What happened in YA this month? Here is a quick round up of featured posts on The Hub and other links to keep you up to date when collecting for your teens.
At the Hub
Features:
- Women in Comics: Fairy Tales
- Teens’ Top Ten Giveaway
- Hub Reading Challenge April Check-In
- 2018 Teens’ Top Ten Nominees Announced!
- 2018 Teen Read Week™ Initiative Launched!
- YA books set in New Orleans
Selected Lists from April:
- Quick Picks 2019
- Amazing Audiobooks 2019
- Great Graphic Novels for Teens 2019
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2019
- April 13, April 20, April 27
- Teens can give feedback on Best Fiction at ALA in New Orleans
Books & Reading
- PBS released their list of America’s 100 most-loved novels before the premier of their new show The Great American Read. Not surprisingly, many YA titles show up on this list (including The Book Thief, Hatchet, Ghost, and Looking for Alaska)!
- The Hunger Games books get 10th Anniversary special treatment
- Cover reveal and an excerpt from Dry by Neal and Jarrod Shusterman coming this October
- Hypable’s YA book releases for April 2018, including titles by Veronica Roth, Melissa De la Cruz, and the Simon sequel: Leah on the Offbeat, from Becky Albertalli
- Cover reveal for Leigh Bardugo’s King of Scars coming January 2019
Graphic Novels & Comics
- James Comey is getting his own comic book of his “origin story”
- 12 Queer Webcomics You Can Read For Free Right Now some of which have been published in physical form for your collection needs
Movies & TV
- Wicked Deep bought by Netflix
- A Court of Thorns and Roses coming to the big screen
- To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before coming to Netflix this summer
In the News
- Audiofile’s Sync started up again last week, if you haven’t participated before, jump in now for two free YA audiobooks each week all summer long
- The Office for Intellectual Freedom released the Top 10 list of most challenged books for 2017 Unfortunately, not surprisingly, many YA titles grace this list
- An opinion piece on why YA literature gives her hope
- An interview with Michael Cart in the Los Angeles Review of Books
- Teen Read Week site is up
- LGBTQ+ Diversity In YA Novels Is Getting Better, But Queer Girls Are Still Being Left Behind
— Cathy Outten, currently reading The Journey of Little Charlie by Christopher Paul Curtis