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:
- 2020 Best Fiction for Young Adults List Announced
- YA Nonfiction for New Year’s Resolutions!
- YALSA announces 2020 Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers
- YALSA names 2020 Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults
- 2020 Great Graphic Novels for Teens List Announced
Selected Lists Nominations:
- Quick Picks 2021 (See all 2020 nominees)
- New nominees coming in March!
- Amazing Audiobooks 2021 (See all 2020 nominees)
- New nominees coming in March!
- Great Graphic Novels for Teens 2021 (See all 2020 nominees)
- New nominees coming in March!
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2021 (See all 2020 nominees)
- New nominees coming in March!
Books & Reading
- 2020 Walter Awards (We Need Diverse Books)
- Disinformation and the Sex-Ed Wars (Intellectual Freedom Blog)
- The Match That Lit the Barrels: Uglies, 15 Years Later (BookRiot)
- Graphic Novels Break Through at the 2020 Youth Media Awards (SLJ)
- 20 Books We Can’t Wait For You to Read in 2020 (Riveted)
- January’s Debut YA Authors on Their New Year’s Resolutions
- Our Favorite Books of the Decade (I read YA)
We Need Diverse Books
- 11 Contemporary Diverse Novels for Middle Grade Readers (Brightly)
- 10 of the Best Latinx Young Adult Books of 2019 (Hip Latina)
Movies & TV
In the News
- Americans visited their local libraries more than they went to the movies in 2019, new survey shows (Masslive)
- Jerry Craft, Kadir Nelson win honors for children’s books (Washington Post)
- Press Release: Jason Reynolds Named New National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature (DC Line)
— Cathy Outten, currently reading Where the World Ends by Geraldine McCaughrean