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• Jane Yolen, a legendary author for young readers, has died at the age of 87. She wrote over 400 (!!!) books in her lifetime, which is amazing.
• Here are all the YA sci-fi and fantasy titles coming out in June. That means you can get it all right now.
• In mid-June, the young man discovered that Tyra Banks was writing a YA novel. model landa fun read was born. Remember, this was supposed to be a trilogy, but she spent at least one full episode of America’s Next Top Model creating a trailer for the series, which never happened. One of the highlights of the 2026 resurgence in the book is this article about songs related to the book and this article about how bad the book actually is.
• I love in-depth articles like this one, which came out of a panel discussion at New York Comic Con, and looks at how YA Jewish authors develop Jewish stories.
• Trang Thanh Tran’s new novel will be published in February. You can read an excerpt. Summoning of Tess Pham Here it is.
• Rosie Thor talks about the centrality of aromatic voices in YA literature.
• Have you ever wondered how YA superstars Tiffany D. Jackson, Donyell Clayton, Nick Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfork, and Nicola Yoon co-authored three books? They destroy it!
• In this land of surprising announcements, EL James writes YA novels. can be picked up land of ghosts In October.
• For fans of fence Comics, good news: You’ll soon be able to purchase deluxe volumes starting with . fence book 1 This fall.
• Jennifer Dugar talks about the need, or need, for a happy eternity in YA romance, and how she approaches it in her latest novel.
• Remember late last year when I wrote about the YA category facing a coming-of-age crisis and talked about two YA series being repackaged as adult series as part of that? Now, there’s a third YA series that’s been reborn as an adult series: Victoria Aveyard’s Realm Breaker trilogy.
• Here’s a big roundup of new YA books about consciousness, activism, and empathy.
• and Cabot’s princess diary Now 25 years old, it’s being treated like a graphic novel.
• YA author Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé guest posts on Kathleen Schmidt’s Substack. really good. It’s about how the publishing industry commodifies young writers, and it immediately reminded me of the obsession the publishing industry had with Cody Keplinger and other writers and their young people in the 2010s.
• Every year, Read With Jenna compiles recommended summer reads for young people. Here’s a list for this summer with some YA picks.

And any big news regarding these parts? We’ve been discussing and compiling a list of the best YA books of the century. Next week, I’ll also be highlighting the best YA books of the year so far. As I was reading before the deadline, I already had one more title to add to my selection, so I’m looking forward to talking about that as well.