Month in Review: September 2020

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 linked here!

At the Hub

Features:

• 2020 Teens’ Top Ten Voting Open
• 2021 Teens’ Top Ten Book Groups Application Open

Selected Lists Nominations:

• Quick Picks 2021 (See all nominees)
  • Sept 1, Sept 8, Sept 15, Sept 22, Sept 29
• Amazing Audiobooks 2021 (See all nominees)
  • Sept 2, Sept 9, Sept 16, Sept 23, Sept 30
• Great Graphic Novels for Teens 2021 (See all nominees)
  • Sept 9, Sept 10, Sept 17, Sept 24
• Best Fiction for Young Adults 2021 (See all nominees)
  • Sept 4, Sept 11, Sept 18, Sept 25

Books & Reading

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• Top 100 Most Banned and Challenged Books: 2010-2019 (ALA OIF)
• 10 Great October 2020 Ya Releases To Tbr (BookRiot)
• Vampires Never Get Old Authors Talk Favorite Vampires (Fierce Reads)
• The 2020 National Book Awards Longlist: Young People’s Literature (The New Yorker)
• More Than Voting: 6 Election-Themed YA Novels Tackle Relationships and Political Engagement (SLJ)

We Need Diverse Books

• Books to Add to Your TBR for Latinx Heritage Month (Fierce Reads)
• 9 Classics Of Queer Ya Literature (BookRiot)

In the Movies (and TV)

• Hello, Goodbye, And Everything In Between Being Adapted Into A Film! (The Booked Shelf)

In the News

• Tomi Adeyemi -the 100 Most Influential People Of 2020 (Time)
• For Banned Books Week, I read the country’s 10 most challenged books. The gay penguins did not corrupt me (Washington Post)

— Cathy Outten, currently reading How it all Blew Up by Arvin Ahmadi