Kelly and guest Amma Marfo talk about The Baby-Sitters Club, Season Two. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! SHOW NOTES Amma Marfo — Twitter, Instagram See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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104.5: Hey YA Extra Credit: Chatting BSC on Netflix with Amma Marfo

Kelly and Erica dive into recent YA books that explore mental health and highlight some really pretty graphic novels. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. SHOWNOTES White Smoke by Tiffany D. Jackson Black Girl Unlimited by Echo Brown Home, Home by Lisa Allen Agostini When The Stars Lead To You by Ronni Davis The Weight of Our Sky by Hanna Alkaf The Astonishing Color of After by Emily XR Pan The Surprising Power of a Good Dumpling by Wai Chim Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo The New David Espinoza by Fred Aceves The Sprite and the Gardener by Rii Abrego and Joe Whitt Summer Spirit by Elizabeth Holleville Squad by Maggie Tokuda-Hall I Was Their American Dream by Malaka Gharib The Tea Dragon Series by Kay O’Neill, starting with the Tea Dragon Society My Last Summer with Cass by Mark Crilley Witchlight by Jessi Zabarsky Crushing by Sophie Burrows See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

I'm a Cancer, How About You?

Kelly offers a history of the YA career novel, a genre catering to showcasing jobs to (white, straight) teen girls before they took their real jobs as wives. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. SHOW NOTES “Is The Nurse Portrayed in Career Novels Fiction or Real?” “Mapping a History of Adolescence and Literature For Adolescents“ “Cherry Ames Nursing Game” Series Books website Cherry Ames, Island Nurse See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

103.5: Hey YA Extra Credit: The Career Novel

Jenn from Book Riot’s Get Booked podcast joins Erica to discuss the current state of dystopian YA compared to the Hunger Games era. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Shownotes Gearbreakers by Zoe Hana Mikuta We Set the Dark on Fire  by Tehlor Kay Mejia  The Ones We’re Meant to Find by Joan He Skyhunter by Marie Lu War Girls by Tochi Onyebuchi Sanctuary by Paola Mendoza and Abby Sher  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Haviest of the Haves

Erica shares a few romances– whimsical as well as serious– that feature diverse characters. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Last Night at the Telegraph Clubby Malinda Lo A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Tahereh Mafi SOMEWHERE ONLY WE KNOW BY MAURENE GOO I Wanna Be Where You Are by Kristina Forest See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

102.5: Hey YA Extra Credit: Diverse Romance

Kelly and Erica highlight excellent books for Latinx Heritage Month and dig into must-read YA memoirs. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Shownotes Latinx Kid Lit Book Fest SimoneBreaks All The Rules by Debbie Rigaud Fat Chance, Charlie Vega by Crystal Maldonado “Fat Girls in YA” with Crystal Maldonado Somewhere Between Bitter And Sweet by Laekan Zea Kemp Tigers, Not Daughters by Samantha Mabry Undead Girl Gang by Lily Anderson Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White by Lila Quintero Weaver How Moon Fuentez Fell in Love with the Universe by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland Indivisible by Daniel Aleman I Was Their American Dream by Malaka Gharib The Beautiful Struggle (Young Reader’s Edition) by Ta-Nehisi Coates We Are Not Broken by George M Johnson Almost American Girl by Robin Ha On Top of Glass by Karina Manta Brave Face: A Memoir by Shaun David Hutchinson A Face for Picasso by Ariel Henry Notes from a Young Black Chef (Adapted for Young Adults) by Kwame Onwuachi See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Opening Grub Hub and Doing Some Damage

Erica shares a couple books that made her want to read more as an adult, as well as some she’s really looking forward to. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead A Darker Shade of Magicby V.E. Schwab Within These Wicked Wallsby Lauren Blackwood One of the Good Onesby Maika Moulite and Maritza Moulite See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

101.5: Hey YA Extra Credit: Dipping Your Toes Into YA

Kelly and Erica talk about new releases they’re loving so far and about those they’re excited to be released. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. BOOKS DISCUSSED Summer Spirit by Elizabeth Holleville The Taking of Jake Livingston by Ryan Douglass A Sitting in St James by Rita Williams-Garcia The Dead and the Dark by Courtney Gould Love is a Revolution by Renee Watson Bad Witch Burning by Jessica Lewis The Bones of Ruin by Sarah Raughley All These Bodies by Kendare Blake Things We Couldn’t Say by Jay Coles Black Birds in the Sky by Brandy Colbert White Smoke by Tiffany Jackson Huda F Are You? By Huda Fahmy A Dark and Starless Forest by Sarah Hollowell Not Here To Be Liked by Michelle Quach Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao You Can Go Your Own Way by Eric Smith See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A Hug in a Book

Kelly talks about three recent YA books that explore contemporary history from 1960-today. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. SHOW NOTES From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chen and the Trial that Galvanized The Asian American Movement by Paula Yoo Baby and Soloby Lisabeth Posthuma Wallsby LM Elliott See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

100.5: Extra Credit: Contemporary History: 3 Recent YA Releases

Kelly and Erika talk about excellent diverse science fiction and fantasy, then offer up some delicious new foodie fiction. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. BOOKS DISCUSSED Spin the Dawn by Elizabeth Lim A Snake Falls to Earthby Darcie Little Badger A Song Below Water by Bethany C. Marrow Sisters of the Snake by Sasha and Sarena Nanua Labyrinth Lostby Zoraida Córdova Darlingby K. Ancrum An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir This Poison Heart by Kaylynn Bayron Prism Stalker, Vol. 1 by Sloane Leong We Light Up the Sky by Lilliam Rivera A Taste for Love by Jennifer Yen A Pho Love Story by Loan Le Donuts and Other Proclamations of Love by Jared Reck The Secret Recipe for Moving Onby Karen Bischer Radha and Jai’s Recipe for Romance by Nisha Sharma A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher It’s Kind of a Cheesy Love Storyby Lauren Morrill The Music of What Happens by Bill Konigsberg See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Foodie Tinder

Kelly shares the history and context of the first true YA book, Maureen Daly’s Seventeenth Summer. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Show Notes Seventeenth Summer by Maureen Daly Literary Ladies Guide: Maureen Daly “Fond du Lac was the birthplace of young adult novels: Celebrating Maureen Daly” “On The Solid Side” Girls in Bloom: Coming of Age in the Mid-20th Century Woman’s Novel  by Francis Booth See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

99.5: Extra Credit: The First Real YA Book

Kelly and Erica (re)introduce themselves and talk about fun, uplifting fantasy reads, as well as excellent short reads. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. BOOKS DISCUSSED Dead, Dead Girls by Nekesa Afia My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows  Mooncakes by Suzanne Walker and Wendy Xu Reverie by Ryan La Sala The Afterward by EK Johnston The Okay Witch by Emma Steinkellner In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson Not Your Sidekick by CB Lee Flyy Girls series by Ashley Woodfolk Check, Please! By Ngozi Ukazu Dancing at the Pity Party by Tyler Feder The Golden Day by Ursula Dubosarsky First Day on Earth by Cecil Castellucci After Tupac and D Foster by Jacqueline Woodson #NotYourPrincess: Voices of Native American Women edited by Lisa Charleyboy and Mary Beth Leatherdale The Things She’s Seen by Ambelin Kwaymullina and  Ezekiel Kwaymullina See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

I See a Cat, I Like It

This week, Tirzah talks about her most anticipated fall 2021 YA releases, which end up being mostly unintentionally dark and murder-y. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books Discussed: Fresh by Margot Wood Emma by Jane Austen The Dead and the Dark by Courtney Gould Edie in Between by Laura Sibson Cheer Up: Love and Pom Poms by Crystal Fraiser and Val Wise Bad Witch Burning by Jessica Lewis Not Here to Be Liked by Michelle Quach White Smoke by Tiffany D. Jackson Allegedly by Tiffany D. Jackson Monday’s Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson Grown by Tiffany D. Jackson All These Bodies by Kendare Blake Within These Wicked Walls by Lauren Blackwood Vespertine by Margaret Rogerson How Not to Fall in Love by Jacqueline Firkins Black Birds in the Sky by Brandy Colbert See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

98.5: Extra Credit: Unintentionally Dark and Murder-y

On this episode of Hey YA, Tirzah chats with YA author Jacqueline Firkins about YA romance, our favorite rom-com tropes, and book dresses! Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books Discussed: Mansfield Park by Jane Austen Hearts, Strings, and Other Breakable Things by Jacqueline Firkins How Not to Fall in Love by Jacqueline Firkins Love and Other Foreign Words by Erin McCahan Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë The Lucky List by Rachael Lippincott Perfect on Paper by Sophie Gonzales Glimpsed by G.F. Miller Better Than the Movies by Lynn Painter Love is a Revolution by Renée Watson She Drives Me Crazy by Kelly Quindlen Perfectly Parvin by Olivia Abtahi Sunny Song Will Never Be Famous by Suzanne Park More great YA romances coming out January-June of 2021, and July-December 2021 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Heroines Don’t Always Have to Be Strong: YA Romance Chat with Jacqueline Firkins

This week, Tirzah re-reads two early YA books and talks about whether or not she would still recommend them today! Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books Discussed: Gingerbread by Rachel Cohn Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison Perfectly Parvin by Olivia Abtahi Gabi, a Girl in Pieces by Isabel Quintero See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

97.5: Extra Credit: Do These Early YA Reads Hold Up?

From great new books to favorite classic reads, from news to the latest in on-screen adaptations, Hey YA is here to elevate the exciting world of young adult lit.