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:
- Dark and Bright YA Fiction: Spotlight on Two Canadian Authors
- 2018 Hub Reading Challenge May Check-In
- Women in Comics: Star Wars
Lists of selected books from May:
- Quick Picks 2019
- Amazing Audiobooks 2019
- Great Graphic Novels for Teens 2019
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2019
Books & Reading
- 2018 Indies Choice and E.B. White Read-Aloud Award Winners Announced
- Register for the free virtual conference SLJTeenLive!, August 15
- Uglies/Pretties is getting a spin-off series: Impostors: Scott Westerfeld’s thrilling return to the Uglies universe
- Powerful and Authentic Teen Books About Depression to Better Understand the Illness
- 15 Latinx Authors You Really Need To Be Reading Right Now
- Why the new wave of East Asian authors is targeting YA
Movies & TV
- Looking for Alaska coming to Hulu as a miniseries
- A first photo from The Hate U Give
- Work is continuing on Chaos Walking movie coming in 2019
In the News
- When Cosby’s ‘Little Bill,’ Alexie and Asher are on the Shelf: What Should A Librarian Do?
- Diverse Books stats from CDC
- International Literacy Association’s (ILA) 2018 Choices Reading Lists Help Diversify Bookshelves
- Richard Peck dies at 84
— Cathy Outten, currently reading Saving Montgomery Sole by Mariko Tamaki