YOWZA, it’s ADORBZ!
Eric and Kelly talk about love stories for YA readers, dig into the whys and hows of music and its power in YA lit, and offer up YA book recommendations for the Read Harder challenge.
Sponsored by Love, Hate, and Other Filters by Samira Ahmed and The Love Letters of Abelard & Lily by Laura Creedle.
Hey YA is available on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Play, and right here on Book Riot.
Shownotes
Heart of Ash by Kim Liggett
Along the Indigo by Elsie Chapman
The Wicked Deep by Shae Ernshaw
Three Sides of a Heart edited by Natalie C. Parker
The Girl Who Fell by S. M. Parker
Be True to Me by Adele Griffin
The Trouble with Destiny by Lauren Morrill
If You Could Be Mine by Sara Farizan
To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han (series)
The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han (series)
History is All You Left Me by Adam Sivera
Hit Makers by Derek Thompson
The Lucy Variations by Sara Zarr
For the Record by Charlotte Huang
The Carnival at Bray by Jessie Ann Foley
The Sound of Us by Ashley Poston
So Punk Rock (And Other Ways to Disappoint Your Mother) by Micol Ostow
Fireworks by Katie Cotungo
Noteworthy by Riley Redgate
On the Come Up by Angie Thomas
Bog Child by Siobhan Dowd
The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater
Relish by Lucy Knisley
The Summer Prince by Alaya Dawn Johnson
The Boy on the Bridge by Natalie Standiford
A Time to Dance by Padma Venkatraman
Boxers and Saints by Gene Lung Yang
Breathe by Sarah Crossan
The Distance Between Lost and Found by Kathryn Holmes
Under a Painted Sky by Stacey Lee
Vengeance Road by Erin Bowman
In Real Life by Jen Wang and Cory Doctorow
The Sun Is Also A Star by Nicola Yoon
Everything Everything by Nicola Yoon
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
A Hero Ain’t Nothin’ But A Sandwich by Alice Childress
Forever… by Judy Blume
His Own Where by June Jordan
Becoming Maria by Sonia Manzano
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
Unplugged by Donna Freitas (series)
Empress of a Thousand Skies by Rhoda Belleza
The Art of Secrets by James Klise
Complicit by Stephanie Kuehn
The V-Word edited by Amber Keyser
Here We Are: Feminism For The Real World edited by Kelly Jensen