Hey YA
342 episodes - English - Latest episode: 12 days ago - ★★★★ - 154 ratingsFrom 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.
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Hey YA Extra Credit: Books to Read for Mer-May
May 03, 2023 10:00 - 10 minutesThis week, Tirzah recommends three YA books about mermaids and merfolk to get you excited for the release of Disney’s live action The Little Mermaid and to celebrate Mer-May! Subscribe to 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! BookRiot.com co-founder Jeff O’Neal explores the wide bookish world. Interviews, lists, rankings, retrospectives, recommendations, and much more, featuring peop...
YA Fantasy Worlds We’d Live In vs Ones We Wouldn’t
April 26, 2023 10:00 - 57 minutesTirzah and Erica discuss some fantastical worlds in YA they’d want to live in versus ones they’d rather not. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Show Notes: The Deep Dive newsletter News: Twilight TV Series announced Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko Tortall series by Tamora Pierce Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger Lum...
Extra Credit: We Stan a Warrior Queen — Arab American YA
April 19, 2023 10:00 - 12 minutesErica celebrates Arab American History month by sharing some YA books by Arab American authors. Subscribe to 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: The Deep Dive newsletter Mirage by Somaiya Daud Like a Love Story by Abdi Nazemian We Hunt the Flame by Hafsah Faiza...
I Want That On My Headstone: YA Novels In Verse
April 12, 2023 10:00 - 1 hourTirzah and Erica discuss some YA novels in verse for National Poetry Month. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Show Notes: The Deep Dive newsletter News: Two more Heartstopper graphic novels The history of YA novels in verse: Sonya Sones, Stop Pretending (1999), What My Mother Doesn’t Know (2001), One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies (...
Hey YA Extra Credit: New YA Novellas
April 05, 2023 10:00 - 13 minutesThis week, Tirzah talks about the trend of YA novellas and some recent novellas releases that should be on your radar! Subscribe to 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: Love, Creekwood by Becky Albertalli The Gentleman’s Guide to Getting Lucky by Mackenzi L...
Book Club: All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir
March 29, 2023 10:00 - 1 hourTirzah and Erica discuss the book All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Show Notes: The Deep Dive newsletter We Were Liars adaptation Kodansha launching a manga app this year All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Hey YA Extra Credit: Graphic Nonfiction
March 22, 2023 10:00 - 16 minutesThis week Erica discusses some YA graphic nonfiction books that are helping her reach her reading goals. Subscribe to 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: Sign up for The Deep Dive! In Limbo by Deb JJ Lee Hidden Systems: Water, Electricity, the Internet, and the...
Beware the Ides of March
March 15, 2023 10:00 - 1 hourTirzah and Erica discuss some YA Shakespeare retellings. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Show Notes: These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong Speak Easy, Speak Love by McKelle George Bright Ruined Things by Samantha Cohoe Twelfth Grade Night, Saving Hamlet , King Cheer by Molly Horton Booth Street Love by Walter Dean Myers The Only Thing Worse That...
Hey YA Extra Credit: What Real Teens Are Reading
March 08, 2023 11:00 - 13 minutesThis week, Tirzah discusses some of the YA books that are most popular with the teens she works with! Subscribe to 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: The Lesbiana’s Guide to Catholic School by Sonora Reyes Sadie by Courtney Summers All Your Twisted Secrets by D...
Getting All Up in Our Little Women Feelings
March 01, 2023 11:00 - 1 hourTirzah and Erica discuss some YA historical fiction with strong female leads. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. SHOW NOTES: The Degenerates by J. Albert Mann Angel Of Greenwood by Randi Pink The Silence of Bones, The Forest of Stolen Girls, and The Red Palace by June Hur The Downstairs Girl by Stacey Lee A Spy in the House by Y.S. Lee So Many Begi...
Hey YA Extra Credit: People Be People-ing — New Releases by Black Authors to TBR
February 22, 2023 11:00 - 14 minutesErica discusses some new YA books of different genres by Black authors to have on your radar for the first part of the year. Subscribe to 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 The Davenports by Krystal Marquis Blood Debts by Terry J. Benton-Walker We Are All S...
Love is for Losers: Diverse Romance That We Love
February 15, 2023 11:00 - 59 minutesTirzah and Erica discuss some diverse YA romance books to read for the month of love and beyond. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. SHOW NOTES: Come Work for us! We’re hiring a Full-Stack Web Developer. Details here. New Twilight books! Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute by Talia Hibbert Hani and Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating by Adiba Jaigirdar Regg...
Hey YA Extra Credit: The ALA Youth Media Awards!
February 08, 2023 11:00 - 15 minutesIt's the most wonderful time of the year—the ALA Youth Media Awards have been announced! This week, Tirzah takes us through the YA highlights. Subscribe to 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: All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir Scout's Honor by Lily Anderson Icebrea...
Queer Friendships in YA
February 01, 2023 11:00 - 53 minutesErica and Tirzah talk about YA books with great examples of queer friendship. Subscribe to 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: Give the gift of TBR! Come Work for us! We’re hiring an Ad Ops Associate and a Full-Stack Web Developer. Details here. As You Walk On B...
Hey YA Extra Credit: Dastardly Dystopias
January 25, 2023 11:00 - 10 minutesErica talks about a couple YA dystopian novels she’s been into lately. Subscribe to 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: Gift TBR! The Good Luck Girls by Charlotte Nicole Davis The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphon...
Fantasy Feels
January 18, 2023 11:00 - 1 hourTirzah and Erica get all in their fantasy feels and share their favorite YA fantasy. Subscribe to 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: Give the gift of TBR! They Both Die at the End Series Being Made Lumatere Chronicles by Melina Marchetta Jujutsu Kaisen by Gege ...
Hey YA Extra Credit: New Books About Teen Parenthood
January 11, 2023 11:00 - 12 minutesThis week, Tirzah highlights three new 2023 releases that are all about teen parenthood. Subscribe to 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: 16 & Pregnant by Lala Thomas Sun Keep Rising by Kristen R. Lee Unexpecting by Jen Bailey Learn more about your ad choices. V...
Most Anticipated YA Books for 2023
January 04, 2023 11:00 - 56 minutesTirzah and Erica discuss some YA books coming out in the first half of 2023 that they’re super excited about. Subscribe to 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: The 2023 Reading Log! Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute by Talia Hibbert The Lake House by Sarah Bet...
Extra Credit: Cozy YA Books to Snuggle Up With
December 28, 2022 11:00 - 13 minutesErica goes over a few cozy YA books she’s reading to while away the winter with. Subscribe to 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 Goldie Vance by Hope Larson and Brittney Williams Marvel Meow by Nao Fuji Check, Please! by Ngozi Ukazu Pride and Premeditation by Ti...
The Best YA We Read in 2022!
December 21, 2022 11:00 - 54 minutesThis week, Tirzah and Erica talk about some of the best YA books they read this year. Subscribe to 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: 2023 William C. Morris finalists Visit mytbr.co/gift to give the gift of books A Thousand Steps into Night by Traci Chee The L...
Hey YA: Get These Short Graphic Novels on Your Radar
December 14, 2022 11:00 - 11 minutesThis week, Tirzah talks about two great queer YA graphic novels for your end-of-the-year reading! Subscribe to 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 Twelfth Grade Night by Molly Booth, Stephanie Kate Strohm, and Jamie Green Hollow by Shannon Watters, Branden Boyer-...
It's a Backlist Bonanza!
December 07, 2022 11:00 - 53 minutesThis week, Tirzah and Erica are throwing it back by talking about a bunch of backlist titles that you don’t want to miss! Subscribe to 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: Annabelle’s Book Club has opened in LA Visit mytbr.co/gift to give the gift of books Troubl...
Can You Guess Which Shakespeare Plays These YA Novels were Inspired By?
November 30, 2022 11:00 - 10 minutesErica talks about a few new, fantastical YA novels that were inspired by Shakespeare plays. Subscribe to 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: An Arrow to the Moon by Emily X.R. Pan Bright Ruined Things by Samantha Cohoe Foul Lady Fortune by Chloe Gong Lear...
Reading in a Tropey Wonderland
November 23, 2022 11:00 - 52 minutesTirzah and Erica discuss a few cozy YA books set during the holidays. Subscribe to 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 National Book Awards Winner of Young People’s Literature Award All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir Whiteout by Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, ...
New Indigenous YA Books for Your TBR
November 16, 2022 11:00 - 11 minutesThis week, Tirzah shares two newer YA books by Indigenous authors for Native American Heritage Month. Subscribe to 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 AND LINKS DISCUSSED; The Summer of Bitter and Sweet by Jen Ferguson Walking in Two Worlds by Wab Kinew Firekeeper’s...
We Love a Good Revenge Story
November 09, 2022 11:00 - 1 hourThis week, Tirzah and Erica have a (spoiler-y!) discussion of their buddy read of The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D. Jackson! Subscribe to 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: The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D. Jackson White Smoke by Tiffany D. Jackson Carrie by ...
Extra Credit: Indigenous Graphic Novels
November 02, 2022 10:00 - 13 minutesErica kicks off Native American Heritage Month by talking about a few YA graphic novels by Indigenous authors that everyone should pick up. Subscribe to 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 Pemmican Wars by Katherena Vermette, illustrated by Scott B. Henderson ...
Ghouls Just Wanna Have Fun: YA Horror Books for Spooky SZN
October 26, 2022 10:00 - 1 hourTirzah and Erica lean into spooky season and discuss some YA horror novels they’ve been loving or looking forward to reading. Subscribe to 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 Hayley Kiyoko To Write YA Novel Based on Hit Song Enter to win Book Riot’s Reading the...
Hey YA Extra Credit: October Reading at Its Finest
October 19, 2022 10:00 - 13 minutesThis week, Tirzah shares what new titles are on her seasonal October reading list! Subscribe to 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 The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D. Jackson Hollow by Shannon Watters, Branden Boyer, and Berenice Nelle The Taking of Jake Livingst...
We Hope You’re Hungry: Delectable Foodie YA Fiction
October 12, 2022 10:00 - 56 minutesThis week, Erica and Tirzah share some of the most mouth-watering foodie fiction in YA! Subscribe to 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 National Book Award finalists are in! Cover reveal of Ibi Zoboi’s Nigeria Jones Six Crimson Cranes by Elizabeth Lim Hungry He...
Hey YA Extra Credit: Fun-Sized Stories
October 05, 2022 10:00 - 10 minutesThis week, Erica discusses a couple YA short story collections worth picking up and adding to your TBR. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books Discussed: A Phoenix Must First Burn, edited by Patrice Caldwell Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens by Marieke Nijkamp Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
It’s Latine Month!
September 28, 2022 10:00 - 40 minutesTirzah and Erica discuss some fab YA books by Latine authors to read for Latine Heritage Month and beyond. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books and Links: Reading the Stars by Book Riot Reading the Stars giveaway National Book Award for Young People’s Literature Longlist announced Self-Made Boys by Anna Marie-McLemore The Lesbiana’s Guide to C...
Take Action This Banned Books Week
September 21, 2022 10:00 - 14 minutesThis week, Tirzah shares some thoughts on Banned Books Week and how to take action beyond “read banned books.” Subscribe to 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: How to Fight Book Bans Banned Books Week Official Website Learn more about your ad choices. Visit meg...
It’s Pumpkin Spice O’Clock!
September 14, 2022 10:00 - 54 minutesThis week, Tirzah and Erica talk about all the things that bring fall vibes to their reading lists! Subscribe to 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 and Links: Enola Holmes 2 is coming! Enola Holmes and the Elegant Escapade by Nancy Springer Pumpkinheads by Rainbow R...
Hey YA Extra Credit: Am I the Villain?? And Other Important Questions in YA
September 07, 2022 10:00 - 15 minutesErica discusses some fun and unique graphic novels and manga — both new and a little older — that she’s been reading lately. Subscribe to 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: The Girl from the Other Side by Nagabe Squire by Sara Alfageeh and Nadia Shammas O...
Audiobook Narrators Who Always Understand the Assignment
August 31, 2022 13:00 - 57 minutesThis week, Tirzah and Erica talk about some their favorite audiobook narrators. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Show Notes: A Cuban Girl’s Guide to Tea and Tomorrow is being made into a movie! Books narrated by Frankie Corzo post Frankie Corzo: What I Wan...
Hey YA Extra Credit: Big Sequel Energy
August 24, 2022 10:00 - 15 minutesThis week, Tirzah talks about all the sequels she actually got around to reading this summer! Subscribe to 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: All Our Hidden Gifts, The Gifts That Bind Us, and Every Gift a Curse by Caroline O’Donoghue This Poison Heart and ...
TikTok Made Us Do It
August 17, 2022 10:00 - 50 minutesThis week, Erica and Tirzah read some of the most popular books on TikTok and talk about their insights into why some of these books are so popular among users. Subscribe to 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: First Kill has been canceled at Netflix Most popula...
Hey YA Extra Credit: Books About Artists
August 10, 2022 10:00 - 14 minutesErica discusses a couple books that center artists and their journey. Subscribe to 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: Blank Canvas: My So-Called Artist’s Journey by Akiko Higashimura, translated by Jenny McKeon Starfish by Akemi Dawn Bowman Learn more about y...
She’s Got a Whole Mortuary in Her Closet
August 03, 2022 10:00 - 53 minutesTirzah and Erica discuss the books they’re most excited to read that are coming out in the fall. Subscribe to 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 Sanaa Lathan directing adaptation of On the Come Up by Angie Thomas Try a demo of the Insiders Index Well, That Was ...
Hey YA Extra Credit: Spoiler Alert, We Love THE SUMMER I TURNED PRETTY
July 27, 2022 10:00 - 13 minutesThis week, Tirzah shares all her (spoiler-free!) thoughts on the Amazon Prime adaptation of Jenny Han’s The Summer I Turned Pretty! Subscribe to 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: The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han It’s Not Summer Without You by Jenny Han...
Happy Disability Pride Month!
July 20, 2022 19:03 - 59 minutesThis week, Erica and Tirzah recommend YA books for Disability Pride Month! Subscribe to 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 I Kissed Shara Wheeler by Casey McQuiston is an inaugural Walmart Book Club Pick Eddie Ndopu on what makes a space accessible The State of ...
Extra Credit: Road Trippin'
July 13, 2022 10:00 - 12 minutesErica discusses a few YA novels that have road trips at their core. 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: The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzie Lee I Wanna Be Where You Are by Kristina Forest Me (Moth) by Amber McBride Lulu and Milagro’s Search for Clarity by Angela Velez Learn more about your ad choi...
From Catholic School to Demons, Here Are the Best Books of 2022 (So Far)
July 06, 2022 10:00 - 1 hourTirzah and Erica discuss some of the best books they’ve read in 2022. Subscribe to 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 and Sites Discussed: Digital Marketing Manager position Locus award winners Barnes & Noble Best Books of the Year (So Far) 2022 72 Most Popular Books...
Reproductive Freedom is a YA Issue
June 29, 2022 10:00 - 13 minutesThis week, Tirzah recommends three YA novels about reproductive freedom. Subscribe to 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: Unpregnant by Jenni Hendriks and Ted Caplan Aftercare Instructions by Bonnie Pipkin Girls Like Us by Rani Pink Learn more about your ad...
Free Books For All!
June 22, 2022 10:00 - 54 minutesThis week, Erica and Tirzah discuss some great resources for free YA books for teens this summer! Subscribe to 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 and Sites Discussed: Queer book sales surge with YA books leading the way NYPL is giving away 500,000 books Riveted Lit T...
It’s Giving Zendaya As Joan of Arc: Retellings for Hey YA Extra Credit
June 15, 2022 10:00 - 18 minutesErica discusses a couple new YA books that retell familiar stories in new and interesting ways. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books Discussed: One for All by Lillie Lainoff Alice in Kyoto Forest by by Mai Mochizuki, illustrated by Haruki Niwa Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Let’s Talk About Asexuality in YA!
June 08, 2022 10:00 - 1 hourTirzah and Erica celebrate Pride Month by discussing some great YA books that center asexual people and characters. Subscribe to 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. Links Discussed: We’re hiring a Digital Marketing Manager! Applications are due July 10, 2022, 8:45pm Pacific...
Happy Pride, YA Readers!
June 01, 2022 10:00 - 13 minutesThis week, Tirzah kicks off Pride Month with a bunch of recommendations of 2022 LGBTQ+ YA releases! Subscribe to 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 Nothing Burns as Bright as You by Ashley Woodfolk The Lesbiana’s Guide to Catholic School by Sonora Reyes Jus...
Excellent YA Graphic Memoirs
May 25, 2022 10:00 - 50 minutesErica and Tirzah talk about graphic memoirs for YA readers and how this comics format makes for some great nonfiction storytelling! Subscribe to 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. Links and Books Discussed: House to hold hearing on classroom censorship Read the letter from...