Eric and Kelly highlight some of the latest news in the world of YA, talk about where the books about teens in the military are (and are not), and wrap up the show talking about great adult characters they love in YA fiction.

Sponsored byLittle Do We Know by Tamara Ireland Stone andMariam Sharma Hits The Road by Sheba Karim, sponsored by Epic Reads.

Shownotes:

Here To Stayby Sara Farizan

Puddin‘by Julie Murphy

Hull Metal Girls by Emily Skruskie

Habibi byHadeel al-Massari and Nyala Ali

2018 BEA Editor’s YA Buzz Titles

Publisher’s Marketplace Buzz Titles

The Hate U Giverelease date

2018 Audie Award winners

Fallen Angelsseries by Walter Dean Myers

Sunrise Over Fallujahby Walter Dean Myers

I’ll Meet You There by Heather Demetrios

Meet Me Here by Bryan Bliss

Things a Brother Knows by Dana Reinhardt

Rites of Passage by Joy N. Hensley

The Academy by Katie Sise

Something Like Normal by Trish Doller

The Impossible Knife of Memory by Laurie Halse Anderson

Personal Effects by EM Kokie

In Honor by Jessi Kirby

“Awesome Older Adults in YA Literature” piece from 2017

Under the Mermaid Angel by Martha Moore

The Reece Malcolm ListandInk Is Thicker Than Waterby Amy Spalding

I Believe in a Thing Called LoveandThe Way You Make Me Feelby Maurene Goo

Little and LionandFinding Yvonneby Brandy Colbert

Simon vs. the Homosapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli

The Last Summer of the Garrett Girls by Jessica Spotswood

This Tiny Perfect World by Lauren Gibaldi

Scarlett Epstein Hates It Here by Anna Breslaw

An Infinite Number of Parallel Universes by Randy Ribay

Mare’s War by Tanita S. Davis

The Selection (series) by Kiera Cass

Brass by Xhenet Aliu

We Are Okay by Nina LaCour

Not a Drop to Drink by Mindy McGinnis

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