Kelly is a former librarian and a long-time blogger at STACKED. She's the editor/author of (DON'T) CALL ME CRAZY: 33 VOICES START THE CONVERSATION ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH and the editor/author of HERE WE ARE: FEMINISM FOR THE REAL WORLD. Her next book, BODY TALK, will publish in Fall 2020. Follow her on Instagram @heykellyjensen.
Now that we are well into Actual Spring and everything is bursting with colors and smells, it should come as little surprise that the same bubbling energy is showing up in the world of YA news. We’ve got updates about upcoming adaptations and so much more to dive into. This news roundup covers what popped up throughout the month of April.
Grab your favorite beverage of the season and dive on in.
- All of the science fiction and fantasy YA releases that hit shelves in April.
- If you like dark YA and like feminist YA, you’ll want to read these darkly feminist YA books.
- This may be paywalled, but if you’re interested in reading about the continued hunger for The Hunger Games, this looks like a great exploration.
- Speaking of that series, Sunrise on the Reaping helped YA sales rise in the first quarter of the year.
- Did you read or have familiarity with the Clique books of the late 00s? I certainly did, so I really enjoyed this author interview.
- Readers looking for a full series that can be read start to finish without a wait will like this roundup of such series from Simon & Schuster.
- Here’s your first look at the adaptation of We Were Liars, which hits Prime on June 18.
- A little more about We Were Liars and its forthcoming adaptation.
- We’ll have the third and final season of The Summer I Turned Pretty hitting Prime in July, too.
- And why not a little more about the third season of The Summer I Turned Pretty, too?
- Curtis Jobling’s Wereworld, published in 2010, has been adapted into the Netflix series Wolf King.
- Gayle Forman’s Just One Day will see an adaptation hitting screens in the not-too-distant future.
- More adaptation news? Yes, indeed. Marisha Pessl’s Darkly was acquired for adaptation from Jamie Lee Curtis!
- Twilight is streaming again. You can catch the now-20-year-old book’s adaptation on Netflix.
- Alice Oseman’s Heartstopper will not have a Season Four. Instead, it’s getting a feature-length film.
- Peep the cover and description for a new book from Jennifer Lynn Barnes.
- This forthcoming “transgender epic” looks, well, EPIC.
- Want another preview of a forthcoming YA book that looks excellent? Check out the excerpt from Under the Neon Lights.
- Where Wolves Don’t Die took home the Minnesota Book Award for Young Adult Literature this year.
- The Color of a Lie by Kim Johnson is this year’s winner of the LA Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature.
- More and more publishers have been adding YA-specific comic imprints, and we’ll get to see even more with the addition of Cicada Books’s new YA comics that begin publishing in September.
- In case you missed it, Reese Witherspoon’s picked her next YA book club title: Heiress Takes All.
- The number of teen book clubs in Colorado–they contribute to nominating the best of the best in teen literature for the state awards–is a reminder that the kids ARE, in fact, reading.
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