Weekly YA Round-Up: August 29 – September 2, 2016

It’s been a pretty good week for some YA-related stuff! Sabaa Tahir released A Torch Against the Night, and it’s one of the biggest things that’s happened to the YA-reading community over the past seven days. Also for this week, a debate over how “90% of YA is crap,” an interview with a YA author, and how teen fiction is still pretty big with people who are not teens anymore.

News:

• Bloomsbury Anthology Pairs YA Authors and BookTubers, by Shannon Maughan, from Publishers Weekly

Blog Posts, Articles, and Reviews:

• ‘90% of YA is crap:’ the debate that dominated the Edinburgh book festival, by Sian Cain, from The Guardian
• Sabaa Tahir and Renee Ahdieh Ply Young-Adult Literature with Middle Eastern Lore, by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn, from IndyWeek
• Book review: Sabaa Tahir’s fantasy series grows up in A Torch Against the Night, by Samantha Nelson, from the A.V. Club
• Book review: “Another Brooklyn” will break and change your heart, by Drew Gallagher, from The Free Lance-Star
• Prolific teen book category still popular with adults after nearly 20 years, by Susan Winslow, for Daily Republic

Author Interviews:

• Wisdom from YA Authors on Leaving Home: Jacqueline Woodson, from NPR [Note: This is part of a series of YA author interviews by NPR – check them out on the NPR website!]