What happened in YA last 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:
- What Would Fred Read? – What YA books would interest Fred Rogers?
- Share your Mock Printz (and other Mock YMA) Results With Us!
- #WontBeErased: Transgender Awareness Week and Day of Remembrance
- Read-a-Likes for Dumplin’ by Julie Murphy
Selected Lists:
- Quick Picks 2019
- Amazing Audiobooks 2019
- Great Graphic Novels for Teens 2019
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2019
Books & Reading
- David Levithan interviews Suzanne Collins on the 10th anniversary of the Hunger Games (from NYT)
- 15 YA Books From The ’80s And ’90s That Have Stood The Test Of Time (from BuzzFeed)
- A handful of YA authors who identify as trans, as nonbinary, or as gender nonconforming (from BookRiot)
- “Read Woke” Panel: Validating Girls’ Voices and Experiences from SLJ Summit 2018
- Some upcoming YA nonfiction (from BookRiot)
- YA Fantasy Favorites (from BookRiot)
Around the Web
- SLJ’s Diverse Books landing page, with links to all kinds of resources
- Need to refresh before the sequel comes out? Try Book Series Recaps, and also Recaptains
Movies & TV
- Hulu TV announces cast list for John Green’s Looking for Alaska
- Dumplin’ gets a movie tie-in edition cover ahead of Netflix film (from Hypable)
- With One Strong Word, ‘The Hate U Give’ Couldn’t Hold Its Tongue (From NYT)
- Possible movie of Samira Ahmed’s YA Novel Internment, (to be published March 19) (from Hollywood Reporter)
- 13 YA Books Being Made Into Movies That You Need to Read ASAP (from Rivited)
- The Hate U Give movie curriculum and discussion guides (from BazanED)
In the News
- 2018 National Book Awards for Young People’s Literature in Photos (from PW)
- The One Direction Fan-Fiction Novel That Became a Literary Sensation (from The Atlantic)
— Cathy Outten, currently reading In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan