Skip to main content

This Week’s New YA Books - May 7, 2020

I’ve tried to verify release dates as much as possible, given that a number of books had their publication dates shifted because of COVID-19. If the book isn’t out this week, preorder it as a surprise to your future self. A * means I’ve read and recommend the book! ~ Kelly Jensen  May 7, 2020

American Royals by Katherine McGee (first in a series, paperback)
Aurora Burning by Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff (series)
The Betrothed by Kiera Cass (first in a series)
Bloodleaf by Crystal Smith (first in a series, paperback)
Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo
Finale by Stephanie Garber (series finale, paperback)
Forged in Fire and Stars by Andrea Robertson 
How It Feels to Float by Helena Fox (paperback)
I Love You So Mochi by Sarah Kuhn (paperback)
*I Wish You All The Best by Mason Deaver (paperback)
Invisible Ghosts by Robyn Schneider (paperback)
Last Girls by Demetra Brodsky
Like a Love Story by Abdi Nazemian (paperback)
The Mermaid, The Witch, and The Sea by Maggie Tokuda-Hall
The Music of What Happens by Bill Konigsberg (paperback)
*The Rest of the Story by Sarah Dessen (paperback)
Side Effects May Vary by Julie Murphy (paperback)
*Somewhere Only We Know by Maurene Goo (paperback)
*War and Speech by Don Zolidis
What If It’s Us? by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera (paperback)
Where She Fell by Kaitlin Ward (paperback)



Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Dealing with Grief

Below are some sites that can help you cope with the grieving process. Death and Grief Teen Grief Support Help for Teens Teens and Grief Support for Grieving Teens Grief Speaks: Death of a Friend
Post a Comment
Read more

CLASSIC YA BOOKS THAT MADE YOU FEEL SEEN

  K.W. Colyard   Jul 26, 2023 SPEAK   BY LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON I’m sure I’d heard of another book about rape before  Speak  came along. Hell, I might even have read one. But these days? This is the only book I can remember that dealt with one of the myriad possible reactions to sexual assault: silence.  Speak  and other books that deal with similar subject matter have the ability to empower victims of abuse to label what’s happened to them and seek help. ARE YOU THERE GOD? IT’S ME, MARGARET  BY JUDY BLUME Once a staple on banned books lists, Judy Blume’s most famous novel has been teaching preteens about puberty — including menstruation and boob exercises — since 1970.  Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret  was far ahead of its time, being one of the first children’s books to show an interfaith family on the page, and — along with Lois Lowry’s Anastasia Krupnik — depicted a child allowed to make up her own mind about which religion she wanted to follow. THE CAT ATE MY GYMSUIT  BY PAULA
Post a Comment
Read more

JEWISH YA BOOKS: MORE THAN THE HOLOCAUST

 by  Jaime Herndon   Oct 27, 2021 I can remember the first time I really felt “seen” in a book. It was Judy Blume’s  Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret . Margaret’s parents had an interfaith marriage, like my parents. I’d never seen that before in a book, and it felt special to me. I don’t remember reading many of the Holocaust books people say they read as kids (Lois Lowry’s  Number the Stars  comes to mind, which is actually about a non-Jewish girl), although we did read  The Diary of Anne Frank  in school. To put it bluntly, we didn’t need to read many of those books at my Jewish day school. The history was in many of our families, with grandparents having numbers on their arms or stories of escape. It was in some of our teachers whose histories we whispered. We studied the Holocaust intensely our 8th grade year. I don’t think it was until after I graduated and went to a public high school that I realized Holocaust kid lit and YA lit was A Thing. Sometimes I cringe when looking at
Post a Comment
Read more