Day: November 1, 2019

Publisher’s Weekly Best Teen Books of 2019

| Tasha

Publisher’s Weekly publishes a list of the best books every year. Here are their picks for the best teen reads of 2019:

Angel Mage The Downstairs Girl

Angel Mage by Garth Nix

The Downstairs Girl by Stacey Lee

Gravity Kiss Number 8

Gravity by Sarah Deming

Kiss Number 8 by Colleen AF Venable, illustrated by Ellen T. Crenshaw

The Last True Poets of the Sea Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me

The Last True Poets of the Sea by Julia Drake

Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me by Mariko Tamaki, illustrated by Rosemary Valero-O’Connell

Ordinary Girls Out of Salem

Ordinary Girls by Blair Thornburgh

Out of Salem by Hal Schrieve

Patron Saints of Nothing Pet

Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay

Pet by Akwaeke Emezi

Shout Slay

Shout by Laurie Halse Anderson

Slay by Brittney Morris

Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia Voices: The Final Hours of Joan of Arc

Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia by Marc Favreau

Voices: The Final Hours of Joan of Arc by David Elliott

The Waning Age We Rule the Night

The Waning Age by S.E. Grove

We Rule the Night by Claire Eliza Bartlett

With the Fire on High

With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo

News to Wake Your Brain Cells – Nov 1

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CHILDREN’S BOOKS

5 reasons your child should read graphic novels – Today

21 Best Kids Movies Coming Out in 2020 – Country Living

Children’s and teens roundup: best new picture books and novels – The Guardian

LIBRARIES

The 5 best library perks you’re not taking advantage of – Yahoo!

The complicated role of the modern public library – Humanities

Leander, TX library director loses job for hosting pride story time – Book Riot

What can schools learn from the successful transformation of public libraries – EdSurge

YA LIT

The 18 most anticipated YA books to read in November – Epic Reads

20 must-read YA books with disabled characters – Book Riot

All the new young adult SFF books coming out in November – Tor

Camryn Garrett’s favorite sex-positive YA books – Bookish

Jason Reynolds is on a mission – New York Times

Make Me Your Villain: Shelby Mahurin on the cathartic experience of writing an antihero – Bookish