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Episode 11: If Judy Blume’s Characters Had Tumblr

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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