Tag: Month in Review

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!

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Selected Lists Nominations:

• Quick Picks 2021 (See all nominees)
  • Nov 3, Nov 10, Nov 17, Nov 24, 
• Amazing Audiobooks 2021 (See all nominees)
  • Nov 4, Nov 11, Nov 18, 
• Great Graphic Novels for Teens 2021 (See all nominees)
  • Nov 5, Nov 12, Nov 19, Nov 26, 
• Best Fiction for Young Adults 2021 (See all nominees)
  • Nov 6, Nov 13, Nov 20, Nov 27, 

Continue reading Month in Review: November 2020

Month in Review: October 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 here!

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Features:

• 2020 Teens’ Top Ten Announced

Selected Lists Nominations:

• Quick Picks 2021 (See all nominees)
  • Oct 6, Oct 13, Oct 20, Oct 27
• Amazing Audiobooks 2021 (See all nominees)
  • Oct 7, Oct 14, Oct 21, Oct 28
• Great Graphic Novels for Teens 2021 (See all nominees)
  • Oct 8, Oct 15, Oct 22, Oct 29
• Best Fiction for Young Adults 2021 (See all nominees)
  • Oct 2, Oct 9, Oct 16, Oct 23, Oct 30

Continue reading Month in Review: October 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!

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Features:

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

Continue reading 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.

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Features:

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

Continue reading Month in Review: August 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 here!

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Features:

Continue reading Month in Review: July 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 here!

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Continue reading Month in Review: June 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 here!

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Continue reading Month in Review: May 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.

Features:

• 2020 Hub Reading Challenge – April Check-In
• 2020 Teens’ Top Ten Nominees Announced

Selected Lists Nominations:

• Quick Picks 2021 (See all nominees)
  • April 7, April 14, April 21, April 30,
• Amazing Audiobooks 2021 (See all nominees)
  • April 1, April 8, April 15, April 22, April 29
• Great Graphic Novels for Teens 2021 (See all nominees)
  • April 2, April 9, April 16, April 23, April 30
• Best Fiction for Young Adults 2021 (See all nominees)
  • April 3, April 10, April 17, April 24,  

Continue reading Month in Review: April 2020

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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

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• 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

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:

• Booklist: New LGBTQIAP+ Nonfiction for Pride Month
• 2019 Hub Reading Challenge June Check-In

Selected Lists Nominations:

• Quick Picks 2020 (See all current nominees)
  • June 4, June 11, June 18, June 25
• Amazing Audiobooks 2020 (See all current nominees)
  • June 5, June 12, June 19, June 27
• Great Graphic Novels for Teens 2020 (See all current nominees)
  • June 6, June 13, June 20, June 27
• Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020 (See all current nominees) 
  • June 7, June 14, June 21, June 28

Books & Reading

• Sidekicks Kicking Down the Door Article about a new book about YA literature embracing the story of the sidekick (UIndy360)
• 15 Young Adult books for readers of all ages, from The Hate U Give to Symptoms of Being Human (The Independent)
• See New Books from Da Chen, Alan Gratz, Sharon Robinson, Maggie Stiefvater, and More on the Scholastic Online Preview (Scholastic)

We Need Diverse Books

• 26 LGBTQIA+ Books for Pride (SLJ)
• 11 Must-Read LGBTQ+ Young Adult Books That Prove Intersectionality Matters (Shondaland)
• This young adult book by a Fil-Am teacher is the current talk of Amazon
• Why LGBTQ bookstores, such as Philadelphia’s Giovanni’s Room, are a lifeline for queer teens (Philadelphia Inquirer)
• Young Adult Books About Queer Girls Are On The Rise, But There’s Still So Much To Be Done (Bustle)

Around the Web

• Five questions for Mariko Tamaki (Horn Book)
• Welcome to the wonderful world of bizarre literary Instagram accounts (AV Club)

Audiobooks

• June is Audiobook Month! (Libro.FM)

In the News

• In One Year, People Visited Public Libraries More Than a Billion Times (ILMS)
• Waterstones Owner Buying B&N; Daunt to Head Both Companies (Shelf-Aware)
• We Asked Y.A. Authors to Write Stories Inspired by Archival Times Photos (NYT)
• Kathleen Hale Came For Her Goodreads Critic. Then The Internet Came For Her (BuzzFeed)

— Cathy Outten, currently reading Sorry for Your Loss by Jessie Ann Foley