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YA Adaptation News

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• great writers for young readers Jane Yolen dies at the age of 87. He wrote more than 400 (!!!) books in his lifetime, which is incredible.
• everyone is here YA science fiction and fantasy titles that will go on sale in JuneWhich means you can pick them all up right now.
• In mid-June, youth learned that Tyra Banks had written a YA novel modellandWhich was some fun to read. Remember this was supposed to be a trilogy and they devoted at least an entire episode of America’s Next Top Model to making a trailer for the series that never came to be. One of the highlights of the 2026 resurgence in the book is this excerpt book related songs And about this piece how bad is the book really.
• I love deep dive pieces like this How YA Jewish Authors Are Expanding Jewish StorytellingWhich came from a panel discussion at New York Comic Con.
• Trang Thanh Tran has a new novel coming out in February, and you can read an excerpt from it Tess Pham’s summons right here.
• rosie let’s talk about thor Centering queer voices in YA literature.
• Have you ever wondered how YA superstars Tiffany D. Jackson, Dhonielle Clayton, Nick Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, and Nicola Yoon managed to write three books at once? they break it!
• In the land of surprising announcements, EL James is writing a YA novel. you can pick up ghost land In October.
• For fans of fence comics, good news: You’ll be able to pick up the deluxe volume starting soon fence book one this fall.
• Jennifer Duggar talks about the need-or-not Happily Ever After in YA Romance And how she adapted it to her most recent novel.
• Remember late last year, I wrote an article about how the YA genre is facing a coming-of-age crisis, and as part of it, I talked about two YA series that were repackaged as adult series? Now a third YA series is being adapted into an adult seriesAnd this is Victoria Aveyard’s “Realm Breaker” trilogy.
• Here’s a big old roundup New YA Books About Consciousness, Activism, and Empathy.
• Meg Cabot’s princess diary turned 25, and It’s getting the graphic novel treatment.
• YA author Farida Ebike-Iyimede has written a guest post on Kathleen Schmidt’s Substack and it’s really good. This is a look at how the publishing industry markets its young writers-And it immediately made me think of the industry’s perception of Cody Keplinger and others in the 2010s and their youth.
• Every year, Read with Jenna brings together recommended summer reads for young people. Here’s this summer’s listWhich also includes a handful of YA picks.

And the big news related to these parts? We’ve debated and developed our own list of some of the best YA books of the century so far. Next week, we’ll also be sharing the best YA books of the year so far — already, there’s another title I’d add to my picks if I’d read it before our deadline, so I’m excited to talk about that too.