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Eric and Kelly talk about recent YA releases that you may have missed, great explorations of friendship in YA, and highlight some 2019 titles to get on your radar.

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Show Notes:

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

Bonnie and Clyde by Karen Blumenthal

The Quiet You Carry by Nikki Barthelmess

Rayne and Delilah’s Midnite Matinee by Jeff Zentner

Nightingale by Amy Lukavics

American Road Trip by Patrick Flores-Scott

Someone Like Me: How An Undocumented Girl Fought For Her American Dream by Julissa Arce

500 Words or Less by Juleah del Rosario (Related: “Gabrielle Union acquires rights“)

Analee, In Real Life by Janelle Milanes

The Victoria in My Head by Janelle Milanes

An Assassin’s Guide to Love & Treason by Virginia Boecker

Wildlife by Fiona Wood

Over You by Amy Reed

What about intersectionality and female friendship in YA?” by Brandy Colbert

Since You Asked by Maurene Goo

When You Were Everything by Ashley Woodfolk

We’ll Fly Away by Bryan Bliss

Burn for Burn (series) by Jenny Han and Siobhan Vivian

Jack of Hearts (And Other Parts) by LC Rosen

Since You’ve Been Gone by Morgan Matson

Chasing Shadows by Swati Avasthi

Lumberjanes by Noelle Stevenson, et al. 

Exit, Pursued by a Bear by EK Johnston

The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness

Opposite of Always by Justin A. Reynolds

Teeth in the Mist by Dawn Kurtagich

Ruse by Cindy Pon

Trans Mission: My Quest to a Beard by Alex Bertie

Gilded Wolves by Roshani Chokshi

Hot Dog Girl by Jennifer Dugan

Symptoms of a Heartbreak by Sona Charaipotra

The Revolution of Birdie Randolph by Brandy Colbert

Watch Us Rise by Renee Watson and Ellen Hagan