The YA Shelf’s YA Round-Up: January 2017

Hey everyone! How’s January been for you guys? For YA literature, it’s been a pretty busy month – and it’s just the start of the year! Here’s a fresh new round-up post for you, compiling choice news articles, features, essays, and lists from the month of January 2017! We’ve got lists featuring the newest YA books for the year, news about the best Children and YA books, YA authors winning awards, and more!

News:

• American Librarians Just Chose 2017’s Best Books for Children and Young Adults by Erin Blakemore, for Smithsonian
• Authors Barnhill, Dessen win awards from ALA for young adult literature, from The Herald Sun
• Asheboro native pens young adult novel, by Judi Brinegar, for The Courier Tribune
• Annual children’s literature awards highlight political, social issues, by Demi Monachino, for The Lamron

Features and Essays:

• Young-adult genre still going strong, by Joel Shoemaker, for The News-Gazette
• What Does 2017 Have In Store for Young-Adult Literature? by Mark Brodie, for KJZZ
• These Young Adult Novels Come With Back Stories: The Authors’ Own, by Ruth La Feria, for The New York Times
• The new wave, by Marcia Lynx Qualey, for Qantara

Lists:

• 10 Young Adult Novels Grown-Ups Secretly Love, by Jennifer Brozak, for Reader’s Digest
• The best young adult literature from 1967, by Joshua Glenn, for Boing Boing
• The 10 Best New Young Adult Books in January 2017, by Eric Smith, for Paste