Hey YA

Kelly and Eric celebrate their 50th episode and 2nd podcast anniversary with 50 rapid-fire backlist YA recommendations.

This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, No Ivy League by Hazel Newlevant, and The Undoing of Thistle Tate by Katelyn Detweiler.

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SHOW NOTES

Note: Kelly was incorrect about the book from the creator of Younger. It was the book from the creator of The Bold Type.

Hero by Perry Moore

Born Confused by Tanuja Desai Hidier 

Proxy by Alex London

The After Life by Daniel Ehrenhaf

Uglies by Scott Westerfeld

All That I Can Fix by Crystal Chan

Big Fat Manifesto by Susan Vaught 

Apple In The Middle by Dawn Quigley

The New Guy by Amy Spalding 

Finding Yvonne by Brandy Colbert 

Side Effects May Vary by Julie Murphy

Audrey, Wait! by Robin Benway

Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

Tyrell by Coe Booth

This Is Not a Test by Courtney Summers

Frost by Marianna Baer

500 Words or Less by Juleah del Rosario

Noteworthy by Riley Redgate

When I Was The Greatest by Jason Reynolds

172 Hours on the Moon by Johan Harstad

Across the Universe by Beth Revis

Fake ID by Lamar Giles

Beauty Queens by Libba Bray

Tiny Pretty Things by Sona Charaipotra and Dhonielle Clayton

Three Day Summer by Sarvenaz Tash

Something Like Normal by Trish Doller

This Impossible Light by Lily Myers

The Borden Murders by Sarah Miller

Dream Country by Shannon Gibney

A Season of Daring Greatly by Ellen Emerson White

Control by Lydia Kang

Silver Phoenix by Cindy Pon

An Infinite Number of Parallel Universe by Randy Ribay

The Lost Girl by Sangu Mandanna

More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera

Wrecked by Maria Padian

Up To This Pointe by Jennifer Longo

The Memory of Light by Francisco X. Stork

We Are The Ants by Shaun David Hutchinson

The Heartbeats of Wing Jones by Katherine Webber

Dueled by Elsie Chapman

The Secret of a Heart Note by Stacey Lee

The Vigilante Poets of Selwyn Academy by Kate Hattemer

The Vicious Deep by Zoraida Cordova

The Sound of Us by Ashley Poston

The Truth Commission by Susan Juby

Through The Woods by Emily Carroll

Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow by Faiza Guene

The Golden Day by Ursula Dubosarsky

The Waking Dark by Robin Wasserman

Hog Dog Girl by Jennifer Dugan

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Kelly and special guest Brandy Colbert talk about Norma Klein’s Mom, The Wolfman, and Me, well-rendered non-traditional family dynamics, city life for 11-year-olds, and more in this Hey YA: Extra Credit episode.

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SHOW NOTES

The Revolution of Birdie Randolph by Brandy Colbert

Mom, The Wolfman, and Me by Norma Klein

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Kelly and guest host Tirzah Price talk about 2019’s queer YA offerings and dive deep into the full-names-in-book-titles trend.

This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders and Swipe Right for Murder by James Patterson.

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SHOW NOTES

The Lifeboat Clique by Kathy Parks

Hungry Hearts edited by Elsie Chapman and Caroline Tung Richmond

Hot Dog Girl by Jennifer Dugan

Amelia Westlake Was Never Here by Erin Gough

The Stars And The Blackness Between Them by Junauda Petrus

Shatter the Sky by Rebecca Kim Wells

The Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali by Sabina Kahn

Tell Me How You Really Feel by Aminah Mae Safi

The Griefkeeper by Alexandra Villasante

Kiss Number 8 by Colleen AF Venable and Ellen T. Crenshaw

Brave Face by Shaun David Hutchinson

All The Things We Do In The Dark by Saundra Mitchell

Bloom by Kevin Panetta and Savanna Ganucheau

Of Ice and Shadows by Audrey Coulthurst

Dear Rachel Maddow by Adrienne Kisner

The Confusion of Laurel Graham by Adrienne Kisner

The Revolution of Birdie Randolph by Brandy Colbert

How to Be Remy Cameron by Julian Winters

Don’t Date Rosa Santos by Nina Moreno

Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me by Mariko Tamaki and Rosemary O’Connell-Valero

The Summer of Jordi Perez by Amy Spalding

The Last Voyage of Poe Blythe by Ally Condie

The Education of Margot Sanchez by Lilliam Rivera

The New David Espinoza by Fred Aceves

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Kelly digs into No More Saturday Nights, the lack of teen fathers in YA, and more in this Hey YA: Extra Credit episode.

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Show Notes:

No More Saturday Nights by Norma Klein

Kirkus Review

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Eric and Kelly talk about vacations from hell and then share ghost stories to be enjoyed on said vacations.

This episode is sponsored by #BookSquadGoals and TBR: Tailored Book Recommendations.

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Show Notes:

Wilder Girls by Rory Power

Sawkill Girls by Claire LeGrand

Love & Gelato by Jenna Evans Welch

A Fierce and Subtle Poison by Samantha Mabry

And We’re Off by Dana Schwartz

Guy In Your MFA Twitter

Burn for Burn by Jenny Han and Siobhan Vivian

Love and Other Train Wrecks by Leah Konen

The Devil and Winnie Flynn by Micol Ostow

Rules for Vanishing by Kate Alice Marshall

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

Ten by Gretchen McNeil

Wanderlove by Kirsten Hubbard

With Malice by Eileen Cook

Meant to Be by Lauren Morrill

Hot Dog Girl by Jennifer Dugan

Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins

Conspiracy of Us by Maggie C. Hall

This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki

Lumberjanes

We Speak in Storms by Natalie Lund

Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake

A Room Away From The Wolves by Nova Ren Suma

Shutter by Courtney Alameda

Anya’s Ghost by Vera Brosgol

The Girl from the Well by Rin Chupeco

Dead Girls of Hysteria Hall by Kate Alender

Spirit Hunters by Ellen Oh

City of Ghosts by Victoria Schwabb

Ghost Squad by Claribel Ortega

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Kelly and special guest Tom Ryan talk about Norma Klein’s Breaking Up, progressive representation of queer couples, toxic adults, and more in this Hey YA: Extra Credit episode.

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Show Notes:

Keep This To Yourself by Tom Ryan

Breaking Up by Norma Klein

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Eric and Kelly talk about trends in YA this year they’ve seen, as well as offer up some cool reading for summer and hot reading for winter.

This episode is sponsored by #BookSquadGoals Podcast and The Best Lies by Sarah Lyu.

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Show Notes

Slay by Brittney Morris

The Shipby Antonia Honeywell

Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice

Family Secrets by Norma Klein

Wilder Girls by Rory Power

Red Rising by Pierce Brown

Across The Universe by Beth Revis

Cinder by Marissa Meyer

Heart of Iron by Ashley Poston

Nyxia by Scott Reitgen

A Spark of White Fire by Sangu Mandanna

The Gilded Wolves by Roshani Chokshi

The Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali by Sabina Khan

Love From A to Z by SK Ali

The Weight of Our Sky by Hanna Alkaf

Bright Burning Stars by AK Small 

Let’s Go Swimming On Doomsday by Natalie C. Andersno

When The Ground is Hard by Malla Nunn

Dear Haiti With Love by Maika and Maritza Moulite in Haiti

The Things She’s Seen by Ambelin and Ezekiel Kwaymullina

Wicked Fox by Kat Cho

Somewhere Only We Know by Maurene Goo

Rebel Seoul and Rogue Heart by Axie Oh

Bloody Seoul by Sonia Patel

Avatar: The Last Airbender by FC Yee

His Hideous Heart edited by Dahlia Adler

It’s A Whole Spiel edited by Laura Silverman and Katherine Locke

Rural Voices edited by Nora Shalaway Carpenter

Black Enough edited by Ibi Zoboi

Color Outside The Lines edited by Sangu Mandanna

Blood and Salt by Kim Liggett

Trapped by Michael Northrop

The Well’s End by Seth Fishman

Notes From My Captivity by Kathy Parks

Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater

Wintersong by S Jae-Jones

Blankets by Craig Thompson

Essex County by Jeff Lemire

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Kelly talks about Norma Klein’s Love Is One Of The Choices, immature adult figures, and student-teacher relationships in the third Hey YA: Extra Credit episode.

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Show Notes:

Love Is One Of The Choices by Norma Klein

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Eric and Kelly talk about their favorite YA books of the year so far, highlight 2019 YA comics, and scream about the upcoming Hunger Games prequel.

This episode is sponsored by Libro.fm and The Virtue of Sin by Shannon Schruen.

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Shownotes:

“Untitled Panem Novel”

We Hunt The Flame by Hafsah Faizal

Slay by Brittney Morris

I’m Not Dying With You Tonight by Gilly Segal and Kimberly Jones

Love Is One Of The Choices by Norma Klein

We Set The Dark On Fire by Tehlor Kay Mejia

Rayne and Delilah’s Midnight Matinee by Jeff Zentner

Heroine by Mindy McGinnis

Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay

Black Enough edited by Ibi Zoboi

Hot Dog Girl by Jennifer Dugan

Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me by Mariko Tamaki, illustrated by Rosemary Valero O’Connell

The Giver by Lois Lowry

Mooncakes by Suzanne Walker and Wendy Xu

Bloom by Kevin Panetta

I Was Their American Dream by Malaka Gharib

Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson and Emily Carroll

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Kelly talks about Norma Klein’s Family Secrets, problematic weight stuff, and childish adults on the second Hey YA: Extra Credit episode.

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Show Notes:

Kirkus Review of Family Secrets (scroll down — linking directly takes you to an entirely different book called Family Secrets).

Family Secrets by Norma Klein

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