Over on Book Riot this week…

• The top YA horror books on Goodreads.

 

• An exciting announcement about an upcoming short form podcast I’m doing — every other week this summer, tune in for talk about Norma Klein and her legacy in YA lit.

 

• Marie Kondo is writing a picture book, with illustrations from award-winning illustrator Salina Yoon.

 

On Book Riot this week…

• Excellent and creepy horror enamel pins.

 

• North Dakota will build the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in 2020.

 

• Removable vintage wallpaper is a big home decor trend right now, so naturally, I pulled together some literary and comic removable wallpaper.

 

Two podcasts this week! Eric and I talked about plant-loving teens and the rise of music in 2019 YA books on Hey YA, and I cohosted All The Books with Liberty this week, highlighting so many great books across a variety of genres and categories. If you like historical disease books….we really offer up a pile of books about the plague.

 

I forgot last week to link to my recent work at School Library Journal: here are 8 YA BookTubers you’ll want to know!

 

Over on Book Riot this week…

 

• Ohio policy change impacts used book donations to the incarcerated.

 

• 50 must read YA books about sports.

 

Over on Book Riot this week…

 

• A look at the longest YA book series you can read.

 

• The Baby-Sitters Club is coming to audiobook in August.

 

This week’s episode of Hey YA features a really fun guest, Alyssa Wees, author of the recently-released The Waking Forest. Eric, Alyssa, and I go deep into debut YA novels we love, as well as dive into dark fairy tales. This is a fun episode!

 

I had the pleasure of being a guest on the Ladies of the Fright podcast last week as well, talking about the Summer Scares program, as well as horror for young readers more broadly. I’m talking about my own history with horror, my life in libraries, and, of course, the three YA books selected as Summer Scares picks this year. Tune in here.

 

Over on Book Riot this week…

• How you can help Nyesha Stone collect 1,000 books by authors of color for Milwaukee Public Schools.

 

• The funniest and weirdest damaged library book stories.

 

I was also a guest this week on the Emerson College PubCast podcast, talking about my career in books.