Nov
2019

Adventures in YA Episode 059: 2019 Debut Authors

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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


Jul
2019

Adventures in YA Episode 058: New Releases July – September 2019

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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

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Jul
2019

Adventures in YA Episode 057: Let Have a Chit Chat

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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

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Sep
2018

Adventures in YA Episode 056: New Releases January – March 2018

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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


Aug
2018

Adventures in YA Episode 055: 2017 Year End Wrap Up

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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

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Feb
2018

Adventures in YA Episode 054: The Love That Split the World by Emily Henry

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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

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Jan
2018

Adventures in YA Episode 053: National Book Award 2017

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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

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Dec
2017

Adventures in YA Episode 052: New Releases for October – December 2017

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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

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Nov
2017

Adventures in YA Episode 051: New Releases for July-September 2017

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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

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Sep
2017

Adventures in YA Episode 050: Unwind by Neal Shusterman

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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

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