Adaptation Updates, Book Award Finalists, and More YA Book News
⚓ Books 📅 2026-04-02 👤 surdeus 👁️ 2May your rain boots be shiny and your umbrella at the ready as we stretch into the glorious month of April. March brought a little bit of everything in terms of young adult literature news, including upcoming releases to get excited about from big-name writers and adaptation news galore.
Gather your favorite beverage and get cozy. It’s time to catch up with the latest from the world of YA news.
- Let’s begin with the most anticipated science fiction and fantasy YA releases for March and April.
- Want more than just the most anticipated science fiction and fantasy YA? How about all of the YA SFF that hit shelves last month? Here you go!
- In early March, I had the honor and delight to talk with Markus Zusak about the 20th anniversary of The Book Thief. You can tune into the Book Riot Podcast to hear our conversation (and you’ll likely see the transcript of it in the future via the newsletter, too, if podcasts aren’t your usual medium).
- On the topic of YA books celebrating major milestone anniversaries, The Guardian put together a nice package in honor of the 25th anniversary of Malorie Blackman’s Noughts & Crosses.
- Here’s everything we know so far about the upcoming The Summer I Turned Pretty movie.
- Season Two of A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder will hit Netflix sometime later this year, as filming has wrapped up. There will be a new mystery at the center (and readers can probably guess that it’s based on the second book in Holly Jackson’s series).
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