Month In Review: October 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:

• Down With Love: Romance-Free Y.A. Books
• 2019 Teens’ Top Ten Titles Announced

Selected Lists Nominations:

• Quick Picks 2020 (See all current nominees)
  • Oct 1, Oct 8, Oct 15, Oct 22, Oct 29
• Amazing Audiobooks 2020 (See all current nominees)
  • Oct 2, Oct 9, Oct 16, Oct 23, Oct 31
• Great Graphic Novels for Teens 2020 (See all current nominees)
  • Oct 3, Oct 10, Oct 17, Oct 24, Oct 31
• Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020 (See all current nominees) 
  • Oct 4, Oct 11, Oct 18, Oct 25, 

Books & Reading

• SLJ’s Reviews of the 2019 National Book Award Finalists in Young People’s Literature
• 20 Must-Read YA Books with Disabled Characters (BookRiot)
• 2019 Teens’ Top Ten Titles (YALSA)
• Title and Cover for New Hunger Games Novel Revealed (PW)
• New Imprint for Graphic Novels Aims to Increase the Presence of Queer Authors (NYT)
• The 29 Debut Novels of 2019 That You Need to Read (EpicReads)

We Need Diverse Books

• Welcome to “Read Woke” (SLJ)
• Young adult literature has a lot to say about social justice (and we all need to hear it) (America Magazine)
• Jason Reynolds is on a Mission (NYT)
• Every Child Can Become a Lover of Books (The Atlantic)
• Latinx Book Club On Twitter Reading ‘The Grief Keeper’ For Latinx Heritage Month (Forbes)
• All-School Read Makes Impact: Book by Young Immigrants Changes Perceptions at Wisconsin High School (SLJ)

Around the Web

• Sex, Nudity, and Satanism Are Why Parents Believe In School Book Censorship (BookRiot)
• Give Kids Good Books And They’ll Love Reading Forever (HuffPost)
• Five questions for Rainbow Rowell (Horn Book)
• The Best Young Adult Authors: A Non-Definitive List (BookRiot)

Audiobooks

• Wil Wheaton to record new audiobook of John Green’s Looking for Alaska (PW)

Movies & TV

• SHADOW AND BONE Cast Photo Revealed (BookRiot)
• Michael B. Jordan’s Outlier Society & Warner Bros Acquire Rena Barron Novel Trilogy ‘Kingdom Of Souls’ (Deadline)

In the News

• Richard Jackson, Who Had an Ear for Children’s Books, Dies at 84 (NYT)
• “Dear Martin” author responds to book removal from Col. Co. curriculum (CBS Local News)

— Cathy Outten, currently reading Only Ashes Remain by Rebecca Schaeffer