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Great Graphic Novels (#GGN2020) Nominees Round Up, July 18 Edition

Published July 18, 2019

Click here to see all of the current Great Graphic Novels nominees along with more information about the list and past years’ selections.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer, vol. 1: High School is Hell created by Joss Whedon; written by Jordie Bellaire; illustrated by Dan Mora; colored by Raul Angulo
Boom! Studios
Publication Date: May 2019
ISBN: 9781684153572

High School Is Hell collects the first four volumes of a rebooted Buffy the Vampire Slayer for Boom! Studios. The reboot uses the actor likenesses and Joss Whedon characters, but imagines them in high school in 2019, rather than 1997. Willow is out, Xander is on tumblr, and Cordelia is… nice. The writer has room to play with plot and timelines and the various ways our culture has changed in the last twenty years, but underneath it’s the same Scooby Gang, nursing crushes and slaying demons.

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Quick Picks for Reluctant Readers (#QP2020) Nominees Round Up, July 16 Edition

Published July 16, 2019

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Keeper of the Bees by Meg Kassel
Entangled: Teen
Publication Date: September 4, 2018
ISBN: 978-1640634084

Keeper of the Bees by Meg Kassel is a companion novel to Black Bird of the Gallow, but it can be read as a stand-alone. The novel returns to Ms. Kassel’s world of harbingers, beekeepers, and strawmen. Keeper of the Bees is a story about a centuries old beekeeper who was cursed when he was eighteen and the girl who actually sees him, not just the monster he’s become.

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Best Fiction for Young Adults (#BFYA2020) Nominees Round Up, July 12 Edition

Published July 12, 2019

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You Must Not Miss by Katrina Leno
Little, Brown / Hachette
Publication Date: April 23, 2019
ISBN: 978-03164497799

In order to escape her broken home life and her ostracization at school by her ex-best friend Allison and Allison’s boyfriend Brandon, Magpie writes in her yellow notebook about a perfect world called Near. But when she discovers she has the ability to make Near real, Magpie uses Near to get revenge on those who wronged her, including her family, Allison, and Brandon.

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Great Graphic Novels (#GGN2020) Nominees Round Up, July 11 Edition

Published July 11, 2019

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The Avant-Guards, vol. 1 by Carly Usdin and Noah Hayes
Boom! Studios
ISBN: 978-1684153670
Publication Date: September 3, 2019

When Charlie transfers to The Georgia O’Keefe College for Arts and Subtle Dramatics, she thought she was done with basketball and the pressures of college athletics. Struggling to fit in and feel comfortable in a strange new environment, the last thing she wants is the added pressures of basketball on top of everything else. She doesn’t count on Liv, the passionate and exuberant basketball player determined to start a women’s league at O’Keefe. With Liv’s drive and help from the other quirky yet welcoming members of the team, Charlie realizes that this squad might not stress her out like the previous team she fled in the past. Also, She may have found the kind of friends she was looking for—and maybe even a new girlfriend.

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Amazing Audiobooks (#AA2020) Nominees Round Up, July 10 Edition

Published July 10, 2019

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Shout by Laurie Halse Anderson; narrated by the author
Viking Books for Young Readers / Listening Library
Publication Date: March 12, 2019
ISBN: 978-1984882394

Laurie Halse Anderson is one of the strongest voices in young adult literature, and her free verse poetry memoir weaves the story of a difficult childhood, the publication of Speak and its reception by teens everywhere, and her continued push for change and empathy in today’s toxic world. Her poems are nuanced and no-holds-barred, poignant and personal, witty and wry.

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Quick Picks for Reluctant Readers (#QP2020) Nominees Round Up, July 9 Edition

Published July 9, 2019

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It’s Trevor Noah: Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Adapted for Young Readers) by Trevor Noah
Delacorte Press
April 9th 2019
ISBN: 9780525582175

Trevor Noah, host of the Daily Show, recounts his childhood growing up in South Africa, shortly after the end of Apartheid. He was born of a black mother and white father, which was an illegal relationship under Apartheid. He grows up not really fitting in anywhere. With his usual combination of humor and deep insight into humanity’s senseless behavior, Noah gives an uncomfortable piece of history a human face.

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The YALSA Committee Form is Now Available!

Published July 9, 2019

Have you been following the nominees for Quick Picks, Amazing Audiobooks, Great Graphic Novels, and Best Fiction for Young Adults on the Hub? As you’ve likely seen, the blogging teams for each of those lists have been working hard reading, writing, and sharing posts about titles that have been nominated for each of these selected lists.

And maybe you’ve thought, “I want to be on one of those teams next year!”

If that sounds like you then get excited! Because your time has come!

Even though the final lists won’t be out until the end of the year, we’re already gearing up for next year’s blogging teams. The volunteer form is live — available here! Please complete this form by August 1, 2019.

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Foodie Companions for With the Fire On High

Published July 8, 2019

2019 Printz Winner for The Poet X, Elizabeth Acevedo’s much anticipated sophomore novel With the Fire On High, is a book about embracing your passions, and charting your future. Emoni Santiago, an Afro-Boricua high school senior has had a gift for cooking since she was young. She and her toddler daughter live with her supportive grandmother, but Emoni needs to decide where she wants to go to school and what she wants to do after graduation. When her school offers a new class, “Culinary Arts: Spain Immersion,” Emoni has a chance to immerse herself in cooking in a way that she can start to see what is possible with her gift.

Foodie readers will swoon over Acevedo’s writing on food and cooking, and it will leave them hungering for more. Here are a few delicious titles about food and cooking to pair With the Fire On High:

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Best Fiction for Young Adults (#BFYA2020) Nominees Round Up, July 5 Edition

Published July 5, 2019

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Don’t Date Rosa Santos by Nina Moreno
Disney-Hyperion / Hachette Books
Publication date: May 14, 2019
ISBN: 978-1368039703

Rosa Santos, like her mother and grandmother before her, has been cursed by the sea: Any man she loves is doomed to die. So, Rosa has her future planned out: a university with a study-abroad program to Cuba so she can reconnect with her heritage. Instead, the program gets cancelled, her town’s harbor is under threat, and a cute boy with a boat captures her attention. With everyone counting on her, can Rosa pull everything together in time?

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Great Graphic Novels (#GGN2020) Nominees Round Up, July 4 Edition

Published July 4, 2019

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Surviving the City, vol. 1 by Tasha Spillett and Natasha Donovan
HighWater Press
Publication Date: November 30, 2018
ISBN: 9781553797562

Miikwan and Dez are best friends, each grappling with family issues; Miikwan’s mom is missing and Dez’s beloved grandmother is ill. When Dez disappears one night, Miikwan fears that she has become one of the murdered and missing Indigenous women of their community. Miikwan, protected by the spirits of missing women, participates in a march to honor the stolen sisters of their community. There, Miikwan finally finds Dez, safe.

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