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Extra Credit: Domestic Arrangements by Norma Klein Jun 05, 2019

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Kelly talks about Norma Klein’s Domestic Arrangements, manipulative adults, and teen love on the first Hey YA: Extra Credit episode.

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Kirkus Review of Domestic Arrangements

Domestic Arrangements by Norma Klein

Hey YA Extra Credit schedule

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#44: I'm Not The Teen Who Makes It To The Epilogue May 29, 2019

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Eric and Kelly talk about abortion and reproductive rights in YA, highlight summer reads (and not in the way you imagine), and share their summer TBRs.

This episode is sponsored by Audible, Birthday by Meredith Russo, and BookCon.

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Show Notes

Domestic Arrangements by Norma Klein

Let Me Hear A Rhyme by Tiffany D. Jackson

The Exact Opposite of Okay by Laura Steven

Way To Go by Tom Ryan

We Hunt the Flame by Hasfah Faizel

Feral Youth by Shaun David Hutchinson

Eve of Man by Giovanna Fletcher and Tom Fletcher

I Know It’s Over by CK Kelly Martin

Finding Yvonne by Brandy Colbert

With The Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo

The Cheerleaders by Kara Thomas

Bright Burning Stars by AK Small

Ask Me How I Got Here by Christine Hepperman

Aftercare Instructions by Bonnie Pipkin

Things I Can’t Forget by Miranda Kenneally

The Truth About Alice by Jennifer Mathieu

What Every Girl Should Know: Margaret Sanger’s Journey by J. Albert Mann

Salt by Hannah Moskowitz

The Prince of Venice Beach by Blake Nelson

The Trouble with Destiny by Lauren Morrill

The Lake Effect by Erin McCahan

The Sandcastle Empire by Kayla Olson

How It Feels to Float by Helena Fox

The Lifeboat Clique by Kathy Parks

A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Tahereh Mafi

The Sound of Us by Ashley Poston

Start Here by Trish Doller

Dactyl Hill Squad by Daniel José Older

We Speak In Storms by Natalie Lund

I Wanna Be Where You Are by Kristina Forest

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#43: Precious Plant Nurturing Boys May 15, 2019

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Eric and Kelly talk about teens who love gardens and the outdoors, as well as the wave of excellent YA books about music hitting shelves this year.

This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, The Lost Coast by Amy Rose Capetta, and Again, But Better by Christina Riccio.

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Show Notes

Brave Face by Shaun David Hutchinson

I Hope You Get This Message by Farah Naz Rishi

We Hunt the Flame by Hafsah Faizal

Descendant of the Crane by Joan He

The Girl You Thought I Was by Rebecca Phillips

Switchback by Danika Stone

A Fierce and Subtle Poison by Samantha Mabry

Secret of a Heart Note by Stacey Lee

Bone Gap by Laura Ruby

Wicked Like a Wildfire by Lana Popovic

Lost Stars by Lisa Selin Davis

Blight by Alexandra Duncan

Wild Beauty by Anna-Marie McLemore

Dan vs. Nature by Don Calame

“The Heartland Trilogy” by Chuck Wendig

Spin by Lamar Giles

On The Come Up by Angie Thomas

Let Me Hear a Rhyme by Tiffany D. Jackson

In The Key of Nira Ghani by Natasha Deen

Somewhere Only We Know by Maurene Goo

Impossible Music by Sean Williams

You’d Be Mine by Erin Hahn

Night Music by Jenn Marie Thorne

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#42: A Penchant For Beheading Shoplifters May 01, 2019

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Eric, Kelly, and special guest Alyssa Wees talk about debut YA novels, dark fairy tales, and haunted billboards.

This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, The Lovely And The Lost by Jennifer Lynn Barnes, and TBR from Book Riot.

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Show Notes:

The Waking Forest by Alyssa Wees

White Rose by Kip Wilson

Bright Burning Stars by AK Small

Gravemaidens by Kelly Coon

Serious Moonlight by Jenn Bennett

I Hope You Get This Message by Farah Naz Rishi

Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

Field Guide to the North American Teenager by Ben Phillipe

The Opposite of Always by Justin A. Reynolds

We Set The Dark On Fire by Tehlor May Meija

The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly by Stephanie Oakes

Descendant of the Crane by Joan He

The Candle and the Flame by Nafiza Azad

Spectacle by Jodie Lynn Zdrok

House of Salt and Sorrows by Erin Craig

I Wanna Be Where You Are by Kristina Forest

The Tenth Girl by Sara Faring

Hot Dog Girl by Jennifer Dugan

Wicked Saints by Emily Duncan

You’d Be Mine by Erin Hahn

The Weight of Our Sky by Hanna Alkaf

More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera

The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner

Starfish by Akemi Bowman

Dear Martin by Nic Stone

The Astonishing Color of After by Emily X. R. Pan

Pan’s Labyrinth by Guillermo del Toro and Cornelia Funke

The Replacement by Brenna Yovanoff

Ash by Malinda Lo

Forest of a Thousand Lanterns by Julie C. Dao

Vassa in the Night by Sarah Porter

Keturah and Lord Death by Martine Leavitt

Wintersong by S Jae Jones

Hunted and Sherwood by Meagan Spooner

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#41: Everyone Dies At The Dance Apr 17, 2019

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Eric and Kelly talk about YA prom stories and great verse novels for National Poetry Month.

This episode is sponsored by Libro.fm, Never-Contented Things by Sarah Porter, and BookCon.

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Show Notes:

There’s Something About Sweetie by Sandhya Menon

We Are The Perfect Girl by Ariel Kaplan

With The Fire On High by Elizabeth Acevedo

Destroy All Monsters by Sam J Miller

#YAGoesToProm Tweets:

Prom Nights from Hell edited by Meg Cabot

21 Proms edited by David Levithan

The Anti-Prom by Abby McDonald

The Last Best Story by Maggie Lehrman

The Prom-Goer’s Interstellar Excursion by Chris McCoy

The Night of Your Life by Lydia Sharp

Deacon Locke Went to Prom by Brian Katcher

The Way You Make Me Feel by Maurene Goo

The Inside of Out by Jennifer Thorne

Promposal by Rhonda Helms

Leah On The Offbeat by Becky Albertalli

Bliss by Lauren Myracle

Tessa Masterson Will Go To Prom by Emily Franklin

Secret Heart by Danielle Drager

White Rose by Kip Wilson

Family by Micol Ostow

The Language of Fire: Joan of Arc Reimagined by Stephanie Hemphill

The Final Hours of Joan of Arc by David Elliott

I Felt a Funeral in my Brain by Wil Walton

In Paris with You by Clementine Beauvais

500 Words or Less by Juleah del Rosario

Mary’s Monster: Love, Madness, and How Mary Shelley Created Frankenstein by Lita Judge

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#40: The Corn Uprising Apr 03, 2019

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Eric and Kelly talk about climate fiction and YA books set all around the world.

This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, Inebriated, and Haphaven .

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Show Notes:

SHOUT by Laurie Halse Anderson

Pointe by Brandy Colbert

“Kidlit These Days” podcast

Wicked Fox by Kat Cho

You’d Be Mine by Erin Hahn

Ruse by Cindy Pon

Under the Never Sky by Veronica Rossi

After The Snow by SD Crockett

Orleans by Sherri L. Smith

Dry by Neal and Jarrod Shusterman

Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi

It’s Getting Hot In Here by Bridget Heos

Under the Empyrean Sky by Chuck Wendig

The Sandcastle Empire by Kayla Olson

Empty by Suzanne Weyn

Breathe by Sarah Crossan

The Water Wars by Cameron Stracher

Ashes, Ashes by Jo Treggiari

The Eleventh Plague by Jeff Hirsch

Not a Drop to Drink by Mindy McGinnis

Burn Out by Kristi Helvig

The Weight of Our Sky by Hanna Alkaf

Timekeeper by Tara Sim

Up To This Pointe by Jennifer Longo

Meant to Be by Lauren Morrill

I Love You So Mochi by Sarah Kuhn

Romancing the Dark in the City of Light by Ann Jacobus

A Girl Like That by Tanaz Bhathena

If You Could Be Mine by Sara Farizan

Notes From My Captivity by Kathy Parks

A Conspiracy of Us by Maggie Hall

The Astonishing Color of After by Emily X.R. Pan

Want by Cindy Pon

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#39: Gritty, The Gritty YA Novel Mar 20, 2019

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Eric and Kelly talk about YA adaptations of all stripes and share their spring YA TBRs.

This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, The Iliad by Gareth Hinds, and Chicken Girl by Heather Smith from Penguin Teen Canada.

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Show Notes:

Hungry Hearts edited by Elsie Chapman and Caroline Tung Richmond

It’s a Whole Spiel edited by Katherine Locke and Lauren Silverman

This Time Will Be Different by Misa Sigiura

The Weight Of Our Sky by Hanna Alkaf

I Don’t Want To Be Crazy by Samantha Shultz

Parkland by David Cullen

The Shadow Queen by CJ Redwine

A Long, Long Sleep by Anna Sheehan

Hunted by Meagan Spooner

Sherwood by Meagan Spooner

The Forest Queen by Betsy Cornwell

I, Claudia by Mary McCoy

Cinder by Marissa Meyer

Ash by Malinda Lo

Blanca and Roja by Anna-Marie McLemore

Forest of a Thousand Lanterns by Julie C. Dao

Stepsister by Jennifer Donnelly

Splintered by AG Howard

His Hideous Heart edited by Dahlia Adler

A Blade So Black by L.L. McKinney

A Sky Without Stars by Jessica Brody and Joanne Rendell

Heart of Iron by Ashley Poston

The Wrath and the Dawn by Renee Ahdieh

Ordinary Girls by Blair Thornburgh

Bookish Boyfriends: The Boy Next Door by Tiffany Schmidt

With The Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo

Forward Me Back to You by Mitali Perkins

Finding Yvonne by Brandy Colbert

All Of Us With Wings by Michelle Ruiz Keil

We Are The Perfect Girl by Ariel Kaplan

Somewhere Only We Know by Maurene Goo

Brave Face by Shaun David Hutchinson

There’s Something About Sweetie by Sandhya Menon

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#38: Death Metal Songs You Can Slow Dance To Mar 06, 2019

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Eric and Kelly talk about the YA books they’ve read that no one else has read and highlight a wealth of excellent teen books to read for Women’s History Month.

This episode is sponsored by Libro.fm, An Affair of Poisons by Addie Thorley, and Flatiron Books.

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Show Notes:

Amy Poehler taking Moxie to Netflix

The Art of Losing by Lizzy Mason

Internment by Samira Ahmed

Wicked Saints by Emily A. Duncan

Meet Me Here by Bryan Bliss

Calling My Name by Liara Tamani

Talker 25 by Joshua McCune

His Own Where by June Jordan

Autofocus by Lauren Gibaldi

Celine by Brock Cole

Toxic by Lydia Kang

The Island by Olivia Levez

Burn Out by Kristi Helvig

Since You Asked by Maurene Goo

Red Hood by Elana K. Arnold

Ginger Snaps

Here We Are: Feminism For The Real World edited by Kelly Jensen

Watch Us Rise by Renée Watson and Ellen Hagan

Glory O’Brien’s History of the Future by A.S. King:

SHOUT by Laurie Halse Anderson

All the Rage by Courtney Summers

We Set The Dark on Fire by Tehlor Kay Mejia

Beauty Queens by Libba Bray

Period Power by Nadya Okamoto

The Duff by Kody Keplinger

Votes for Women! By Winifred Conkling

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#36: The Backstreet Boys Have A New Album, Guys Feb 06, 2019

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Eric and Kelly offer up book recommendations when you don’t want to read a love story for Valentine’s Day, then they share awesome YA gift ideas for your Galentine.

This episode is sponsored by Book Riot’s TBR, The Me I Meant to Be and HMH Teen, and The Deceivers.

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(Our apologies, there were technical difficulties and the sound is a little off this week.)

Show Notes:

Bent Heavens by Daniel Kraus

Contagion by Erin Bowman

A Conspiracy of Stars by Olivia A. Cole

The Revolution of Birdie Randolph by Brandy Colbert

A Place for Wolves by Kosoko Jackson

Jackaby by William Ritter

Spin by Lamar Giles