Episode 11: If Judy Blume’s Characters Had Tumblr
Eric and Kelly discuss the big YA winners at this year’s Youth Media Awards and dig into the (very wrong) New York Times piece about the lack of sex in YA books.
Sponsored by The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert and Class of 2K18 .
Hey YA is available on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Play, and right here on Book Riot.
Show Notes:
Blood Water Paint by Joy McCullough
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
Piecing Me Together by Renee Watson
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
Bomb by Steven Sheinkin
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
We Are Okay by Nina LaCour
Vincent and Theo by Deborah Heiligman
Strange The Dreamer by Laini Taylor
The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt
You’re Welcome Universe by Whitney Gardner
First Part Last by Angela Johnson
Little and Lion by Brandy Colbert
The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater
The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee
Starfish by Akemi Dawn Bowman
All Systems Red by Martha Wells
The Clockwork Dynasty by Daniel H. Wilson
Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire
Electric Arches by Eve L. Ewing
A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea by Melissa Fleming
Malagash by Joey Comeau
Roughneck by Jeff Lemire
She Rides Shotgun by Jordan Harper
Things We Have in Common by Tasha Kavanagh
An Unkindness of Magicians by Kat Howard
That Sex in YA Books article from the New York Times
A Line in the Dark by Malinda Lo
Cherry by Lindsey Rosin
Uses For Boys by Erica Lorraine Scheidt
The V-Word edited by Amber J Keyser
The Duff by Kody Keplinger
The Summer Prince by Alaya Dawn Johnson
History is All You Left Me by Adam Silvera
Additional titles not discussed on the show:
Like Water by Rebecca Podos
Firsts by Laurie Elizabeth Flynn
The Moon and More by Sarah Dessen
The Infinite Moment of Us by Lauren Myracle
Biggest Flirts by Jennifer Echols
