YA reads for the new year - PowerPoint Presentation

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YA reads for the new year

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Jen Scott Wills

Teen Services Librarian

Boise Public Library

Goodreads: jenhugsbooksEmail: jwills@cityofboise.orgInstagram: @jenhugsbooks

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books from favorite authors

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Two can keep a secret

by Karen M. McManus

January 8

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Another thriller by the author of One of Us is Lying

A girl moves to a picture-perfect town where everyone has a secret and someone has declared war on Homecoming

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King of Scars

by Leigh

Bardugo

January 29th

By the author of the Shadow and Bone trilogy and the Six of Crows duology

Set in the

Grishaverse

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On the come up

by

angie

thomas

February 5

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Follow up to the hugely popular

The Hate U Give

The daughter of a rapper who died before his big break feels the pressure to make it in the music business when her mom loses her job and homelessness looms.

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The past & other things that should stay buried/Brave face

by Shaun David Hutchinson

TPOTTSSB: February 19

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A teen who lives in a funeral home is surprised when his recently dead ex-friend comes back to life.

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Brave Face: August 20

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Hutchinson’s memoir of what led to his suicide attempt at 19 and how he eventually arrived at self-acceptance.

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Shoutby Laurie

Halse

Anderson

March 12th

Memoir by the author of

Speak

,

Chains

, & The Impossible Knife of Memory

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Digby A.S. King

March 26

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A family saga by the author of Glory O’Brien’s History of the Future and Reality Boy

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Aurora Risingby Jay Kristoff & Amie Kaufman

May 7th

First in a new Sci-Fi series by the authors of the

Illuminae

trilogy.

A recently graduated cadet, strapped with a crew no one else wants, accidentally rescues a girl trapped in

cryo

-sleep for two centuries.

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Chain of Gold

by

cassandra

clare

2019

First in a new series with characters found in her Infernal Devices series

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Kingdom of back

by Marie Lu

2019

Based on the life of Mozart and his sister

Nannerl

. In order to be remembered like her brother,

Nannerl

makes a deal with an imp from another world.

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DC icons/dc Ink

March

June

July

October

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sequels

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The Wicked King

by Holly Black

January 8

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Second book in the Folk of the Air series after

The Cruel Prince

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Children of virtue and vengeance

by

tomi

adeyemi

March 5

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Second book in the Legacy of the

Orisha

series after

Children of Blood and Bone

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There’s something about sweetie

by

sandhya

menon

May

Companion to Menon’s first book,

When Dimple Met Rishi

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Wayward Son

by Rainbow Rowell

2019

Follow up to

Carry On

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debuts

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The Field Guide to the North American Teenager

by Ben Phillipe

January 22

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Contemporary/Realistic

A black French Canadian teen has to move to Austin, Texas and spends his time cataloging everyone he meets while trying to avoid the oppressive heat.

Lots of blogger and social media push for this one.

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Crown of Feathers

by Nicki Pau

Preto

February 12th

Fantasy

A world that was once protected by an army of Phoenix riders until war ripped it apart.

A girl who runs away from her controlling sister and pretends to be a boy to join up with the Phoenix Riders in hiding.

Secrets and lies that could change everything.

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Comics will break your heart

by faith

erin

hicks February 12th

Contemporary/Romance

A Romeo & Juliet tale set in the world of comics creators

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We set the dark on fire

by

tehlor

kay mejia

February 26

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Dystopian

Handmaid’s Tale meets Mockingjay

In a society where the only options for wealthy women are wife or nanny (and poor women have no options,) a girl whose parents sacrificed everything to get her into a school must choose between her privilege and changing the world.

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Hot Dog Girl

by Jennifer Dugan

April 30

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Contemporary/Romance

Friends growing up and apart while trying to save the amusement park where they’ve spent all their summers

“Everyone wants the princess and not the girl in the hot dog suit.”

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Kings, queens, and in-betweens

by Tanya

Boteju

May 7th

Contemporary/Realistic

Described as “Judy Blume meets

RuPaul’s

Drag Race”

A “perpetually awkward” girl in love with her straight best friend finds love and self-acceptance when she discovers the drag scene on the other side of town.

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The Grief Keeper

by Alexandra

Villasante

June 11th

Magical Realism

Main character and her sister are detained after trying to seek asylum in the U.S.

Experimental study to create “Grief Keepers” – people who absorb the grief of others.

Falls in love with the girl she’s hired to help heal.

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Frankly in love

by

david

yoon

2019

“A fresh and relatable take on identity and race as seen through the eyes of a Korean-American teen caught between his parents’ traditional expectations and his own Southern California upbringing.”

Already featured in Entertainment Weekly multiple times.

Big time movie deal

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Graphic Novels

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Kakuriyo

: Bed & Breakfast for Spirits

by Midori Yuma & Waco Ioka

January 1st

Aoi

inherited her grandfather’s ability to see spirits and his massive debt to them. In order to work off his debt to the spirit world, she has one day to find a job in a city where no one wants to hire a human – or she’ll have to marry the head of the inn her grandfather ruined.

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Bloom

by Kevin Panetta & Savanna

Ganucheau

February 12th

Ari wants to leave the family bakery behind and head out into the world with his band, but it get complicated when he starts to fall for his replacement at the bakery.

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Beauty & the Beast Girl

by

Neji

February 12th

A lonely monster, wishes she could live among the humans despite her frightening appearance. Everything changes when she starts getting a visitor--a blind human girl who’s fascinated with her mysterious forest friend. As the monster and the girl grow attached in their secluded world, their love proves that beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

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Kiss Number 8

by Colleen AF Venable & Ellen T. Crenshaw

March 12

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Amanda has never understood the fascination with kissing, especially since her first 7 kisses were all disasters, but it’s the 8

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one that really turns her tidy little life upside down.

An exploration of family, faith, and sexuality.

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Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me

by Mariko Tamaki & Rosemary Valero-O’Connell

May 7

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What happens when your dream girl is maybe not the greatest girlfriend?

Lots to discuss about toxic relationships and letting go.

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Pumpkinheads

by Rainbow Rowell & Faith Erin Hicks

August 27

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Seasonal best friends spend their last work shift ever doing all the things and having all the adventures.

A “tender and hilarious story about two irresistible teens discovering what it means to leave behind a place—and a person—with no regrets.”

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Contemporary/Realistic

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Death prefers blondes

by

caleb

roehrig

January 29

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Paris Hilton meets Oceans Eleven meets

Rupaul’s Drag Race

“Can one rebel heiress and four kickboxing drag queens withstand the slings and arrows of truly outrageous fortune? Or will a mounting sea of troubles end them — for good?”

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Rayne & Delilah’s

midnite

matineeby

jeff zentner

February 26

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Best friends Delia & Josie have a Mystery Science Theater 3000-type monster movie show on a local cable access channel, but graduation is coming soon and there are lots of decisions to make.

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Opposite of always

by Justin A. Reynolds

March 12

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Jack and Kate fall in love at a party over their love of movies and

Froot

Loops, but Kate dies suddenly just as they are settling in to their relationship. Then Jack is sent back in time to the night they met, where he quickly learns that his efforts to save Kate might put other people he loves at risk.

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With the fire on high

by Elizabeth

acevedo

May 7th

Emoni

has too much to do to dream. She takes care of her daughter and her grandmother, while doing her best to get through senior year. When her school opens a new culinary arts class, she has to decide between sticking to the rules she has about her life or allowing herself to work for a future doing what she loves.

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birthday

by Meredith

russo

May 21st

Two kids, Morgan and Eric, are bonded for life after being born on the same day at the same time. We meet them once a year on their shared birthday as they grow and change: as Eric figures out who he is and how he fits into the world, and as Morgan makes the difficult choice to live as her true self.

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Fan the fame

by

anna

priemaza

August 20

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“Equal parts Rainbow Rowell’s 

Fangirl and Jennifer Mathieu’s 

Moxie

, this fiercely crafted, feminist YA novel takes on fandom, accountability, and doing the right thing. Even when it hurts..”

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Sci fi/Fantasy

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slayer

by Kiersten white

January 8

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Set in the world of Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Nina has grown up in a Watcher Academy – a boarding school where watchers are trained. She has never been interested in the violent lifestyle until she ends up being chosen as the last slayer -- ever.

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The Gilded Wolves

by

Roshani

Chokshi

January 15

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A Six of Crows-

esque fantasy heist story set in a Paris full of magic at the turn of the 20

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century.

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The afterward

by

e.k. Johnston

February 19th

High fantasy/quest

”Follows an apprentice knight and a not-at-all reformed thief as they try to figure out what to do with their lives after they help save the world." 

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Last of her name

by

jessica

khoury

February 26

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Sci-Fi retelling of the Romanovs

16 years ago a royal family was murdered in a rebel uprising. A girl named

Stacia

finds out that her idyllic life on a safe planet is all a lie and she is the lost princess Anya as the Union

Direktor closes in.

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Once & future

by

amy rose

capetta & cori mccarthy

March 5

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Sci-Fi King Arthur retelling

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When the sky fell on splendor

by

emily henry

March 12th

The Serpent King

 meets 

Stranger Things

A group of friends in a small town devastated by a factory explosion find solace in investigating local ghost stories for their YouTube channel. One night their investigations take a turn when a bright light in the sky ends up being something massive that crashes in the woods. What they find there changes everything.

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Sorcery of Thorns

by Margaret Rogerson

June 4

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Fantasy world full of libraries that are actually prisons for books that can transform into monsters. When a particularly terrible book/

moster

is freed, a girl who dreams of becoming a warden is implicated in the crime and has to form an alliance with someone she hates to get to the truth.

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The beautiful

by

renee

ahdieh

October 8

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A vampire story and murder mystery set in New Orleans in the 1800s.

“These vampires don’t sparkle. They slay. ”

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Romance

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In

paris

with youby clementine beauvais

January 8

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Huge bestseller in France.

Novel in verse

Eugene and Tatiana fell in love during a summer 10 years ago, but things happened and they separated. They meet again one morning on the Paris metro, no longer teenagers, the attraction is still there, but so is their history.

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The music of what happens

by bill

konigsberg

January 29th

Max & Jordan are trying to navigate their complicated families and complicated lives whiles working on a food truck in the Arizona summer heat.

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Somewhere only we know

by

maurene goo

May 7th

“Sparks fly between a K pop starlet and a tabloid reporter in this heartwarming rom-com.”

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Her royal highness

by

rachel

hawkins

May 7

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Royalty

Hate-to-love story about a girl who discovers that her boarding school roommate is an actual princess.

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I wish you the best

by mason

deaver

May 14th

Ben is thrown out of their house when they come out as

nonbinary

and has to move in with their estranged older sister while trying to keep a low profile and survive the last half of their senior year at a new school. But when Ben meets Nathan and their friendship begins to grow and change, what started out as a disastrous situation might just be a chance at a happier life.

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Red, white, & royal blue

by

casey

mcquiston

June 4

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When the U.S. President’s son is caught in a confrontation with his longtime nemesis, Prince Henry of Great Britain, the two governments stage a fake friendship between them as damage control.

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Something like gravity

by amber smith

June 18

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Compared to Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda and Eleanor and Park

A transgender boy falls in love for the first time, even though the first few times Chris & Mia meet are pretty high on the disaster scale.

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Truly madly royally

by

debbie

rigaud

July 30

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Super-focused Zora enrolls in a prestigious summer program determined to get out of her tiny corner of New Jersey. Then she meets Owen and things get a little . . . unfocused. Especially when she finds out he’s the prince of a small European country and he invites her to his older brother’s wedding.

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Historical

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Voices: the final hours of

joan

of arcby

david elliott

March 26

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Author of 2017’s Bull

Tells the story of Joan of Arc using medieval poetry forms and a variety of voices.

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Like a love story

by

abdi

nazemian

June 4

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1989, New York City

Tells the story of the AIDS crisis through the eyes of three friends

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Professor

renoir’s

collection of oddities, curiosities, & delightsby

randall platt

July 23

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In 1896 two 14-year-old girls – one a giant and one a dwarf – meet in a traveling carnival and come to depend on each other as they try to escape the evil carnie owner who threatens to kill and stuff the animals in their charge.

The Greatest Showman meets The One and Only Ivan.

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Semper

augustus

by mackenzi

lee 2019

Set in 1637 Holland at the height of the Dutch tulip mania, a flower girl in love with her mistress must decide whether or not to dupe her beloved’s father by selling him a false Semper Augustus bulb, the most valuable tulip of its time, in order to save herself and her brother.

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trends

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Average age of YA main characters is edging up

Check out this blog post for an interesting take on the subject: https://vickywhoreads.wordpress.com/2018/11/01/how-ya-isolates-teens/

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France

Lots of books set in France, or with French (or French-Canadian) characters

At least three books about Joan of Arc

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vampires

Twilight nostalgia on social media

New Slayer series by Kiersten White and a new comics push for Buffy

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Resources

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Goodreads

, specifically this list:

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/128753.YA_Novels_2019_Young_Adult_Content_Teen_characters_

Twitter – follow as many YA authors as you can, because they often promote other author’s books as well as their own. Also follow publishers and book bloggers.Book Riot – They have a website, but also sign up for their newsletters

The Book Birds Guide to 2019 new releases

(updated monthly):

http://www.booksbirds.com/2018/02/your-guide-to-2019-ya-releases.html

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Thanks to Jen Wills

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