfolk The Light at the Bottom of the World by London Shah 10 Blind Dates by Ashley Elston Tarnished Are the Stars by Rosiee Thor The Downstairs Girl by Stacey Lee The Griefkeeper by Alexsandra Villasante I Hope You Get this Message by Farah Naz Rishi Who Put This Song on by Morgan Parker Better Than the Best Plan by Lauren Morrill The Revolution of Birdie Randolph by Brandy Colbert The Exact Opposite of Okay by Laura Steven The Stars and The Blackness Between Them by Junauda Petrus Loveboat, Taipei by Abigail Hing Wen Ruthless Gods by Emily Duncan The Rise and Fall of Charles Lindberg by Candace Fleming The Gravity of Us by Phil Stamper Dancing at The Pity Party by Tyler Feder Red Hood by Elana K. Arnold We Unleash the Merciless Storm by Tehlor Kay Mejia Spellhacker by M.K. England How To Build A Heart by Maria Padian Be Not Far From Me by Mindy McGinnis Scavenge the Stars by Tara Sim Verona Comics by Jennifer Dugan See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
You asked, and Kelly and Eric answered. It's the holiday YA book recommendation extravaganza! This episode is sponsored by The Read Harder Journal and Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, publisher of The Folk of the Air series by Holly Black. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter!
Show Notes The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl by Dean Hale and Shannon Hale Black Panther: The Young Prince by Ronald L. Smith Con Quest by Sam Maggs Be Not Far From Me by Mindy McGinnis Kiffe, Kiffe Tomorrow by Faiza Guene Big Fat Manifesto by Susan Vaught The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han My Life Next Door by Huntley Fitzpatrick Amy & Roger's Epic Detour by Morgan Matson The Disenchantments by Nina LaCour The Seventh Wish by Kate Messner Front Desk by Kelly Yang With The Fire On High by Elizabeth Acevedo Heroine by Mindy McGinnis Vengeance Road by Erin Bowman Slay by Brittney Morris Under A Painted Sky by Stacey Lee The Downstairs Girl by Stacey Lee Gunslinger Girl by Lyndsay Ely Rotten by Michael Northrop Trapped by Michael Northrop 172 Hours On The Moon by Johan Harstad The Perks of Being A Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky Dear Martin by Nic Stone The Key of Nira Ghani by Natasha Deen The Boy In The Black Suit by Jason Reynolds Bookish Boyfriends by Tiffany Schmidt Tyrell by Coe Booth A Line In The Dark by Malinda Lo Spin and Fake ID by Lamar Giles Pointe by Brandy Colbert Who Put This Song On? By Morgan Parker It's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini My Heart and Other Black Holes by Jasmine Warga Six Goodbyes We Never Said by Candace Ganger Shade Me by Jennifer Brown Ultraviolet by RJ Anderson Ordinary Girls by Blair Thornburgh Pan’s Labyrinth by Guillero del Toro and Cornelia Funke The Waking Forest by Alyssa Wees Cecil Castellucci books Five Flavors of Dumb by Antony John Run by Kody Keplinger LGBTQ Reads Adaptation and Inheritance by Malinda Lo Shatter the Sky by Rebecca Kim Wells' Of Fire and Stars by Audrey Colthurst Queens of Geek by Jen Wilde Leah On The Offbeat by Becky Albertalli Hot Dog Girl by Jen Dugan In The Neighborhood of True by Susan Kaplan Carlton The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner Brett McCarthy: Work In Progress by Maria Padian The Way You Make Me Feel by Maurene Goo Symptoms of a Heartbreak by Sona Charaipotra I Love You So Mochi by Sarah Kuhn I Am Still Alive by Kate Alice Marshall The November Girl by Lydia Kang The Epic Crush of Genie Lo by FC Yee The Light At The Bottom of The World by London Shah A Spark of White Fire by Sangu Mandanna Want by Cindy Pon See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Kelly and Eric talk about underrated YA gems of the last decade and highlight great reads for Native American History Month. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot’s TBR, Supernova by Marissa Meyer, and Rebel by Marie Lu. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter!
Show Notes Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky by Kwame Mbalia Wild Life by Keena Roberts "Best YA of the Decade" Rose Sees Red by Cecil Castellucci First Day on Earth by Cecil Castellucci Tin Star by Cecil Castellucci Amplified by Tara Kelly Family by Micol Ostow Tracked by Jenny Martin The Storyteller by Antonia Michaelis, translated by Miriam Debbage Relativity by Cristin Bishara Stupid Fast by Geoff Herbach Black Hole Sun by David Macinnis Gill How It Went Down by Kekla Magoon Light It Up by Kekla Magoon The Girl Who Could Silence the Wind by Meg Medina Juvenile in Justice by Richard Ross Girls in Justice by Richard Ross Hit by Delilah S. Dawson Proxy by Alex London Blood and Salt by Kim Liggett The Wells End by Seth Fishman Something Strange and Deadly by Susan Dennard Hearts Unbroken by Cynthia Leitich Smith Code Talker by by Joseph Bruchac After the Fall by Kate Hart The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline The Night Wanderer by Drew Hayden Taylor
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Kelly and guest host Amanda Nelson talk about crossover reads, as well as their Swiss Army YA recommendations. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot’s Blind Date With A Book, Penguin Random House Audio, and A Map of Days by Ransom Riggs. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter!
SHOW NOTES Publishers Weekly "Best of 2019" YA books Red, White, and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston The Pretty One by Keah Brown Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir A Prayer for Travelers by Ruchika Tomar Chilling Effect by Valerie Valdes The Saturday Night Ghost Club by Craig Davidson Markswoman by Rati Mehrotra The Newcomers by Helen Thorpe Burn Baby Burn by Meg Medina The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth His Hideous Heart edited by Dahlia Adler Black Enough edited by Ibi Zoboi Pan's Labyrinth by Guillermo del Toro and Cornelia Funke Hearts Unbroken by Cynthia Leitich Smith Audacity by Melanie Crowder The Summoner (series) by Taran Matharu See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Kelly and Eric talk about the return of vampires and go deep into YA book cover trends for 2020. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot’s Blind Date With A Book, I'm Not Dying With You Tonight, and What Makes Us. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter!
SHOW NOTES Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All by Laura Ruby I Hope You Get This Message by Farah Naz Rishi Infinity Son by Adam Silvera The Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay Look Both Ways by Jason Reynolds "Denton Little's Death Date" and Snap TV "YA Vampire Stories Are Back" Vampires Never Get Old edited by Zoraida Cordova and Natalie Parker The Beautiful by Renee Ahdieh Slay Like A Girl: Ditch The Demons and Be Your Own Hero by Micol Ostow Vampires, Hearts, and Other Dead Things by Margie Fuston Slayer by Kiersten White Chosen by Kiersten White Fake Blood by Whitney Gardner The House of Night by PC and Kristin Casts Empire of the Vampire by Jay Kristoff Opium and Absinthe by Lydia Kang Deathless Divide by Justina Ireland Anna K. by Jenny Lee Where Dreams Descend by Janella Angeles Incendiary by Zoraida Córdova We Free the Stars by Hafsah Faizal Star Daughter by Shveta Thakrar (Goodreads link) We Are The Wildcats by Siobhan Vivian Of Curses and Kisses by Sandhya Menon Zara Houssain Is Here by Sabina Kahn The Voting Booth by Brandy Colbert (Goodreads link) Salty Bitter Sweet by Mayra Cuevas You Should See Me In A Crown by Leah Johnson We Used to be Friends by Amy Spalding Yes No Maybe So by Aisha Saeed and Becky Albertalli A Love Hate Thing by Whitney D. Grandison When We Were Magic by Sarah Gailey All Your Twisted Secrets by Diana Urban One Of Us Is Next by Karen McManus Jane Anonymous by Laura Faria Stolarz Clique Bait by Ann Valett You’re Next by Kylie Schachte This Train Is Being Held by Ismée Amiel Williams What Kind of Girl by Alyssa Scheinmel The Feminist Agenda of Jemima Kincaid by Kate Hattemer Four Days of You and Me by Miranda Kenneally Freaky in Fresno by Laurie Boyle Crompton Miss You Love You Hate You Bye by Abby Sher Little Universes by Heather Demetrios Foul is Fair by Hannah Capin A Map From Here to There by Emery Lord We Were Promised Spotlights by Lindsay Sproul The Night of Your Life by Lydia Sharp Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins Woven in Moonlight by Isabel Ibañez The Midnight Lie by Marie Rutkowski The Serpent’s Curse by Lisa Maxwell (Goodreads link) Ghost Wood Song by Erica Waters (Goodreads link) The Mall by Megan McCafferty Camp by Lev AC Rosen Redemption Prep by Samuel Miller See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Eric and Jenn talk about speculative YA, and their wishlists for YA writers who should take on comic characters. This episode is sponsored by Read This Book, The Grey Sisters by Jo Treggiari, and Bezkamp by Samuel Sattin and Jen Hickman. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! SHOW NOTES Slay by Brittney Morris Far From Home: Peter and Ned’s Ultimate Travel Journal by Preeti Chhibber Sorted by Jackson Bird Beneath the Citadel by Destiny Soria The Bone Witch Series by Rin Chupeco (tw: homophobia, transphobia) The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein by Kiersten White (tw: domestic abuse, harm to children) His Hideous Heart, edited by Dahlia Adler The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness All Rights Reserved by Gregory Scott Katsoulis Mirror in the Sky by Aditi Khorana Loki: Where Mischief Lies by Mackenzi Lee Wayward (Jim Zub, Steven Cummings, John Rauch), Sarah Kuhn (Heroine Complex) She-Hulk, SL Huang (Cas Russell series) Thor, FC Yee (Rise of Kyoshi, Epic Crush of Genie Lo) Wasp, Kristin Cashore (Graceling Series, Jane, Unlimited) Storm, L.L McKinney (A Blade So Black) Jubilee, Lydia Kang (Control) Shazam, Nikki Barthelmess (The Quiet You Carry) Teen Cable, Emily Skrutskie (The Abyss Surrounds Us) Iceman, Shaun David Hutchinson (We Are The Ants) Marvel 1602, Marvel 1872, etc., Ruta Sepetys, Stacey Lee, Erin Bowman See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Kelly and Eric talk about YA book-writing duos then highlight some of the fall titles that are falling under the radar — but shouldn’t. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot’s Mystery Giveaway, Libro.fm, and Penguin Random House Audio’s Frankly In Love by David Yoon. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! SHOW NOTES Spell Hacker by M.K. England The Disasters by M.K. England Rules for Vanishing by Kate Alice Marshall David Levithan’s books Unpregnant by Jenni Hendriks and Ted Caplan Roomies by Sara Zarr and Tara Altebrando Dear Haiti, Love Alaine by Maika Moulite and Maritza Moulite Watch Us Rise by Renee Watson and Ellen Hagen Zenith by Sasha Alsberg and Lindsay Cummings Yes No Maybe So by Aisha Saeed and Becky Albertalli Illuminae by Jay Kristoff and Amie Kaufman When You Get the Chance by Tom Ryan and Robin Stevenson The Light at the Bottom of the World by London Shah The Liars of Mariposa Island by Jennifer Matthieu The Library of Lost Things by Laura Taylor Namey The Boy and Girl Who Broke The World by Amy Reed When the Stars Lead to You by Ronni Davis Orpheus Girl by Brynne Rebele-Henry Full Disclosure by Camryn Garrett See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Kelly and Eric talk about YA books that’d make great picks for college freshman to prepare for their school lives, then scream about their huge fall YA TBR lists. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot’s Mystery Giveaway, Have A Little Faith In Me by Sonia Hartl, and Crown of Coral and Pearl by Mara Rutheford. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! SHOW NOTES Rebel Girls by Elizabeth Keenan Homecoming by Cynthia Voigt SSR Podcast Jackpot by Nic Stone American Panda by Gloria Chao We Are Okay by Nina LaCour Roomies by Sara Zarr and Tara Altebrando The Revolution of Birdie Randolph by Brandy Colbert Finding Felicity by Stacy Kade Wrecked by Maria Padian The Magicians by Lev Grossman Final Draft by Riley Redgate Quiet by Susan Cain “Why YA Needs More Quitters” The Stars and The Blackness Between Them by Junauda Petrus How to Be Remy Cameron by Julian Winters The Grace Year by Kim Liggett Verify by Joelle Charbonneau Rules for Vanishing by Kate Alice Marshall Into the Crooked Place by Alexandra Christo Who Put This Song On? By Morgan Parker Tarnished Are the Stars by Rosiee Thor Timekeeper by Tara Sim Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All by Laura Ruby The Good Luck Girls by Charlotte Nicole Davis Wild Life: Dispatches From A Childhood of Baboons and Button Downs by Keena Roberts I Hope You Get This Message by Farah Naz Rishi Our Wayward Fate by Gloria Chao
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Kelly and Eric celebrate their 50th episode and 2nd podcast anniversary with 50 rapid-fire backlist YA recommendations. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, No Ivy League by Hazel Newlevant, and The Undoing of Thistle Tate by Katelyn Detweiler. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! SHOW NOTES Note: Kelly was incorrect about the book from the creator of Younger. It was the book from the creator of The Bold Type. Hero by Perry Moore Born Confused by Tanuja Desai Hidier Proxy by Alex London The After Life by Daniel Ehrenhaf Uglies by Scott Westerfeld All That I Can Fix by Crystal Chan Big Fat Manifesto by Susan Vaught Apple In The Middle by Dawn Quigley The New Guy by Amy Spalding Finding Yvonne by Brandy Colbert Side Effects May Vary by Julie Murphy Audrey, Wait! by Robin Benway Little Brother by Cory Doctorow Tyrell by Coe Booth This Is Not a Test by Courtney Summers Frost by Marianna Baer 500 Words or Less by Juleah del Rosario Noteworthy by Riley Redgate When I Was The Greatest by Jason Reynolds 172 Hours on the Moon by Johan Harstad Across the Universe by Beth Revis Fake ID by Lamar Giles Beauty Queens by Libba Bray Tiny Pretty Things by Sona Charaipotra and Dhonielle Clayton Three Day Summer by Sarvenaz Tash Something Like Normal by Trish Doller This Impossible Light by Lily Myers The Borden Murders by Sarah Miller Dream Country by Shannon Gibney A Season of Daring Greatly by Ellen Emerson White Control by Lydia Kang Silver Phoenix by Cindy Pon An Infinite Number of Parallel Universe by Randy Ribay The Lost Girl by Sangu Mandanna More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera Wrecked by Maria Padian Up To This Pointe by Jennifer Longo The Memory of Light by Francisco X. Stork We Are The Ants by Shaun David Hutchinson The Heartbeats of Wing Jones by Katherine Webber Dueled by Elsie Chapman The Secret of a Heart Note by Stacey Lee The Vigilante Poets of Selwyn Academy by Kate Hattemer The Vicious Deep by Zoraida Cordova The Sound of Us by Ashley Poston The Truth Commission by Susan Juby Through The Woods by Emily Carroll Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow by Faiza Guene The Golden Day by Ursula Dubosarsky The Waking Dark by Robin Wasserman Hog Dog Girl by Jennifer Dugan See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Kelly and special guest Brandy Colbert talk about Norma Klein’s Mom, The Wolfman, and Me, well-rendered non-traditional family dynamics, city life for 11-year-olds, and more in this Hey YA: Extra Credit episode. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! SHOW NOTES The Revolution of Birdie Randolph by Brandy Colbert Mom, The Wolfman, and Me by Norma Klein See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Kelly and guest host Tirzah Price talk about 2019’s queer YA offerings and dive deep into the full-names-in-book-titles trend. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders and Swipe Right for Murder by James Patterson. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter!
SHOW NOTES The Lifeboat Clique by Kathy Parks Hungry Hearts edited by Elsie Chapman and Caroline Tung Richmond Hot Dog Girl by Jennifer Dugan Amelia Westlake Was Never Here by Erin Gough The Stars And The Blackness Between Them by Junauda Petrus Shatter the Sky by Rebecca Kim Wells The Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali by Sabina Kahn Tell Me How You Really Feel by Aminah Mae Safi The Griefkeeper by Alexandra Villasante Kiss Number 8 by Colleen AF Venable and Ellen T. Crenshaw Brave Face by Shaun David Hutchinson All The Things We Do In The Dark by Saundra Mitchell Bloom by Kevin Panetta and Savanna Ganucheau Of Ice and Shadows by Audrey Coulthurst Dear Rachel Maddow by Adrienne Kisner The Confusion of Laurel Graham by Adrienne Kisner The Revolution of Birdie Randolph by Brandy Colbert How to Be Remy Cameron by Julian Winters Don’t Date Rosa Santos by Nina Moreno Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me by Mariko Tamaki and Rosemary O’Connell-Valero The Summer of Jordi Perez by Amy Spalding The Last Voyage of Poe Blythe by Ally Condie The Education of Margot Sanchez by Lilliam Rivera The New David Espinoza by Fred Aceves See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Kelly digs into No More Saturday Nights, the lack of teen fathers in YA, and more in this Hey YA: Extra Credit episode. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! Show Notes: No More Saturday Nights by Norma Klein Kirkus Review Hey YA Extra Credit schedule See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Eric and Kelly talk about vacations from hell and then share ghost stories to be enjoyed on said vacations. This episode is sponsored by #BookSquadGoals and TBR: Tailored Book Recommendations. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! Show Notes: Wilder Girls by Rory Power Sawkill Girls by Claire LeGrand Love & Gelato by Jenna Evans Welch A Fierce and Subtle Poison by Samantha Mabry And We’re Off by Dana Schwartz Guy In Your MFA Twitter Burn for Burn by Jenny Han and Siobhan Vivian Love and Other Train Wrecks by Leah Konen The Devil and Winnie Flynn by Micol Ostow Rules for Vanishing by Kate Alice Marshall Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs Ten by Gretchen McNeil Wanderlove by Kirsten Hubbard With Malice by Eileen Cook Meant to Be by Lauren Morrill Hot Dog Girl by Jennifer Dugan Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins Conspiracy of Us by Maggie C. Hall This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki Lumberjanes We Speak in Storms by Natalie Lund Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake A Room Away From The Wolves by Nova Ren Suma Shutter by Courtney Alameda Anya’s Ghost by Vera Brosgol The Girl from the Well by Rin Chupeco Dead Girls of Hysteria Hall by Kate Alender Spirit Hunters by Ellen Oh City of Ghosts by Victoria Schwabb Ghost Squad by Claribel Ortega See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Kelly and special guest Tom Ryan talk about Norma Klein’s Breaking Up, progressive representation of queer couples, toxic adults, and more in this Hey YA: Extra Credit episode. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! Show Notes: Keep This To Yourself by Tom Ryan Breaking Up by Norma Klein Hey YA Extra Credit schedule See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Eric and Kelly talk about trends in YA this year they’ve seen, as well as offer up some cool reading for summer and hot reading for winter. This episode is sponsored by #BookSquadGoals Podcast and The Best Lies by Sarah Lyu. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! Show Notes Slay by Brittney Morris The Shipby Antonia Honeywell Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice Family Secrets by Norma Klein Wilder Girls by Rory Power Red Rising by Pierce Brown Across The Universe by Beth Revis Cinder by Marissa Meyer Heart of Iron by Ashley Poston Nyxia by Scott Reitgen A Spark of White Fire by Sangu Mandanna The Gilded Wolves by Roshani Chokshi The Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali by Sabina Khan Love From A to Z by SK Ali The Weight of Our Sky by Hanna Alkaf Bright Burning Stars by AK Small Let’s Go Swimming On Doomsday by Natalie C. Andersno When The Ground is Hard by Malla Nunn Dear Haiti With Love by Maika and Maritza Moulite in Haiti The Things She’s Seen by Ambelin and Ezekiel Kwaymullina Wicked Fox by Kat Cho Somewhere Only We Know by Maurene Goo Rebel Seoul and Rogue Heart by Axie Oh Bloody Seoul by Sonia Patel Avatar: The Last Airbender by FC Yee His Hideous Heart edited by Dahlia Adler It’s A Whole Spiel edited by Laura Silverman and Katherine Locke Rural Voices edited by Nora Shalaway Carpenter Black Enough edited by Ibi Zoboi Color Outside The Lines edited by Sangu Mandanna Blood and Salt by Kim Liggett Trapped by Michael Northrop The Well’s End by Seth Fishman Notes From My Captivity by Kathy Parks Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater Wintersong by S Jae-Jones Blankets by Craig Thompson Essex County by Jeff Lemire
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Kelly talks about Norma Klein’s Love Is One Of The Choices, immature adult figures, and student-teacher relationships in the third Hey YA: Extra Credit episode. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! Show Notes: Love Is One Of The Choices by Norma Klein Hey YA Extra Credit schedule See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Eric and Kelly talk about their favorite YA books of the year so far, highlight 2019 YA comics, and scream about the upcoming Hunger Games prequel. This episode is sponsored by Libro.fm and The Virtue of Sin by Shannon Schruen. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! Shownotes: “Untitled Panem Novel” We Hunt The Flame by Hafsah Faizal Slay by Brittney Morris I’m Not Dying With You Tonight by Gilly Segal and Kimberly Jones Love Is One Of The Choices by Norma Klein We Set The Dark On Fire by Tehlor Kay Mejia Rayne and Delilah’s Midnight Matinee by Jeff Zentner Heroine by Mindy McGinnis Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay Black Enough edited by Ibi Zoboi Hot Dog Girl by Jennifer Dugan Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me by Mariko Tamaki, illustrated by Rosemary Valero O’Connell The Giver by Lois Lowry Mooncakes by Suzanne Walker and Wendy Xu Bloom by Kevin Panetta I Was Their American Dream by Malaka Gharib Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson and Emily Carroll See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Kelly talks about Norma Klein’s Family Secrets, problematic weight stuff, and childish adults on the second Hey YA: Extra Credit episode. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! Show Notes: Kirkus Review of Family Secrets (scroll down — linking directly takes you to an entirely different book called Family Secrets). Family Secrets by Norma Klein Hey YA Extra Credit schedule See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Kelly and special guest Sarah Dessen talk about teen life today, how YA has grown and changed in the last two decades, and what “strong female characters” means. This episode is sponsored by All The Books, Where You End and I Begin by Preston Norton, from Disney Publishing Worldwide and Amazon Publishing. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! Show Notes The Rest of the Story by Sarah Dessen Netflix options Sarah Dessen novels for adaptation The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo Little Fires Everywhere by Celest Ng It by Stephen King Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson Cut by Patricia McCormick Twilight by Stephenie Meyer There’s Something About Sweetie by Sandhya Menon Dear Martin by Nic Stone Slay by Brittney Morris Sixteen by Megan McCafferty A Summer to Die by Lois Lowry Ash by Malinda Lo Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers A Billion for Boris by Mary Rodgers The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas With The Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins On Writing by Stephen King For listeners itching to know more about the authors we dove into, you’ll do well looking up books by Jacqueline Woodson, Walter Dean Myers, Julie Anne Peters, David Levithan, Neal Schusterman, Jennifer Smith, and Deb Caletti.
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Kelly talks about Norma Klein’s Domestic Arrangements, manipulative adults, and teen love on the first Hey YA: Extra Credit episode. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! Show Notes: Kirkus Review of Domestic Arrangements Domestic Arrangements by Norma Klein Hey YA Extra Credit schedule See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Eric and Kelly talk about abortion and reproductive rights in YA, highlight summer reads (and not in the way you imagine), and share their summer TBRs. This episode is sponsored by Audible, Birthday by Meredith Russo, and BookCon. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! Show Notes Domestic Arrangements by Norma Klein Let Me Hear A Rhyme by Tiffany D. Jackson The Exact Opposite of Okay by Laura Steven Way To Go by Tom Ryan We Hunt the Flame by Hasfah Faizel Feral Youth by Shaun David Hutchinson Eve of Man by Giovanna Fletcher and Tom Fletcher I Know It’s Over by CK Kelly Martin Finding Yvonne by Brandy Colbert With The Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo The Cheerleaders by Kara Thomas Bright Burning Stars by AK Small Ask Me How I Got Here by Christine Hepperman Aftercare Instructions by Bonnie Pipkin Things I Can’t Forget by Miranda Kenneally The Truth About Alice by Jennifer Mathieu What Every Girl Should Know: Margaret Sanger’s Journey by J. Albert Mann Salt by Hannah Moskowitz The Prince of Venice Beach by Blake Nelson The Trouble with Destiny by Lauren Morrill The Lake Effect by Erin McCahan The Sandcastle Empire by Kayla Olson How It Feels to Float by Helena Fox The Lifeboat Clique by Kathy Parks A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Tahereh Mafi The Sound of Us by Ashley Poston Start Here by Trish Doller Dactyl Hill Squad by Daniel José Older We Speak In Storms by Natalie Lund I Wanna Be Where You Are by Kristina Forest See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Eric and Kelly talk about teens who love gardens and the outdoors, as well as the wave of excellent YA books about music hitting shelves this year. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, The Lost Coast by Amy Rose Capetta, and Again, But Better by Christina Riccio. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! Show Notes Brave Face by Shaun David Hutchinson I Hope You Get This Message by Farah Naz Rishi We Hunt the Flame by Hafsah Faizal Descendant of the Crane by Joan He The Girl You Thought I Was by Rebecca Phillips Switchback by Danika Stone A Fierce and Subtle Poison by Samantha Mabry Secret of a Heart Note by Stacey Lee Bone Gap by Laura Ruby Wicked Like a Wildfire by Lana Popovic Lost Stars by Lisa Selin Davis Blight by Alexandra Duncan Wild Beauty by Anna-Marie McLemore Dan vs. Nature by Don Calame “The Heartland Trilogy” by Chuck Wendig Spin by Lamar Giles On The Come Up by Angie Thomas Let Me Hear a Rhyme by Tiffany D. Jackson In The Key of Nira Ghani by Natasha Deen Somewhere Only We Know by Maurene Goo Impossible Music by Sean Williams You’d Be Mine by Erin Hahn Night Music by Jenn Marie Thorne See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Eric, Kelly, and special guest Alyssa Wees talk about debut YA novels, dark fairy tales, and haunted billboards. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, The Lovely And The Lost by Jennifer Lynn Barnes, and TBR from Book Riot. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter!
Show Notes: The Waking Forest by Alyssa Wees White Rose by Kip Wilson Bright Burning Stars by AK Small Gravemaidens by Kelly Coon Serious Moonlight by Jenn Bennett I Hope You Get This Message by Farah Naz Rishi Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas Field Guide to the North American Teenager by Ben Phillipe The Opposite of Always by Justin A. Reynolds We Set The Dark On Fire by Tehlor May Meija The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly by Stephanie Oakes Descendant of the Crane by Joan He The Candle and the Flame by Nafiza Azad Spectacle by Jodie Lynn Zdrok House of Salt and Sorrows by Erin Craig I Wanna Be Where You Are by Kristina Forest The Tenth Girl by Sara Faring Hot Dog Girl by Jennifer Dugan Wicked Saints by Emily Duncan You’d Be Mine by Erin Hahn The Weight of Our Sky by Hanna Alkaf More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner Starfish by Akemi Bowman Dear Martin by Nic Stone The Astonishing Color of After by Emily X. R. Pan Pan’s Labyrinth by Guillermo del Toro and Cornelia Funke The Replacement by Brenna Yovanoff Ash by Malinda Lo Forest of a Thousand Lanterns by Julie C. Dao Vassa in the Night by Sarah Porter Keturah and Lord Death by Martine Leavitt Wintersong by S Jae Jones Hunted and Sherwood by Meagan Spooner You can find Alyssa on Twitter @alyssawees and on Instagram as @alyssa_wees. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Eric and Kelly talk about YA prom stories and great verse novels for National Poetry Month. This episode is sponsored by Libro.fm, Never-Contented Things by Sarah Porter, and BookCon. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! Show Notes: There’s Something About Sweetie by Sandhya Menon We Are The Perfect Girl by Ariel Kaplan With The Fire On High by Elizabeth Acevedo Destroy All Monsters by Sam J Miller
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Samira Ahmed J. Anderson Coats Brooding YA Hero Karen M. McManus Erin Hahn Adam Silvera Arvin Ahmadi Prom Nights from Hell edited by Meg Cabot 21 Proms edited by David Levithan The Anti-Prom by Abby McDonald The Last Best Story by Maggie Lehrman The Prom-Goer’s Interstellar Excursion by Chris McCoy The Night of Your Life by Lydia Sharp Deacon Locke Went to Prom by Brian Katcher The Way You Make Me Feel by Maurene Goo The Inside of Out by Jennifer Thorne Promposal by Rhonda Helms Leah On The Offbeat by Becky Albertalli Bliss by Lauren Myracle Tessa Masterson Will Go To Prom by Emily Franklin Secret Heart by Danielle Drager White Rose by Kip Wilson Family by Micol Ostow The Language of Fire: Joan of Arc Reimagined by Stephanie Hemphill The Final Hours of Joan of Arc by David Elliott I Felt a Funeral in my Brain by Wil Walton In Paris with You by Clementine Beauvais 500 Words or Less by Juleah del Rosario Mary’s Monster: Love, Madness, and How Mary Shelley Created Frankenstein by Lita Judge See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Eric and Kelly talk about climate fiction and YA books set all around the world. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, Inebriated, and Haphaven. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! Show Notes: SHOUT by Laurie Halse Anderson Pointe by Brandy Colbert “Kidlit These Days” podcast Wicked Fox by Kat Cho You’d Be Mine by Erin Hahn Ruse by Cindy Pon Under the Never Sky by Veronica Rossi After The Snow by SD Crockett Orleans by Sherri L. Smith Dry by Neal and Jarrod Shusterman Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi It’s Getting Hot In Here by Bridget Heos Under the Empyrean Sky by Chuck Wendig The Sandcastle Empire by Kayla Olson Empty by Suzanne Weyn Breathe by Sarah Crossan The Water Wars by Cameron Stracher Ashes, Ashes by Jo Treggiari The Eleventh Plague by Jeff Hirsch Not a Drop to Drink by Mindy McGinnis Burn Out by Kristi Helvig The Weight of Our Sky by Hanna Alkaf Timekeeper by Tara Sim Up To This Pointe by Jennifer Longo Meant to Be by Lauren Morrill I Love You So Mochi by Sarah Kuhn Romancing the Dark in the City of Light by Ann Jacobus A Girl Like That by Tanaz Bhathena If You Could Be Mine by Sara Farizan Notes From My Captivity by Kathy Parks A Conspiracy of Us by Maggie Hall The Astonishing Color of After by Emily X.R. Pan Want by Cindy Pon
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Eric and Kelly talk about YA adaptations of all stripes and share their spring YA TBRs. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, The Iliad by Gareth Hinds, and Chicken Girl by Heather Smith from Penguin Teen Canada. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! Show Notes: Hungry Hearts edited by Elsie Chapman and Caroline Tung Richmond It’s a Whole Spiel edited by Katherine Locke and Lauren Silverman This Time Will Be Different by Misa Sigiura The Weight Of Our Sky by Hanna Alkaf I Don’t Want To Be Crazy by Samantha Shultz Parkland by David Cullen The Shadow Queen by CJ Redwine A Long, Long Sleep by Anna Sheehan Hunted by Meagan Spooner Sherwood by Meagan Spooner The Forest Queen by Betsy Cornwell I, Claudia by Mary McCoy Cinder by Marissa Meyer Ash by Malinda Lo Blanca and Roja by Anna-Marie McLemore Forest of a Thousand Lanterns by Julie C. Dao Stepsister by Jennifer Donnelly Splintered by AG Howard His Hideous Heart edited by Dahlia Adler A Blade So Black by L.L. McKinney A Sky Without Stars by Jessica Brody and Joanne Rendell Heart of Iron by Ashley Poston The Wrath and the Dawn by Renee Ahdieh Ordinary Girls by Blair Thornburgh Bookish Boyfriends: The Boy Next Door by Tiffany Schmidt With The Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo Forward Me Back to You by Mitali Perkins Finding Yvonne by Brandy Colbert All Of Us With Wings by Michelle Ruiz Keil We Are The Perfect Girl by Ariel Kaplan Somewhere Only We Know by Maurene Goo Brave Face by Shaun David Hutchinson There’s Something About Sweetie by Sandhya Menon See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Eric and Kelly talk about the YA books they’ve read that no one else has read and highlight a wealth of excellent teen books to read for Women’s History Month. This episode is sponsored by Libro.fm, An Affair of Poisons by Addie Thorley, and Flatiron Books. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! Show Notes: Amy Poehler taking Moxie to Netflix The Art of Losing by Lizzy Mason Internment by Samira Ahmed Wicked Saints by Emily A. Duncan Meet Me Here by Bryan Bliss Calling My Name by Liara Tamani Talker 25 by Joshua McCune His Own Where by June Jordan Autofocus by Lauren Gibaldi Celine by Brock Cole Toxic by Lydia Kang The Island by Olivia Levez Burn Out by Kristi Helvig Since You Asked by Maurene Goo Red Hood by Elana K. Arnold Ginger Snaps Here We Are: Feminism For The Real World edited by Kelly Jensen Watch Us Rise by Renée Watson and Ellen Hagan Glory O’Brien’s History of the Future by A.S. King: SHOUT by Laurie Halse Anderson All the Rage by Courtney Summers We Set The Dark on Fire by Tehlor Kay Mejia Beauty Queens by Libba Bray Period Power by Nadya Okamoto The Duff by Kody Keplinger Votes for Women! By Winifred Conkling
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Eric and Kelly offer up book recommendations when you don’t want to read a love story for Valentine’s Day, then they share awesome YA gift ideas for your Galentine. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot’s TBR, The Me I Meant to Be and HMH Teen, and The Deceivers. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! (Our apologies, there were technical difficulties and the sound is a little off this week.) Show Notes: Bent Heavens by Daniel Kraus Contagion by Erin Bowman A Conspiracy of Stars by Olivia A. Cole The Revolution of Birdie Randolph by Brandy Colbert A Place for Wolves by Kosoko Jackson Jackaby by William Ritter Spin by Lamar Giles You’re Welcome Universe by Whitney Gardner Wildlife by Fiona Wood The Walls Around Us by Nova Ren Suma Odd One Out by Nic Stone Just Visiting by Dahlia Adler Always Forever Maybe by Anica Mrose Rissi Tell Me Three Things by Julie Buxbaum A Room Away From The Wolves by Nova Ren Suma Sadie by Courtney Summers This Land Is Our Land: A History of American Immigration by Linda Barrett Osborne The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas Dumplin‘ by Julie Murphy To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han Signal to Noise by Silvia Moreno-Garcia You Don’t Have To Like Me by Alida Nugent Fireworks by Katie Cotungo SHOUT by Laurie Halse Anderson Great by Sara Benincasa Pride by Ibi Zoboi All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung A Heart In A Body In The World by Deb Caletti
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Eric and Kelly talk about their reading resolutions past, present, and mostly failed, as well as highlight an array of excellent sophomore YA novels. This episode is sponsored by The Read Harder Journal from Book Riot, King of Scars by Leigh Bardugo and the Grishaverse, and The Avon Kisscon Weekend Affair. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! Show Notes: “Why this YA book’s dedication is going viral” Hot Dog Girl by Jennifer Dugan The Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali by Sabina Kahn Tell Me Everything by Sarah Enni The Revolution of Birdie Randolph by Brandy Colbert The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore by Kim Fu Girls Burn Brighter by Shobha Rao On The Come Up by Angie Thomas Here We Are Now by Jasmine Warga Notes From My Captivity by Kathy Parks The Lifeboat Clique by Kathy Parks Invisible Fault Lines by Kristin Paige-Madonia Devoted by Jennifer Mathieu Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu The Arsonist by Stephanie Oakes Rotters by Daniel Kraus The Looking Glass by Janet McNally That Thing We Call A Heart by Sheba Karim With The Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo Internment by Samira Ahmed Dealing in Dreams by Lilliam Rivera Oasis by Katya de Beccera Girl Gone Viral by Arvin Ahmadi See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Eric and Kelly talk about perfect books for tackling genre-related YA book resolutions and share their winter TBRs. This episode is sponsored by The Read Harder Journal from Book Riot and The Similars by Rebecca Hanover. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! Show notes Watch Us Rise by Renee Watson and Ellen Hagen Ruse by Cindy Pon On the Come Up by Angie Thomas Hot Dog Girl by Jennifer Dugan “A Reader’s Moving Checklist” Burn Baby Burn by Meg Medina A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Tahereh Mafi Loving Vs. Virginia by Patricia Hruby Powell Dream Country by Shannon Gibney Traitor Angels by Anne Blankman Under a Painted Sky by Stacey Lee Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys Devils Unto Dust by Emma Berquist A Fierce and Subtle Poison by Samantha Mabry Adaptation and Inheritance by Malinda Lo We Are The Ants by Shaun David Hutchinson Dry by Neal and Jarrod Shusterman Truthwitch by Susan Dennard Tracked by Jenny Martin Heart of Iron by Ashley Poston Frost by Marianna Baer Daughters Unto Devils by Amy Lukavics The Devil and Winnie Flynn by Micol Ostow Blood & Salt by Kim Liggett This Is Not A Test by Courtney Summers Shutter by Courtney Alameda A Heart In A Body in the World by Deb Caletti Hearts Unbroken by Cynthia Leitich Smith Stay Sweet by Siobhan Vivian We Are Okay by Nina LaCour You’re Welcome Universe by Whitney Gardner I’ll Give You The Sun by Jandy Nelson The New Guy (And Other Senior Year Distractions) by Amy Spalding Relish by Lucy Knisley Americanized: Rebel Without a Green Card by Sara Saedi Unpresidented by Martha Brockenbough Queer, There, & Everywhere by Sarah Prager The Revolution of Birdie Randolph by Brandy Colbert A Thousand Sisters by Elizabeth Wein Black Enough edited by Ibi Zoboi See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Eric and Kelly reflect on the biggest YA stories of the year, highlight some great YA memoirs (& memoirs they’d like to see), and talk about some of their personal reading habits. Hey YA is sponsored by the Book Riot Read Harder Journal, Once a King and HMH Teen, and the True Story giveaway. Hey YA is available on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Play, and right here on Book Riot. Show Notes: Pulp by Robin Talley On The Come Up by Angie Thomas Rayne and Delilah’s Midnite Matinee by Jeff Zentner Hot Dog Girl by Jennifer Dugan Ruse by Cindy Pon Beautiful Boy by David Sheff Tweak by Nic Sheff Dear Evan Hansen Shout by Laurie Halse Anderson Not All Boys Are Blue by George M. Johnson Warhead: The True Story of One Teen Who Almost Saved the World by Jeff Henigson Brave Face by Shaun David Hutchinson Body Talk edited by Kelly Jensen “How libraries discriminate against undocumented children” by Erika L. Sanchez Black Enough edited by Ibi Zoboi See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Eric and Kelly pack your gift-giving itineraries and your TBRs with YA books. Sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, Dragonshadow by Elle Katharine White, and So Done by Paula Chase. Hey YA is available on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Play, and right here on Book Riot. Show Notes: The Seven Torments of Amy and Craig by Don Zolidis Summer Bird Blue by Akemi Dawn Bowman Paperback Crush by Gabrielle Moss Need by Joelle Charbonneau A Conspiracy of Us by Maggie Hall Stronger, Faster, and More Beautiful by Arwen Elys Dayton The Princess and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang Black Wings Beating by Alex London The Astonishing Color of After by Emily XR Pan Replica by Lauren Oliver A Touch of Gold by Annie Sullivan Bad Taste in Boys by Carrie Harris Relativity by Cristin Bishara Deadly by Julie Chibbaro Chemistry Lessons by Meredith Goldstein Ivory and Bone by Julie Eshbaugh The Chronal Engine by Greg Leitich Smith A Conspiracy of Stars by Olivia A. Cole Anger Is A Gift by Mark Oshiro Tyler Johnson Was Here by Jay Coles I Am Alfonso Jones by Tony Medina Dear Martin by Nic Stone I Believe In A Thing Called Love by Maurene Goo The Only Thing Worse Than Me Is You by Lily Anderson The Summer of Jordi Perez (And The Best Burger in Los Angeles) by Amy Spalding Save The Date by Morgan Matson Mammoth by Jill Baguchinsky Undead Girl Gang by Lily Anderson The Apocalypse of Elena Mendoza by Shaun David Hutchinson Your Robot Dog Will Die by Arin Greenwood The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner Heart of Iron by Ashley Poston Modern Herstory by Blair Imani See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Eric and Kelly talk about the Goodreads Choice awards in YA (and the lack of nonfiction for young readers), this year’s Best Of lists so far, and highlight funny YA books and what it is that makes for good humor. Sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, Roar and the Magnetic Collection at Lion Forge, and Easy Prey by Catherine Lo from Amulet Books and PiqueBeyond. Hey YA is available on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Play, and right here on Book Riot. Show Notes: Dry by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman Not A Drop To Drink by Mindy McGinnis Riverland by Fran Wilde Updraft by Fran Wilde Publishers Weekly “Best Of YA” 2018 Goodreads Choice (two rounds after our conversation, natch!) The Boneless Mercies by April Genevieve Tucholke Wink Poppy Midnight by April Genevieve Tucholke On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden Hey Kiddo by Jarrett J. Krosoczka All the Little Lights by Jamie McGuire Starry Eyes by Jenn Bennett Life Like by Jay Kristoff’ The Astonishing Color of After by Emily XR Pan Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli What If It’s Us by Adam Silvera and Becky Albertalli All of This is True by Lydia Day Penaflor Hot Pterodactyl Boyfriend by Alan Cumyn The Summer of Jordi Perez (And The Best Burger in Los Angeles) by Amy Spalding We Regret To Inform You by Ariel Kaplan Learning to Swear in America by Katie Kennedy Here To Stay by Sara Farizan I Believe In A Thing Called Love by Maurene Goo Brooding YA Hero by Carrie Ann DiRisio The Lake Effect by Erin McCahan American Panda by Gloria Chao My So-Called Bollywood Life by Nisha Sharma Noteworthy by Riley Redgate Neanderthal Opens the Door to the Universe by Preston Norton Save The Date by Morgan Matson
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Eric and Kelly talk about recent YA releases that you may have missed, great explorations of friendship in YA, and highlight some 2019 titles to get on your radar. Sponsored by The Seven Torments of Amy and Craig, Lost Soul Be At Peace by Maggie Thrash, and Flatiron Books and Legendary by Stephanie Garber. Hey YA is available on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Play, and right here on Book Riot. Show Notes: The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas Bonnie and Clyde by Karen Blumenthal The Quiet You Carry by Nikki Barthelmess Rayne and Delilah’s Midnite Matinee by Jeff Zentner Nightingale by Amy Lukavics American Road Trip by Patrick Flores-Scott Someone Like Me: How An Undocumented Girl Fought For Her American Dream by Julissa Arce 500 Words or Less by Juleah del Rosario (Related: “Gabrielle Union acquires rights“) Analee, In Real Life by Janelle Milanes The Victoria in My Head by Janelle Milanes An Assassin’s Guide to Love & Treason by Virginia Boecker Wildlife by Fiona Wood Over You by Amy Reed “What about intersectionality and female friendship in YA?” by Brandy Colbert Since You Asked by Maurene Goo When You Were Everything by Ashley Woodfolk We’ll Fly Away by Bryan Bliss Burn for Burn (series) by Jenny Han and Siobhan Vivian Jack of Hearts (And Other Parts) by LC Rosen Since You’ve Been Gone by Morgan Matson Chasing Shadows by Swati Avasthi Lumberjanes by Noelle Stevenson, et al. Exit, Pursued by a Bear by EK Johnston The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness Opposite of Always by Justin A. Reynolds Teeth in the Mist by Dawn Kurtagich Ruse by Cindy Pon Trans Mission: My Quest to a Beard by Alex Bertie Gilded Wolves by Roshani Chokshi Hot Dog Girl by Jennifer Dugan Symptoms of a Heartbreak by Sona Charaipotra The Revolution of Birdie Randolph by Brandy Colbert Watch Us Rise by Renee Watson and Ellen Hagan See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Eric and Kelly dive into the big, wide world of YA anthologies and shout about excellent YA books from small and indie presses. Hey YA is sponsored by Confessions of a Teenage Leper by Ashley Little, Vesuvian Books, and Flatiron Books, publishers of Unstoppable Moses by Tyler James Smith. Hey YA is available on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Play, and right here on Book Riot. Show Notes: Black Enough by Ibi Zoboi When You Were Everything by Ashley Woodfolk A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Tahereh Mafi Odd One Out by Nic Stone Sawkill Girls by Claire LeGrande A Thousand Sisters by Elizabeth Wein (Don't) Call Me Crazy edited by Kelly Jensen Kirkus Prize Finalists Toil and Trouble edited by Jessica Spotswood and Tess Sharpe Fresh Ink by Lamar Giles Our Stories, Our Voices: 21 YA Authors Get Real About Injustice, Empowerment, and Growing Up Female in America edited by Amy Reed My True Love Gave to Me and Summer Days & Summer Nights edited by Stephanie Perkins Open Mic: Riffs on Life Between Cultures edited by Mitali Perkins Meet Cute Slasher Girls and Monster Boys edited by April Genevieve Tucholke 1968: Today’s Authors Explore a Year of Rebellion, Revolution, and Change edited by Marc Aronson and Susan Campbell Bartoletti Trust Your Name by Tim Tingle The Girl with the Red Balloon by Katherine Locke Running With Lions by Julian Winters The Abyss Surrounds Us by Emily Skrutskie Girls Resist! By KaeLyn Rich Zeroboxer by Fonda Lee Open Mic Night at Westminster Cemetery by Mary Amato Spliced by Jon McGoran Girls on the Line by Jennie Liu Home & Away by Candice Montgomery Timekeeper by Tara Sim See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Eric, Kelly, and special guest Patrick Flores talk about YA road trip novels, this year's National Book Award long list titles in Young People's Literature, and highlight a wealth of YA reads for Hispanic Heritage Month. Sponsored by TBR, Kens by Raziel Reed, and Grim Lovelies by Megan Shepherd from HMH. Hey YA is available on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Play, and right here on Book Riot. Show Notes: American Road Trip by Patrick Flores-Scott Darius The Great is Not Okay by Adib Khorram Agony House by Cherie Priest and Tara O’Connor City of Ghosts by Victoria Schwab Dividing Eden by Joelle Charbonneau Three Dark Crowns by Kendare Blake All That’s Left by Carrie Arcos The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo Bone Gap by Laura Ruby National Book Awards long list for Young People's Literature The Watsons go to Birmingham by Christopher Paul Curtis Ruth and the Green Book by Calvin Alexander Ramsey Mariam Sharma Hits The Road by Sheba Karim Saving June by Hannah Harrington The Devil You Know by Trish Doller Mare’s War by Tanita S. Davis Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon Let’s Get Lost by Adi Alsaid An Infinite Number of Parallel Universes by Randy Ribay The Disenchantments by Nina LaCour The After Life by Daniel Ehrenhaft We Were Here by Matt de la Pena Going Bovine by Libba Bray Seeing off the Johns by Rene S. Perez I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sanchez All The Wind in the World by Samantha Mabry A Fierce and Subtle Poison by Samantha Mabry Education of Margot Sanchez by Lilliam Rivera Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera The Memory of Light by Francisco X Stork Bordertown by Eric M. Esquival and Ramon Villalobos The Girl at Midnight by Melissa Grey More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Cordova Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope Perez Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood by Benjamin Alire Saenz Shadowshaper by Daniel Jose Older See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Eric and Kelly talk about the soap incident, then delve into great YA romances, must-read YA comics, and wrap up the show sharing the books they’re still planning to read before the summer ends. Sponsored by Seafire by Natalie C. Parker and Book Riot Insiders. Hey YA is available on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Play, and right here on Book Riot. Show Notes: I Am Still Alive by Kate Alice Marshall American Road Trip by Patrick Flores-Scott Foreshadow YA Fresh Ink by Lamar Giles Fake Blood by Whitney Gardner The dick soap thing To All The Boys I've Loved Before by Jenny Han Behind The Scenes by Dahlia Adler The Way You Make Me Feel by Maurene Goo Summer of Supernovas by Darcy Woods Everything Leads To You by Nina LaCour The Trouble with Destiny by Lauren Morrill The New Guy (And Other Senior Year Distractions) by Amy Spalding Three Sides of a Heart by Natalie C. Parker Chemistry Lessons by Meredith Goldstein Adaptation and Inheritance by Malinda Lo Loop by Karen Akins Through To You by Emily Hainsworth The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight by Jennifer E Smith Prison Island: A Graphic Memoir by Colleen Frakes Lumberjanes by Noelle Stevenson In Real Life by Cory Doctorow and Jen Wang The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang I Am Alfonso Jones by Tony Medina Scott Pilgrim vs. the World by Bryan O’Malley Paper Girls by Bryan Lee O’Malley Through The Woods by Emily Carroll The Cheerleaders by Kara Thomas Darius The Great Is Not Okay by Adib Khorram Here to Stay by Sara Farizan Wrong In All The Right Ways by Tiffany Brownlee See All the Stars by Kit Frick Contagion by Erin Bowman Bonnie and Clyde: Making of a Legend by Karen Blumenthal Proud: Young Readers Edition by Ibtihaj Muhammad See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Kelly and Eric discuss a disturbing call for censorship in South Carolina, offer up what their YA summer reading list for teens (and adults!) would look like, and discuss YA tie-in books to popular movies and television. Sponsored by The Edge of Over There by Shawn Smucker and The Art of Escaping by Erin Callahan. Hey YA is available on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Play, and right here on Book Riot. Show Notes: Notes From My Captivity by Kathy Parks Up To This Pointe by Jennifer Longo That's Not What Happened by Kody Keplinger Pulp by Robin Talley The Evolution of Claire by Tess Sharpe Win $500 worth of the best YA books of 2018 so far "Police Officers Challenge Books in South Carolina" For Every One by Jason Reynolds Dear Martin by Nic Stone Dare to Disappoint by Ozge Salmanci Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi How To Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less by Sarah Glidden American Panda by Gloria Chao This Land Is Our Land by Linda Barrett Osborne The Female of the Species of Mindy McGinnis All the Rage by Courtney Summers Tradition by Brendan Kiely The Wrong Side of Right by Jenn Marie Thorne Mean Girls by Micol Ostow Who In The World Is Carmen Sandiego? by Rebecca Tinker The Race to Chimney Rock by Jesse Wiley Danger At The Haunted Gate by Jesse Wiley Tyrell by Coe Booth See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Eric and Kelly talk about their reading habits while traveling, what 2018 YA books you have missed so far this year and need to pick up ASAP, and offer up books that are itching for a great companion. Bonus: get ready to Book Club with Hey YA! Hey YA is sponsored by Legendary by Stephanie Garber and Blood Will Out by Jo Treggiari. Hey YA is available on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Play, and right here on Book Riot. Show Notes: Jack of Hearts (and Other Parts) by LC Rosen All That I Can Fix by Crystal Chan What If It's Us by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera Anger is a Gift by Mark Oshiro A Conspiracy of Stars by Olivia A. Cole The Disturbed Girl’s Dictionary by NoNieqa Ramos This Tiny Perfect World by Lauren Gibaldi Americanized: Rebel Without a Green Card by Sara Saedi Ship It by Britta Lundin Devils Unto Dust by Emma Berquist Your Robot Dog Will Die by Arin Greenwood Speak: The Graphic Novel by Laurie Halse Anderson and Emma Carroll Heart of Iron by Ashley Poston Mary’s Monster: Love, Madness, and How Mary Shelley Created Frankenstein by Lita Judge Everything Leads To You by Nina LaCour The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness The Lake Effect by Erin McCahan Shipbreaker by Paulo Bacigalupi The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevado Mirror in the Sky by Aditi Khorana Tyrell by Coe Booth See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Eric and Kelly highlight some of the latest news in the world of YA, talk about where the books about teens in the military are (and are not), and wrap up the show talking about great adult characters they love in YA fiction.
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Shownotes: Here To Stay by Sara Farizan Puddin' by Julie Murphy Hull Metal Girls by Emily Skruskie Habibi by Hadeel al-Massari and Nyala Ali 2018 BEA Editor's YA Buzz Titles Publisher's Marketplace Buzz Titles The Hate U Give release date 2018 Audie Award winners Fallen Angels series by Walter Dean Myers Sunrise Over Fallujah by Walter Dean Myers I’ll Meet You There by Heather Demetrios Meet Me Here by Bryan Bliss Things a Brother Knows by Dana Reinhardt Rites of Passage by Joy N. Hensley The Academy by Katie Sise Something Like Normal by Trish Doller The Impossible Knife of Memory by Laurie Halse Anderson Personal Effects by EM Kokie In Honor by Jessi Kirby "Awesome Older Adults in YA Literature" piece from 2017 Under the Mermaid Angel by Martha Moore The Reece Malcolm List and Ink Is Thicker Than Water by Amy Spalding I Believe in a Thing Called Love and The Way You Make Me Feel by Maurene Goo Little and Lion and Finding Yvonne by Brandy Colbert Simon vs. the Homosapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli The Last Summer of the Garrett Girls by Jessica Spotswood This Tiny Perfect World by Lauren Gibaldi Scarlett Epstein Hates It Here by Anna Breslaw An Infinite Number of Parallel Universes by Randy Ribay Mare's War by Tanita S. Davis The Selection (series) by Kiera Cass Brass by Xhenet Aliu We Are Okay by Nina LaCour Not a Drop to Drink by Mindy McGinnis See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Eric and Kelly talk good books about mental illness, dream author duos and the books they’d create, and wrap up the show highlighting some of their summer TBR titles. Sponsored by Neanderthal Opens the Door To The Universe by Preston Norton and Monday’s Note Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson, presented by Epic Reads. Hey YA is available on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Play, and right here on Book Riot. Show Notes: Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli Mirage by Somiya Daud Photographic: The Life of Graciela Iturbide by Isabel Quintero and Zeke Pena I Stop Somewhere by TE Carter "Twitter 10 years ago" search Don't Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start The Conversation About Mental Health edited by Kelly Jensen The Memory of Light by Francisco X Stork The First Time She Drowned by Kerry Kletter Crazy by Amy Reed My Heart and Other Black Holes by Jasmine Warga Queens of Geek by Jen Wilde The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness This Impossible Light by Lily Myers A World Without You by Beth Revis When Reason Breaks by Cindy L. Rodriguez Highly Illogical Behavior by John Corey Whaley Something Like Normal by Trish Doller Life Inside My Mind edited by Jessica Burkhart What If It's Us by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera Burn for Burn (trilogy) by Jenny Han and Siobhan Vivian Roomies by Sara Zarr and Tara Altebrando My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, Jodi Meadows Tell Me No Lies by Adele Griffin Here To Stay by Sara Farizan Contagion by Erin Bowman Our Stories Our Voices: 21 YA Authors Get Real About Injustice, Empowerment, and Growing Up Female in America edited by Amy Reed. Hullmetal Girls by Emily Skruskie Jack of Hearts and Other Parts by Lev AC Rosen The Unfortunates by Kim Liggett Give Me Your Hand by Megan Abbott See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Kelly and Eric talk about a great article about the development of YA literature following the history of the teen culture, highlight awesome YA books set in the outdoors, and offer up even more great YA by and about Asian Americans. Sponsored by Furyborn by Claire LeGrand and Chemistry Lessons by Meredith Goldstein. Hey YA is available on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Play, and right here on Book Riot. Shownotes: The Disturbed Girl's Dictionary by NoNieqa Ramos Monday's Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson Blood Water Paint by Joy McCullough The Girl In The Grove by Eric Smith Contagion by Erin Bowman Finding Yvonne by Brandy Colbert "How Young Adult Literature Blossomed With Teen Culture" article Wildlife The Distance Between Lost and Found by Kathryn Holmes Valley Girls by Sarah Nicole Lemon When I Am Through With You by Stephanie Kuehn The Island I Am Still Alive by Kate Alice Marshall Lumberjanes A Thousand Beginnings and Endings edited by Ellen Oh and Elsie Chapman You Bring the Distant Near by Mitali Perkins Born Confused by Tanuja Desai Hidier When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandya Menon Tina’s Mouth: An Existential Comic Diary by Keshni Kashyap and illustrated by Mari Araki Chasing Shadows by Swati Avasthi A Land of Permanent Goodbyes by Atia Abawi The Serpent’s Secret by Sayantani DasGupta American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Eric and Kelly talk about indie bookstores that do YA lit really well, explore the growth of YA thrillers over the last few years, and finally, highlight a bunch of great books to read in honor of Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month. Sponsored by Summer Constellations by Alisha Sevigny from KCP Loft and Bookish Boyfriends: A Date With Darcy by Tiffany Schmidt from Amulet. Hey YA is available on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Play, and right here on Book Riot. Show notes: Honor Code by Kiersi Burkhart Down and Across by Arvin Ahmadi Amal Unbound by Aisha Saeed Written In The Stars by Aisha Saeed The Red Balloon Bookshop The Girl With The Red Balloon by Katherine Locke Fountain Bookstore Read Between The Lynes Women and Children First BBGB Books Anderson's Bookshop Wild Rumpus Books Defining Thriller vs. Mystery "Mourn The Fall of the Mall" by Sarah Kendzior Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn We Were Liars by E. Lockhart Pasadena by Sherri L. Smith A Line In The Dark by Malinda Lo Stephanie Kuehn's books Fake ID by Lamar Giles Endangered by Lamar Giles Lois Duncan's unsolved mystery Window by Amelia Brunskill Sadie by Courtney Summers Damage Done by Amanda Panitch As Red as Blood by Salla Simukka The Fever by Megan Abbott Conversion by Katherine Howe The Girl Who Fell by Shannon M. Parker The Way You Make Me Feel by Maurene Goo Control by Lydia Kang Under a Painted Sky by Stacey Lee Want by Cindy Pon The Girl From The Well by Rin Chupeco American Panda by Gloria Chao North Of Beautiful by Justina Chen Forest of a Thousand Lanterns by Julie Dao The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang In Real Life by Cory Doctorow and Jen Wang Picture Us In The Light by Kelly Loy Gilbert Noteworthy by Riley Redgate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Eric and Kelly talk about YA books in verse for National Poetry Month, dig into Frankenstein and why it has landed so well in the YA world, and highlight some of the titles on their spring TBR lists. Sponsored by What The Night Sings By Vesper Stamper. Hey YA is available on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Play, and right here on Book Riot. Show Notes: Tiffany Sly Lives Here Now by Dana L Davis Here To Stay by Sara Farizan A Room Away From The Wolves by Nova Ren Suma Devils Unto Dust by Emma Berquist The Astonishing Color of After by Emily XR Pan In Her Skin by Kim Savage Last Seen Leaving and White Rabbit by Caleb Roehrig 15 book mystery giveaway! 100 Must-Read YA Books in Verse The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds The Watch That Ends the Night by Alan Wolfe Blood Water Paint by Joy McCullough Family by Micol Ostow Bull by David Elliott A Time To Dance by Padma Venkatraman Audition by Stasia Ward Kehoe brown girl dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson Skyscraping by Cordelia Jensen Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 40 Frankenstein Covers (the 2011 Puffin one, especially) Hideous Love by Stephanie Hemphill Man Made Boy by Jon Skovron This Dark Endeavor by Kenneth Oppel This Monstrous Thing by Mackenzi Lee Boy Robot by Simon Curtis The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein by Kiersten White Mary’s Monster: Love, Madness, and How Mary Shelley Created Frankenstein by Lita Judge Bookish Boyfriends by Tiffany Schmidt Puddin’ by Julie Murphy From Twinkle with Love by Sandhya Menon Ship It by Britta Lundin Stay Sweet by Siobhan Vivian Anger is a Gift by Mark Oshiro Last Summer of the Garrett Girls by Jessica Spotswood See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Eric and Kelly discuss the ways graphic novels and YA have excellent crossover appeal, consider why we don’t see enough animals in YA fiction, and round out the show talking about baseball (and books, obviously).
Sponsored by Rebel With A Cupcake by Anna Mainwaring from KCP Loft and Brightly Burning by Alexa Donne.
Show notes:
Reading Emergency Contact by Mary HK Choi Summer Bird Blue by Akemi Dawn Bowman The Wicker King by K. Ancrum Behind The Cover Design of The Wicker King Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson and Emily Carroll Monster by Walter Dean Myers and Guy A. Sims Giant Days by Non Pratt Runaways by Christopher Golden Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs Wire and Nerve by Marissa Meyer Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr Uglies: Shay’s Story by Scott Westerfeld Cirque Du Freak by Darren Shan Tantalize by Cynthia Leitich Smith Batman by Marie Lu Miles Morales by Jason Reynolds Wonder Woman by Leigh Bardugo Squirrel Girl by Shannon and Dean Hale Lumberjanes by Mariko Tamaki Lois Lane: Fallout by Gwenda Bond DC's new line of YA and Middle Grade comics Not a Drop to Drink by Mindy McGinnis Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Cordova North of Happy by Adi Alsaid Relish by Lucy Knisley The Belles by Dhonielle Clayton March by John Lewis The Astonishing Color of After by Emily XR Pan The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas Daughters Unto Devils by Amy Lukavics Where are the well-rounded animal characters? Rotten by Michael Northrop Your Robot Dog Will Die by Arin Greenwood Endangered by Eliot Schrefer Half Brother by Kenneth Oppel Ghetto Cowboy by G. Neri The New Guy and Other Senior Year Distractions by Amy Spalding Hot Pterodactyl Boyfriend by Alan Cumyn See No Color by Shannon Gibney A Season of Daring Greatly by Ellen Emerson White Heart of a Champion, Painting the Black, and High Heat by Carl Deuker Game Seven by Paul Volponi Center Field by Robert Lipsyte Stealing Parker by Miranda Kenneally The Comeback Season by Jennifer E. Smith (and yes, Kelly knows what she said about Wrigley Field is wrong -- its history of NOT being named after a corporation is a big deal) The historic Cubs win ESPN piece See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Eric and Kelly talk about the latest diversity numbers in YA lit from the CCBC along with the #KidLitWomen discussions around the web, YA books about teen change makers, and wrap up with a look at some great books to read for Women’s History Month on feminism. Sponsored by The Price Guide To The Occult by Leslye Walton and The Astonishing Color of After by Emily X.R. Pan. Shownotes: Finding Felicity by Stacey Kade Down and Across by Arvin Ahmadi The Radical Element edited by Jessica Spotswood 2017 CCBC Diversity Stats for Children’s Books CCBC Blog Post on 2017 #OwnVoices Children’s Books
KidLitWomen Post Round-Up
Edi Campbele on Black Girl Economics in YA Zetta Elliott’s 2017 MG and YA Titles By Black Authors Little and Lion by Brandy Colbert Akata Warrior by Nnedi Okorafor Siege of Shadows by Sarah Raughley The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier Little Brother by Cory Doctorow Destroy All Cars by Blake Nelson March trilogy by John Lewis The Rock and the River duology by Kekla Magoon This Side of Home by Reneé Watson The Inside of Out by Jenn Marie Thorne The Latte Rebellion by Sarah Jamila Stevenson Hate List by Jennifer Brown This Is How It Ends by Marieke Nijkamp Violent Ends edited by Shaun David Hutchinson Shooter by Walter Dean Myers That’s Not What Happened by Kody Keplinger Underwater by Marisa Reichart And We Stay by Jenny Hubbard Audacity by Melanie Crowder Badass Bygone Broads by Mackenzie Lee Bumped and Thumped by Megan McCafferty
NotYourPrincess: Voices of Native American Women by Lisa Charleyboy and Mary Beth Leatherdale
Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World by Penelope Bagieu Exquisite Corpse by Penelope Bagieu Americanized: Rebel Without a Green Card by Sara Saedi Wonder Women by Sam Maggs Fangirl’s Guide to the Galaxy by Sam Maggs Here We Are: Feminism for the Real World edited by Kelly Jensen Girls in Justice by Richard Ross Push Out: The Criminalization of Black Girls in School by Monique Morris Girls Incarcerated (Netflix Streaming) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Eric and Kelly talk about this year’s slate of Norton Award titles and titles of years past, then dig into the differences between YA and middle grade, explore authors who write in both categories, and top it all off by highlighting YA with younger teen protagonists. Sponsored by The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert and I Stop Somewhere by TE Carter. Shownotes The Astonishing Color of After by Emily XR Pan The Beauty That Remains by Ashley Woodfolk The Norton Awards list Alice Mary Norton (Andre Norton) Exo by Fonda Lee The Art of Starving by Sam J Miller Want by Cindy Pon September Girls by Bennett Madison Bone Gap by Laura Ruby Shadowshaper by Daniel José Older Dirty Wings by Sarah McCarry Love is the Drug by Alaya Dawn Johnson Glory O’Brien’s History of the Future by AS King Updraft by Fran Wilde Zeroboxer by Fonda Lee Fair Coin by Eugene Myers Seraphina by Rachel Hartman So Done by Paula Chase How To Make a Wish by Ashley Herring Blake Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World by Ashley Herring Blake Shug by Jenny Han A Boy Called Bat by Elana K. Arnold What Girls Are Made Of by Elana K. Arnold The Careful Undressing of Love by Corey Ann Haydu The Rules for Stealing Stars by Corey Ann Haydu The Someday Suitcase by Corey Ann Haydu The Girl in the Well is Me by Karen Rivers All That Was by Karen Rivers Forever or a Long Long Time by Caela Carter My Life With The Liars by Caela Carter The Crossover by Kwame Alexander Solo by Kwame Alexander Written In The Stars by Aisha Saeed Amal Unbound by Aisha Saeed The Dairy Queen by Catherine Gilbert Murdoch The Book of Boy by Catherine Gilbert Murdoch Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds Patina by Jason Reynolds Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi Furthermore by Tahereh Mafi Peas and Carrots by Tanita S. Davis A Short History of the Girl Next Door by Jared Reck Confessions of a High School Disaster: Chloe Snow’s Diary by Emma Chastain Book of a Thousand Days by Shannon Hale Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson Maresi by Maria Turtschaninoff Half Brother by Kenneth Oppel Estrella’s Quinceanara by Malin Alegria The Librarian of Auschwitz by Antonio Iturbe See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Eric and Kelly discuss the big YA winners at this year’s Youth Media Awards and dig into the (very wrong) New York Times piece about the lack of sex in YA books. Sponsored by The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert and Class of 2K18.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Eric and Kelly talk about the new think piece about the death of YA adaptations, highlight some excellent books from YA authors before they hit it big, and pick out some of their dream author imprints. Sponsored by Broken Beautiful Hearts by Kami Garcia from Fierce Reads.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Eric and Kelly talk about love stories for YA readers, dig into the whys and hows of music and its power in YA lit, and offer up YA book recommendations for the Read Harder challenge. Sponsored by Love, Hate, and Other Filters by Samira Ahmed and The Love Letters of Abelard & Lily by Laura Creedle.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Eric and Kelly discuss YA books from 10 years ago, talk about some of the most eye-catching YA book covers hitting shelves this year, and then share the books they wish had seen more love in this year’s deluge of “most anticipated” lists. Sponsored by The Cruel Prince by Holly Black and by OwlCrate.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Eric and Kelly share YA titles you should read based on your New Year’s Resolutions, dig into a positive NPR piece on teens and reading YA dystopia, and highlight what’s at the top of their January TBR. Sponsored by Meet Cute from HMH Teen and The Impossible Fortress by Jason Rekulak from Simon and Schuster.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Eric and Kelly talk about the recent pulling of THE HATE U GIVE from a Texas school district, YA anthologies are worthwhile reads, and how to be the best book gifter you can be. Sponsored by The Language of Thorns by Leigh Bardugo and The Language of Thorns by Leigh Bardugo (nope, not a typo!).See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Eric and Kelly discuss alternate format YA books, under-the-radar 2017 reads, and talk about why 1997 was a great year in pop culture (with book recs, of course). Sponsored by Not Now, Not Ever by Lily Anderson from Wednesday Books and the Shadow & Bone trilogy by Leigh Bardugo.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Eric and Kelly discuss YA books with older protagonists, dig into the first of this year’s “Best Of” lists, and highlight an upcoming online serial YA publication and other online spaces for reading YA short works. Sponsored by Turtles All The Way Down by John Green and OwlCrate.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Eric and Kelly talk about Malinda Lo’s annual LGBTQ YA data count, dig into the problem of the media’s take on “suicide” as a “trend” in YA, and highlight the embarrassing stories behind some favorite YA author AOL Instant Messenger names of yore. Sponsored by Turtles All The Way Down by John Green and OwlCrate.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Eric and Kelly share their tips and tricks for talking about YA with YA skeptics, talk about good and not-so-good "meets" pitches, and offer up YA horror recommendations. Sponsored by Sun Warrior by PC Cast from Wednesday BooksSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Eric and Kelly discuss YA authors who’ve successfully jumped genres, celebrity YA books, and dramatically read from Tyra Banks’s unfinished trilogy “Modelland.” Sponsored by Everything Must Go by Jenny Fran Davis from Wednesday Books, A Poison Dark and Drowning by Jessica Cluess from Random House, and Girls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust from Flatiron Books.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Eric and Kelly talk about what makes a book a "YA" book, what they do and don't want to see in an all-female film adaptation of LORD OF THE FLIES, and then they rave about upcoming fall YA to pick up.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Eric and Kelly talk about their first experiences reading YA and what adult authors they'd love to see pen a YA novel in this teaser episode of Hey YA.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.