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:
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
- 48 Highly Anticipated YA Novels for the Rest of 2020 (GoodReads)
- Laugh Out Loud With These 16 Funny YA Books (SLJ)
- Hachette Children’s Group secures two YA novels-in-verse from Dean Atta (Bookseller)
- These 10 Manga Like Naruto Are Giving You Heroes To Root For (BookRiot)
- An Uncomfortable Truth: 12 books that discuss the 19th Amendment and the limits of women’s suffrage (SLJ)
- How Librarians Helped Invent The YA Category Of Books (BookRiot)
We Need Diverse Books
- New and Forthcoming Kids’ and YA Books by Black Creators (PW)
- Ayana Gray’s new YA book trilogy combines ‘monsters, mythos, and #BlackGirlMagic’ (EW)
In the Movies (and TV)
- Renée Watson’s ‘Piecing Me Together’ Novel Lands Film Adaptation at Warner Horizon (Variety)
- Is Twilight Really That Bad? Why The Movies Got So Much Hate (ScreenRant)
- HBO Max drops raucous trailer for teen road trip comedy Unpregnant (AV Club)
- Paramount Pictures Developing Elsie Chapman’s ‘Caster’ Novel as Film (Variety)
- Universal Teams With LeBron James And Maverick Carter’s SpringHill On Adaptation Of ‘New Kid’ (Deadline)
In the News
- YALL Fest becomes YALL Write online this year
- Children’s & Teen Choice Book Awards now in the Fall! The 2020 finalists have been announced and voting will begin on September 14
— Cathy Outten, currently reading Darius the Great Deserves Better