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:
- Announcing YALSA’s 2019 Selected Lists: A 2020 Update
- A Morris Award Reflection
- Books to Beat Boredom on School Snow Days
- Share Your Mock YMA Results!
Selected Lists Nominations:
- 2020 nominations coming in March!
Books & Reading
- YMA awards are announced, Poet X wins the Printz Award
- Book review: With Annie Bloom, Spokane YA novelist Chris Crutcher finds a new voice (Spokane’s The Spokesman)
- ‘Hold Still’ Author Nina LaCour Talks To Jandy Nelson About The Enduring Relevance Of Her Debut Novel About Teenage Suicide (Bustle)
- 32 Big Books that YA Fans Can’t Wait for in 2019 (Goodreads)
- We Need Diverse Books announces their Walter Award winners (WNDB)
- Printz outliers, dark horses in the race (pre-award announcement) (SLJ)
Around the Web
- Leigh Bardugo Returns to Ravka in Her New Series (Author interview at Goodreads)
- Karen M. McManus Takes Readers Inside Her Latest YA Thriller (Author interview at Goodreads)
- Need a way to track your reading? Try the Bigger, Badder, 2019 Book Tracking Spreadsheet (Bookriot)
- Our Favorite Fan Art from Neal Shusterman’s Arc of Scythe Series (Riveted)
Audiobooks
Movies & TV
- Leigh Bardugo’s Grishaverse Novels coming on Netflix (Deadline Hollywood)
In the News
- YA fiction that focuses on indigenous peoples’ stories (Baltimore’s Voice)
- ‘Warsha’ introduces Arab illustrators to Asian society (Gulf Today)
- An example of diversity in children’s lit making its way through the system (UNLV)
- The last YA taboo? Religion Is as Important as Ever: Some thoughts about including religion in the campus/young adult diversity discourse.(Inside Higher Ed)
— Cathy Outten, currently reading Bridge of Clay – Markus Zusak