Sunday, February 7, 2016

YA Bookish Buzz: February 1-6, 2016

Here's the latest news in the YA book world!

New Releases


Cover Reveals

Check out this wildly colorful cover for Tahereh Mafi's new middle grade novel,  Furthermore. Entertainment Weekly chatted with the author to find out more about this new project. You can read the interview HERE. It is set for release August 30, 2016. 


Teasers

Penguin Teen was kind enough to share a preview of Richelle Mead's new series, The Glittering Court. Check out the lengthy excerpt HERE.

Penguin Teen also shared the first two chapters of The Forbidden Wish by Jessica Khoury. You can read that HERE.

News

It was an exciting week for Lunar Chronicles fans. First, there was the release of Stars Above, the Lunar Chronicles novella collection that includes a highly anticipated epilogue to Winter. Marissa Meyer was on tour promoting the new release. Then, Meyer announced that she will be writing graphic novels that continue the stories of our favorite Lunar Chronicles characters! The first graphic novel is titled, Wires and Nerves, and will be from Iko's point of view. We'll have to wait to read these as release is set for January 2017. Full announcement HERE.

Erin Bowman will be writing a companion novel to her YA western story, Vengeance Road, titled Retribution Rails. Tentative release date is Fall 2017. Bowman answers a few questions about her new project HERE.

We're a little bit closer to finding out the release date for The Last Star. Rick Yancey shared this quote and date on Twitter.


And finally, some good news for book nerds that are eager to read Roshani Chokshi's debut novel, The Star-Touched Queen. Griffin Teen has pushed up the release date to April 26, 2016. 

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