YA Round-up: July 2017

July’s coming to a close, and it’s been filled with a lot of cool new things for YA fans! Check out our YA round-up list, collecting articles and news from all over the Internet – from the most anticipated YA books of Fall 2017, t0 death in literature! Have fun, and see you all next month!

News:

• Local novelist reflects Waco scenes in young adult fiction, by Carl Hoover, from Waco Tribune-Herald
• Local author Alexandra Duncan launches her next YA sci-fi novel, by Doug Gibson, from Mountain Xpress

Lists:

• The Most Anticipated Children’s and YA Books of Fall 2017, from Publishers Weekly
• 5 Problems with Y.A. Literature and How to Fix Them, by Otis Roffman, from Study Breaks
• The Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2017, from Publishers Weekly

Essays, Articles, Reviews, and Features:

• Book Review: ‘Strange the Dreamer’ by Laini Taylor, by Beth Potter, for MuskokaRegion.com
• Literature finds life in subject of death, by Erin Farrow, for IOL
• Dive into a teenager’s race and gender issues in Misa Sugiura’s It’s Not Like It’s A Secret, by Yuen Sin, from Lifestyle
• YA Author Colleen Oakes on Giving Peter Pan a Feminist Twist, by Lila Thulin, from Westword
• At last, kids and grown-ups on the same page: A club for adults who like YA fiction, by Jonathan Hunley, from the Washington Post