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:
- 2020 Nonfiction Award Winner: An Interview with Rex Ogle on Free Lunch
- Suggest a Title for 2021 Selected Lists
Selected Lists Nominations:
- Quick Picks 2021 (See all nominees)
- New nominees coming in March!
- Amazing Audiobooks 2021 (See all nominees)
- New nominees coming in March!
- Great Graphic Novels for Teens 2021 (See all nominees)
- New nominees coming in March!
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2021 (See all nominees)
- New nominees coming in March!
Books & Reading
- View the YMA awards presentation (YouTube)
- Seven YA Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books to Read this February (SYFYWire)
- (WH)Y A(N) Anthology: On the Rise and Reach of YA Anthologies (BookRiot)
- Five Questions for A.S. King about Dig. (Horn Book)
- The Best Young Adult Books to Read This Winter (PRH)
We Need Diverse Books
- 40 best African American books, according to the NAACP (NBC News)
- Where is the Diversity in Publishing? The 2019 Diversity Baseline Survey Results (The Open Book Blog)
- Not Quite Banned: Soft Censorship That Makes LGBTQIA+ Stories Disappear (SLJ)
Movies & TV
- ‘More Happy Than Not’ YA Series Adaptation In Works At HBO Max From eOne & Creative Engine Entertainment (Deadline)
- Re-Watching To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before Has Become a Form of Self-Care for Adults (Oprah Magazine)
In the News
- Barnes & Noble pulls controversial ‘Diverse Editions’ campaign after backlash against ‘tone-deaf’ redesigned book covers (Business Insider)
- Tennessee Becomes Second State to Propose ‘Parental Review Boards’ for Public Libraries (Publisher’s Weekly)
- Why Author Jason Reynolds Writes For The Youngest Generation (Essence)
— Cathy Outten, currently reading Rules for Vanishing by Kate Alice Marshall