#13: Sliding Into the YA Category's DMs
Eric and Kelly talk about this year’s slate of Norton Award titles and titles of years past, then dig into the differences between YA and middle grade, explore authors who write in both categories, and top it all off by highlighting YA with younger teen protagonists. Sponsored by The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert and I Stop Somewhere by TE Carter. Shownotes The Astonishing Color of After by Emily XR Pan The Beauty That Remains by Ashley Woodfolk The Norton Awards list Alice Mary Norton (Andre Norton) Exo by Fonda Lee The Art of Starving by Sam J Miller Want by Cindy Pon September Girls by Bennett Madison Bone Gap by Laura Ruby Shadowshaper by Daniel José Older Dirty Wings by Sarah McCarry Love is the Drug by Alaya Dawn Johnson Glory O’Brien’s History of the Future by AS King Updraft by Fran Wilde Zeroboxer by Fonda Lee Fair Coin by Eugene Myers Seraphina by Rachel Hartman So Done by Paula Chase How To Make a Wish by Ashley Herring Blake Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World by Ashley Herring Blake Shug by Jenny Han A Boy Called Bat by Elana K. Arnold What Girls Are Made Of by Elana K. Arnold The Careful Undressing of Love by Corey Ann Haydu The Rules for Stealing Stars by Corey Ann Haydu The Someday Suitcase by Corey Ann Haydu The Girl in the Well is Me by Karen Rivers All That Was by Karen Rivers Forever or a Long Long Time by Caela Carter My Life With The Liars by Caela Carter The Crossover by Kwame Alexander Solo by Kwame Alexander Written In The Stars by Aisha Saeed Amal Unbound by Aisha Saeed The Dairy Queen by Catherine Gilbert Murdoch The Book of Boy by Catherine Gilbert Murdoch Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds Patina by Jason Reynolds Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi Furthermore by Tahereh Mafi Peas and Carrots by Tanita S. Davis A Short History of the Girl Next Door by Jared Reck Confessions of a High School Disaster: Chloe Snow’s Diary by Emma Chastain Book of a Thousand Days by Shannon Hale Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson Maresi by Maria Turtschaninoff Half Brother by Kenneth Oppel Estrella’s Quinceanara by Malin Alegria The Librarian of Auschwitz by Antonio Iturbe See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.