Burnt Toast

Eric and Kelly talk about this year’s winners of the Youth Media Awards and highlight great YA by Black authors coming soon. This episode is sponsored by The Handsell, Echoes Between Us by Katie McGarry, and Scammed by Kristen Simmons. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! SHOW NOTES Don’t Read The Comments by Eric Smith Heretics Anonymous by Katie Henry One Of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus Ghost Squad by Claribel Ortega 2020 Youth Media Awards The New Kid by Jerry Craft Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga Ordinary Hazards by Nikki Grimes Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me by Mariko Tamaki Field Guide to the North American Teen by Ben Phillippe That Dedication Free Lunch by Rex Ogle Amelia Bloomer/RISE Project Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All by Laura Ruby With The Fire On High by Elizabeth Acevedo All American Muslim Girl by Nadine Jolie Courtney Rebel Girls by Elizabeth Keenan The Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali by Sabina Kahn The Grace Year by Kim Liggett Watch Us Rise by Renee Watson and Ellen Hagen SHOUT by Laurie Halse Anderson The Stars and the Blackness Between Them by Junauda Petrus Genesis Begins Again by Alicia D. Williams Cursed by Karol Ruth Silverstein The Silence Between Us by Alison Gervais The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta Hearts Unbroken by Cynthia Leitich Smith Red White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston Not So Pure and Simple by Lamar Giles The Voting Booth by Brandy Colbert The Only Black Girls in Town by Brandy Colbert The Sound of Stars by Alechia Dow All The Things We Never Knew by Liara Tamani When You Were Everything by Ashley Woodfolk We Used To Be Friends by Amy Spalding You Should See Me In A Crown by Leah Johnson A Phoenix First Must Burn by Patrice Caldwell See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices