Month in Review: March 2019

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.  Selected list nominations are here!

At the Hub

Features:

• Riverdale Reads
• Nerds in Love: Book Recommendations
• #BFYA2020 Teen Feedback Session at Annual Conference in Washington D.C.
• 2019 Teens’ Top Ten Giveaway Now Open!
• 2019 Hub Reading Challenge – March Check-In

Selected Lists Nominations:

• Quick Picks 2020
  • March 5, March 12, March 19, March 26
• Amazing Audiobooks 2020
  • March 6, March 13, March 20, March 27
• Great Graphic Novels for Teens 2020
  • March 7, March 14, March 21, March 28
• Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020
  • March 8, March 15, March 22, March 29

Books & Reading

• Five questions for Laurie Halse Anderson (HornBook)
• Thanks to a viral musical that just opened on Broadway, Ned Vizzini’s 2004 novel is reaching a big new audience (NYT)
• The Burning by Laura Bates review – a tale of two witch-hunts (The Guardian)
• ‘My Brother’s Husband’: Young adult literature from Japan attracts a new global audience (The Japan Times)
• 50 More Must-Read YA Mysteries (BookRiot)

We Need Diverse Books

• A Librarian’s Guide To Finding Diverse Books Before They’re Published (& How To Nominate Them for LibraryReads) (BookRiot)
• CBCC published their yearly statistics on Children’s Books about People of Color and First/Native Nations and by People of Color and First/Native Nations Authors and Illustrators

Around the Web

• A Visual History of the American Public Library (CityLab)
• Readers can now vote in the Children’s and Teen Choice Book Awards,from the Children’s Book Council (CBC) and Every Child a Reader
• Something to decorate your library  STEM Role Models Posters

Audiobooks

• Brave girls in audiobooks (HornBook)
• Have Audiobooks, Will Travel (SLJ)

Movies & TV

• On The Books: ‘Between Shades of Gray’ prepares for big screen debut (EW)
• Divergent: the Hollywood Blockbuster that Failed Spectacularly (BookRiot)

In the News

• Campaigners hail ‘seismic shift’ in diversity of US children’s books (The Guardian)
• Dr. Seuss Books Can Be Racist, But Students Keep Reading Them (NPR)
  • Why I am Keeping Seuss Books (Intellectual Freedom Blog)
• Publication of “A Place for Wolves” Canceled Amid Criticism (SLJ)
  • Teen Fiction and the Perils of Cancel Culture (NYT)
  • A Review of a Book That Will Never Be Published, Thanks to the Young Adult Twitter Mob (Reason)
  • In Y.A., Where Is the Line Between Criticism and Cancel Culture? (The New Yorker)
• I’m Not Dirty: Why Calling Books “Clean” Is A Problem (BookRiot)
• The rise of young adult books with LGBTQ characters — and what’s next (NBC News)
• Authors voice alarm after sharp drop in sales of YA fiction (The Guardian)

 

— Cathy Outten, currently reading The Size of the Truth by Andrew Smith