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:
Selected Lists Nominations:
- Quick Picks 2021 (See all nominees)
- Amazing Audiobooks 2021 (See all nominees)
- Great Graphic Novels for Teens 2021 (See all nominees)
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2021 (See all nominees)
Books & Reading
- Five Young Adult SFF/H Novels About Women Reclaiming Their Identities (Tor.com)
- The Baby-Sitters Club Changed YA—Now, YA Is Changing BSC (Parade)
- Spring 2021 Children’s Sneak Previews (PW)
- Using #Bookstagram to Enhance the Library (Knowledge Quest AASL)
- Add Some 2021 YA Books To Your TBR Now (BookRiot)
We Need Diverse Books
- 8 Nonfiction Young Adult Reads on Justice and Freedom (BookRiot)
- Diversity in Sci Fi Is Important. Here’s How We Write That Future. (WNDB)
- Children’s literature as ‘seed work’ (PennToday)
In the Movies (and TV)
- ‘The Baby-Sitter’s Club’ on Netflix: TV Review (Variety)
- His Dark Materials Season Two Trailer Features 100 Percent More Andrew Scott (Vulture)
In the News
- Texas Teen Book Festival To Go Virtual (Patch)
- Los Angeles Times Book Prizes Winners Announced YA title: “When the Ground is Hard,” (LA TImes)
- Artists and Writers Warn of an ‘Intolerant Climate.’ Reaction Is Swift. (NYT)
- Everything Is the Hunger Games Now (OneZero – Medium)
- Congressman John Lewis Couldn’t Get a Library Card in 1956. It Changed Everything (Inc.)
— Cathy Outten, currently reading Sigh, Gone by Phuc Tran