Welcome to another episode of Adventures in YA. In this episode we talke about some of the debut authors of 2019. What We’ve Been Reading: Sara: A Silent Voice Vol 2 Girl From the Other Side Vol 2 The Half God of Rainfall Kristin: Hello Universe Clockwork Angel Becoming The Gilded Wolves The Library of Lost and Found Socery of Thorns Educated Southern Lady Code 2019 Debut Authors A Field Guide to the North American Teenager The Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali Just for Clicks We Set the Dark on Fire Four Dead Queens Opposite of Always All the Walls of Belfast Wicked Saints You’d Be Mine Decendents of the Crane Don’t Date Rosa Santos We Hunt the Flame The Candel and the Flame I Wish You All the Best I Love You So Mochi I Want To Be Where You Are The Grief Keeper All of Us with Wings Wicked Fox Wilder Girls Color Me In Slay The Tenth Girl The Library of Lost Things Fireborne I Hope You Get This Message A River of Royal Blood Every Stolen Breath Dangrous Alliance Tell Me Everything

Hello and welcome back! In this episode we are talking about our most anticipated new releases for July, August and September. So sit back and have a listen. We do not apologize for any growth in your TBR pile because of this episode. Sara: A lot of adult webtoons Kristin: Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup Ghost Queenie Patron Saints of Nothing American Royals Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body Hope and Other Punch Lines Somewhere Only We Know Riverdale: The Day Before Riverdale: Get Out of Town Salt to the Sea The Banishment July: Systems of a Heartbreak Wilder Girls The Year They Fell August: The Revolution of Birdie Randolph Color Me In Bloody Seoul September The Toll (but actually doesn’t come out until November 5) American Royals There Will Come a Darkness Dear Haiti, Love Alaine She’s the Worst Permanent Record His Hideous Heart A Match Made in Mehendi Frankly in Love The Liars of Mariposa Island Slay Verify Connect With Us: Adventures in YA Instagram Twitter Facebook Goodreads Subscribe to Us: iTunes Android Spotify

Hello and welcome back! That hiatus lasted a little longer than we planned. In this episode we are getting back into the swing of things with a little chit chat about what we’ve been doing while we’ve been away. Sara: On the Come Up Royals Fluent Forever: How To Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget Kristin: Shrill Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee Harry Potter Series Reread Let Me Hear a Rhyme Dear Sweet Pea Barely Missing Everything On The Come Up With the Fire on High The Dazzling Heights The High Season Like a Love Story Love from A to Z Hope and Other Punch Lines Somewhere Only We Know Connect With Us: Adventures in YA Instagram Twitter Facebook Goodreads Subscribe to Us: iTunes Android Spotify

Recorded in Januay Time for a new episode! Join us as we talk about our most anticipated new releases of January, February and March. Kristin: A Girl Like That Everless Heartless First Frost Exile Reality Boy Boy 21 Saints and Misfits Sara: Dear Martin Devil’s Within Saints and Misfits January The Cruel Prince Meet Cute Batman: Nightwalker Before I Let Go Busted Love, Hate and Other Filters You’ll Miss Me When I’m Gone The Hazel Wood Unearthed Reign of the Fallen February The Apocalypse of Elena Mendoza The Belles Sightwitch Immortal Reign Blood of a Thousand Stars American Panda A Girl Like That Pitch Dark Cadaver & Queen Hearts of Iron March Restore Me The Children of Bone and Blood The Beauty That Remains Tyler Johnson Was Here The Midnights The Astonishing Color of After The Poet X Lost Crow Conspiracy Obsidio In Her Skin The Radical Element I Have Lost My Way Emergency Contact Not If I Save You First

It’s time for the 2017 year end wrap up! In this episode, we answer our annual questions about our favorite books of the year. We also talk about some of our reading goals and how to make more time in your day to read. Episode recorded in January. What We’ve Been Reading: Sara: *Warcross *The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer *Starfish Kristin: *Garden Spells *The Afterlife of Holly Chase *Frostbite *Three Sides of a Heart *Jackaby *Devils and Theives Favorite New to You Author in 2017 Kristin: *Shawn David Hutchinson *Shivaun Plozza Sara: *Angie Thomas *Maureen Goo Favorite Character Sara: *Desi – I Believe in a Thing Called Love *Starr – The Hate You Give Kristin: *Rishi – When Dimple Met Rishi *A.J. – The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry *Peter K – Always and Forever Laura Jean Best World Building/Most Vivid Setting You Read This Year Kristin: *Three Dark Crowns *Marina Sara: *Warcross Favorite Cover of 2017 Sara: *The Midnight Star Kristin: *Words in Deep Blue *The Hate You U Give *Mirror Mirror Hidden Gem of 2017 Kristin: *Hearts and Other Body Parts Sara: *Exit, Pursued by Bear Best Series Started in 2017 Sara: *Truthwitch Kristin: *Hunter Series *Three Dark Crowns A Book You didn’t Get to in 2017 but will Read in 2018 Kristin: *There’s Someone in Your House Sara: *Crooked Kingdom Most Surprising Read: Kristin: *When It’s Real *Razorhurst *Dimple Sara: *Carve the Mark Series We Finished in 2017 Sara: *The Young Elites *Age of Legends Trilogy *Queen of Hearts Kristin: *The Witch Hunter Series *The Hunter Series *Thunder Road *To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before Best Book of 2017 Sara: The Hate U Give Kristin: *The Hate U Give *I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter *Words in Deep Blue *Far From the Tree Most Anticipated Book of 2018 Sara: *Puddin’ *On the Come Up Kristin: *Puddin’ *Black Wings Beating *Leah on the Off Beat Booktubers mentioned: Lauren and the Books SavidgeReads Connect With Us: Adventures in YA Instagram Twitter Facebook Goodreads Subscribe to Us: iTunes Android

It’s the last book club of 2017! Join us as we discuss The Love That Split the World by Emily Henry. Episode recorded in December Kristin Long Way Down Far From the Tree Now I Rise Sam and Ilsa’s Last Hurrah Fairest of All Want What Girls are Made Of Frankie Warcross Hunter Elite Apex I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic This One Summer Sara The Blood of Wonderland The Love That Split the World We Should All Be Feminist War of Cards Ruin Next Quarterly Book Club book is A Line in the Dark by Melinda Lo Connect With Us: Adventures in YA Instagram Twitter Facebook Goodreads Subscribe to Us: iTunes Android

Welcome to another Episode of Adventures in YA. In this episode we talk about what we’ve been reading and the National Book Award for 2017. Episode recorded in November Melissa Albert will be at South Irving Library February 8th. Kristin: Devils Unto Dust Once and for All The Hazel Wood The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue The Female of the Species Mirror Mirror We Are the Ants Dreamland Obsidian The Sidekicks The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry Sara: These Broken Stars A Shadow Bright and Burning Blood Rose Rebillion One of Us is Lying Forest of Ruin Truthwitch Carve the Mark American Streets When Dimple Met Rishi Nick and Nora’s Infinite Playlist The Girl in the Well The National Book Awards Longlist: Young People’s Literature All The Wind in the World You Bring the Distance Near Long Way Down Orphan Island The Hate U Give What Girls are Made Of Far From the Tree I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter Clayton Byrd Goes Underground American Street Shortlist: What Girls are Made Of Far From the Tree I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter Clayton Byrd Goes Underground American Street Winner: Far From the Tree Other Literature Awards: Michael L. Printz Award Margaret A. Edwards Award William C. Morris Award Westchester Fiction Award Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Cybils Award Canadian Library Association Young Adult Canadian Book Award The Bookseller YA Book Prize Awards with a Young Adult Category: National Book Award for Young People’s Literature Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Fiction Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Young Adult Novel Royal Society Prize for Junior Science Book Connect With Us: Adventures in YA Instagram Twitter Facebook Goodreads Subscribe to Us: iTunes Android

Episode Recorded in September It’s time for another new release show. Join us as we talk about our most anticipated new releases for October, November, and December 2017. National Book Long List Leigh Bardugo King of Scars New Releases for October: Devils and Theives Before the Devil Breaks You Far From the Tree That Inevitable Victorian Thing Satellite The Last Namsara Top Ten The Nowhere Girls All the Crooked Saints Into the Bright Unknown All the Wind in the World The Forest of a Thousand Laterns Turtles All the Way Down Berserker Last Star Burning I’m Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter The Sidekicks A Line in the Dark Dear Martin Brooding YA Hero: Becoming a Main Character (Almost) as Awesome as Me Long Way Down The Afterlife of Holly Chase The Wicker King New Releases for November: Renegades The Becoming of Noah Shaw Retribution Rails War of Card New Releases for December: Ever the Brave Three Sides of a Heart: Stories about Love Triangles The Love Letters of Abelard and Lily Bookclub for December: The Love the Split the World Connect With Us: Adventures in YA Instagram Twitter Facebook Goodreads Subscribe to Us: iTunes Android

Recorded in September Welcome to another episode of Adventures in YA. This is one of those better late than never episode where we talk about new releases for July, August, and September. New Releases for July: The Disappearances Words on Bathroom Walls Hello Sunshine Who’s That Girl Because You Love to Hate Me What to Say Next The Library of Fates The Special Ones Everything All at Once New Releases for August: Kissing Max Holden Solo The Secret History of Us The Hearts We Sold The Authentics Spell Book of the Lost and Found Little and Lion Map for Wrecked Girls Wonder Woman: Warbringer The Dazzling Heights New Releases for September: Genuine Fraud Warcross You Bring the Distance Near Before She Ignites Jane Unlimited One Dark Throne Release Moxie There’s Someone Inside Your House The Language of Thornes Connect With Us: Adventures in YA Instagram Twitter Facebook Goodreads Subscribe to Us: iTunes Android

It’s time for another quarterly book club discussion! Unwind by Neal Shusterman is a dystopian tale of a society where unwanted teens are salvaged for their body parts and three runaways fight the system that would “unwind” them. Unwind is a book that challenges readers about life, not just where life begins, and where it ends, but what it truly means to be alive. Episode recorded in May Adventures in YA 2017 Reading Challenge What we’ve been reading Kristen The Inexplicable Logic of My Life Strange the Dreamer Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers The 100 Kill All Happies Always and Forever Laura Jean Flame in the Mist Under a Painted Sky Proxy The Little Prince True Grit Marina Unwind Sara Monstress And I Darken Amina’s Voice Exit, Pursued by a Bear Meant to Be The Hate You Give Unwind Salaam Reads Books Mentioned: Unwind The Love that Split the World Connect With Us: Adventures in YA Instagram Twitter Facebook Goodreads Subscribe to Us: iTunes Android