Lunar Chronicles & Levithan Animated Adaptations and More: The Latest YA Book News

If you’re reading this the week it publishes and live in Canada or the United States, you’re either just coming off or entering into a long weekend. Rather than put together something think-y, it seemed a better use of all our efforts to roundup the latest in YA book news from the past month or so.

Grab your favorite drink, get cozy in your chair, and catch up on news about new YA books, upcoming adaptations, and more.

• Susan Beth Pfeffer, who wrote Life As We Knew It and many other books for young readers, has died.
• One of the highest literary honors for YA books, the Printz Award, turns 25 this year.
• A celebration of all things Black queer love in YA.
• There is a sequel in the works for The Clique series. Yes, that one from many a year ago. This is an interesting piece about the series, the fandom around it, and the attempts to reignite that fandom.
• Here’s the official final trailer for Season Three of The Summer I Turned Pretty, which releases this month.

• There’s also a bit of a different release schedule for The Summer I Turned Pretty season three.
• Marissa Meyer’s series “The Lunar Chronicles” is getting the animation treatment. Look for it in fall 2028–which isn’t as far away as it might sound.
• Did you ever read the Friday The 13th YA horror novels? I love this look at vintage tie-in novels for teens.
• Speaking of vintage YA horror, this is a fun read.
• Read your way into the finalists for the UK’s YA Book Prize.
• Looking for a newer YA or middle grade novel featuring disability? Here you go!

• A peek behind the curtain of the filming for Season Two of A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder.
• Speaking of behind the scenes, I love stories like this take take a deep dive into a component of an adaptation. This time, the costumes in Netflix’s take on Judy Blume’s Forever.
• Check out the trailer for the film adaptation of Mason Deaver’s I Wish You All The Best.
• All of the awesome YA science fiction and fantasy releases from June.
• YA thriller recommendations based on your favorite ’90s films.
• You can now stream all of the Hunger Games films on HBO/Max.
• Okay, this feels like one of those dolls-inside-a-doll media things, and I wouldn’t even necessarily classify it as YA (or maybe I would?). Monster High–you know, those dolls–are getting their own live-action adaptation. Why is this in the YA book news roundup? Because Lisi Harrison wrote a series of books that came out after the dolls were released and more books by different authors were released in the last year.

• Speaking of dolls-inside-a-doll media things, Hayley Kiyoko’s “Girls Like Girls” began as a song and then became a YA book. It’s now going to become a movie.
• While there was a ton of hype around Scott Westerfeld’s Uglies finally hitting small screens last year, there’s been very little about the animated adaptation of his book Leviathan, which will hit screens this month.
• The folks behind To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before aims to adapt another popular YA series for screens: Rebecca Ross’s Divine Rivals.
• Two of the stars of Yellowjackets have been tapped for the adaptation of Girl in Pieces.
• Here’s the latest on the upcoming second season of My Life With The Walter Boys.
• One of the elements of the We Were Liars adaptation I really liked–and I liked the adaptation a lot–was the use of music. Here’s the playlist from all of the eight episodes.

Don’t miss our interview with E. Lockhart about the adaptation of We Were Liars on the Hey YA podcast.