Weekly YA Round-up: September 24 – 30, 2016

Yet more news and YA-related stuff this week! From controversial book reviews to addressing diversity gaps in YA texts, there’s a lot to digest and a lot to enjoy. So dig and catch up on some YA-related stuff! See you next week for more!

News:

• Young adult fiction gets its own coming-of-age story, by Brooke Pawling-Stennett, for The Columbia Chronicle
• Library Magazine Faces Intense Criticism Over Controversial Review of Book With Bisexual Female Character, by Emma Cueto, for Bustle
• SU professor, children’s literature expert, dies, by Deborah Gates, for delmarvanow

Essays, Features, and Articles:

• Closing the Diversity Gap in Young Adult Literature, by Liz Dwyer, for takepart
• In Conversation With Lisa Moore, by Ariel Gordon, for Winnipeg Free Press
• Banned Book Week: YA Author Coe Booth on Reading to Find Commonality in the Other, by Jas Chana, for National Coalition Against Censorship
• 7 Struggles Every Adult YA Reader Has Experienced, by Julia Seales, for Bustle

Reviews:

• Literary YA Box LYA01 subscription unboxing review, by Jesse Cook, for The Celebrity Cafe
• ‘Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children’ skimps on peculiarities, by Sanjay Nimmaguda, for The Daily Californian