#13: Sliding Into the YA Category's DMs

Eric and Kelly talk about this year’s slate of Norton Award titles and titles of years past, then dig into the differences between YA and middle grade, explore authors who write in both categories, and top it all off by highlighting YA with younger teen protagonists.

Sponsored by The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert and I Stop Somewhere by TE Carter.

Shownotes
The Astonishing Color of After by Emily XR Pan
The Beauty That Remains by Ashley Woodfolk
The Norton Awards list
Alice Mary Norton (Andre Norton)
Exo by Fonda Lee
The Art of Starving by Sam J Miller
Want by Cindy Pon
September Girls by Bennett Madison
Bone Gap by Laura Ruby
Shadowshaper by Daniel José Older
Dirty Wings by Sarah McCarry
Love is the Drug by Alaya Dawn Johnson
Glory O’Brien’s History of the Future by AS King
Updraft by Fran Wilde
Zeroboxer by Fonda Lee
Fair Coin by Eugene Myers
Seraphina by Rachel Hartman
So Done by Paula Chase
How To Make a Wish by Ashley Herring Blake
Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World by Ashley Herring Blake
Shug by Jenny Han
A Boy Called Bat by Elana K. Arnold
What Girls Are Made Of by Elana K. Arnold
The Careful Undressing of Love by Corey Ann Haydu
The Rules for Stealing Stars by Corey Ann Haydu
The Someday Suitcase by Corey Ann Haydu
The Girl in the Well is Me by Karen Rivers
All That Was by Karen Rivers
Forever or a Long Long Time by Caela Carter
My Life With The Liars by Caela Carter
The Crossover by Kwame Alexander
Solo by Kwame Alexander
Written In The Stars by Aisha Saeed
Amal Unbound by Aisha Saeed
The Dairy Queen by Catherine Gilbert Murdoch
The Book of Boy by Catherine Gilbert Murdoch
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
Patina by Jason Reynolds
Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi
Furthermore by Tahereh Mafi
Peas and Carrots by Tanita S. Davis
A Short History of the Girl Next Door by Jared Reck
Confessions of a High School Disaster: Chloe Snow’s Diary by Emma Chastain
Book of a Thousand Days by Shannon Hale
Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
Maresi by Maria Turtschaninoff
Half Brother by Kenneth Oppel
Estrella’s Quinceanara by Malin Alegria
The Librarian of Auschwitz by Antonio Iturbe