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Hey YA — 344 episodes
The Cat’s Out of the Bag: This Is Our Last Episode
Colombo Had the Right Idea: Interviews with Author Mariko Tamaki, Illustrator Nicole Goux and Author Hannah V. Sawyerr
That Was Extremely Libra of You: September's Best New YA Releases
All Thrills, No Chill: New YA Books for Spooky Season, Plus an Interview With Author Candace Fleming
Anywhere There's a Court, There's Mess: New YA Books For August
Interview with Frederick Joseph (THIS THING OF OURS), Plus Queer YA Graphic Novels
Tiny Dragons & Giant Cats
History and Politics in YA Fiction with L.M. Elliott
"We Are Each Others' Safes": A Conversation with Jason Reynolds [Rerun]
An Interview with WE WERE LIARS author E. Lockhart & Reflections on NIMONA at 10
New YA Books by AAPI Authors and an Interview With Erin Entrada Kelly and Kwame Mbalia, Authors of ON AGAIN, AWKWARD AGAIN
A Few New Books and Revisiting a Great Past Episode
An Interview With Huda Fahmy, Plus Cute YA Books to Read as It Gets Warmer
The Threat of an Exorcism: April's Best YA New Releases
"Nothing Is Original" An Interview with Ava Reid — Plus New YA Graphic Novels to Read This Year
That Cover Goes B-A-N-A-N-A-S: YA Books Out in March to TBR
Book Club Discussion: Sweet Valley High #1, Double Love
"Books Connect You to a Common Experience": An Interview with Gayle Forman
Let’s Talk About Demons: February's Best YA Book Releases
Revenge All the Way Down: The Best YA Books Out in January
"We Are Each Others' Safes": A Conversation with Jason Reynolds
"I'm Optimistic Because It Saved My Life" [rerun]
Hey YA Extra Credit: Start the Year Off With These YA Fantasy Graphic Novels and Comics
I Like a Little Depression Now and Then: Our Favorite YA Books of 2024
Hey YA Extra Credit: 2025 YA Anthologies
Thar Be Monsters: Some of December's Best YA Releases
Hey YA Extra Credit: "Adults Have Always Been Threatened by Children's Autonomy"
Jingle-Jangle Flavored Things: The Holiday Recs Episode
Hey YA Extra Credit: The NYPL's 50 Best YA Books
The Kind of Petty I Subscribe To
Hey YA Extra Credit: New Native American YA Books
"I'm Optimistic Because It Saved My Life"
Hey YA Extra Credit: Let's Get Scared
The Snuggle Potential: The Best YA Books Out in October
Hey YA Extra Credit: New and Spooky YA Graphic Novels to Read This Month
NYPL Launches Teen Banned Book Club and Lamar Giles Talks About New Book RUIN ROAD
Hey YA Extra Credit: Foodie Romances
I Went With Cannibalism: The New Must-Read YA Books of September
Hey YA Extra Credit: Let's Go Back to School With Dark Academia
Nodding Our Heads Vigorously
Hey YA Extra Credit: YA Authors Debuting Adult Fiction
Movies Are Too Dark and Books Are Too Long
Hey YA Extra Credit: Books That Match My Summer Playlist
"Monsters Are The Ultimate Other" [Corrected file]
Hey YA Extra Credit: Exciting Fall 2024 YA Nonfiction Releases
Sus Watering Adventures
Hey YA Extra Credit: Celebrate Disability Pride Month With Righteous Fury and Changelings
"Nobody Reads Like a YA Reader"
Hey YA Extra Credit: 50 Years of THE CHOCOLATE WAR
Lies x3: June's Best YA Releases
Hey YA Extra Credit: Popular Manga Every Librarian Should Have on Their Shelves This Summer
History Repeats Itself; So Does Hope: YA SFF + A Conversation with Paula Yoo
Hey YA Extra Credit: 2024 YA Adaptation News So Far
When the Rent Is Due: May's Best New YA Releases
Hey YA Extra Credit: New Science Fiction and Fantasy by Asian American and Pacific Islander Authors
The Other Mom–The One Who Isn’t A Bird: Our Most Anticipated YA Summer Books
Hey YA Extra Credit: All Things YA Short Stories
YA Poetry and Novels-in-Verse
Hey YA Extra Credit: New YA Books Out This Week
Book Club: Discussion of Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross
Hey YA Extra Credit: New YA Books to Add to Your TBR
More Amenable to His Wooing: 25 Years of 10 Things I Hate About You
Hey YA Extra Credit: 25-Year YA Anniversaries
Our Favorite Queer YA Books
Hey YA Extra Credit: The Magic of Teen Writers
Hotties, Hauntings, and Heists: Black YA Books to Get Into
Hey YA Extra Credit: Queer YA Classics Retellings
When the Milkshake isn’t Milkshaking Like It Used To: Romantic YA across Genres
Hey YA Extra Credit: Standing on Business With New Historical Fiction
I Do What I Want — YA Anthologies
Hey YA Extra Credit: Madcap Mysteries
Nonfiction YA Books to Usher in Your New Era
Hey YA Extra Credit: Here Be Dragons
Justice for Bertha!: Anticipated Books for 2024 and Book Trend Predictions
Rerun: Most Anticipated YA Books for 2023
Our Favorite Books of 2023
Hey YA Extra Credit: Grumpy/Sunshine Pairings
YA Cozy Mysteries
Hey YA Extra Credit: Holiday Reads for December
All Pretty and Extra: The Best Books to Gift This Holiday Season
Hey YA Extra Credit: Indigenous Books for Native American Heritage Month and Beyond
The Ultimate Winter Survival Kit
Hey YA Extra Credit: The Magical Girl Genre
YA Romantasy
Hey YA: New Elizabethan YA
Book Gremlins and Spooky Graphic Novels
Hey YA Extra Credit: In Our Witchy Bag
Great YA Reads to Celebrate Latine Heritage Month!
Hey YA Extra Credit: A Note About Soft Censorship
Fix Your Broken Heart, Blah Blah Blah — Indie YA Publishers
Hey YA Extra Credit: Start Off Back-to-School Season With These Dark Academia Novels
The Best Book Recommendations: AI vs. Humans
Hey YA Extra Credit: September YA Adaptions for Your Watch List
Book Club: A Song of Salvation by Alechia Dow
Hey YA Extra Credit: A Witchy Fast and Furious and Other YA Fantasies to TBR
Kitten Camaraderie and a Backlist Bonanza
Hey YA Extra Credit: Graphic Novel Adaptations
Debut Novels from Some of Our Fave YA Authors
Hey YA Extra Credit: Tropic Like It's Hot — YA Books With Tropical Settings
Our Favorite Books of the Year So Far
Hey YA Extra Credit: Creepy Summertime Horror
Most Anticipated Books for the Second Half of 2023
Hey YA Extra Credit: Queer Graphic Novels
Yay, Pride!
Hey YA Extra Credit: Austen Retellings That Aren't Pride and Prejudice
YA Books to Celebrate Jewish Heritage Month and Beyond
Hey YA Extra Credit: YA Books with the Best Summery Vibes
YA Books by AAPI Authors
Hey YA Extra Credit: Books to Read for Mer-May
YA Fantasy Worlds We’d Live In vs Ones We Wouldn’t
Extra Credit: We Stan a Warrior Queen — Arab American YA
I Want That On My Headstone: YA Novels In Verse
Hey YA Extra Credit: New YA Novellas
Book Club: All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir
Hey YA Extra Credit: Graphic Nonfiction
Beware the Ides of March
Hey YA Extra Credit: What Real Teens Are Reading
Getting All Up in Our Little Women Feelings
Hey YA Extra Credit: People Be People-ing — New Releases by Black Authors to TBR
Love is for Losers: Diverse Romance That We Love
Hey YA Extra Credit: The ALA Youth Media Awards!
Queer Friendships in YA
Hey YA Extra Credit: Dastardly Dystopias
Fantasy Feels
Hey YA Extra Credit: New Books About Teen Parenthood
Most Anticipated YA Books for 2023
Extra Credit: Cozy YA Books to Snuggle Up With
The Best YA We Read in 2022!
Hey YA: Get These Short Graphic Novels on Your Radar
It's a Backlist Bonanza!
Can You Guess Which Shakespeare Plays These YA Novels were Inspired By?
Reading in a Tropey Wonderland
New Indigenous YA Books for Your TBR
We Love a Good Revenge Story
Extra Credit: Indigenous Graphic Novels
Ghouls Just Wanna Have Fun: YA Horror Books for Spooky SZN
Hey YA Extra Credit: October Reading at Its Finest
We Hope You’re Hungry: Delectable Foodie YA Fiction
Hey YA Extra Credit: Fun-Sized Stories
It’s Latine Month!
Take Action This Banned Books Week
It’s Pumpkin Spice O’Clock!
Hey YA Extra Credit: Am I the Villain?? And Other Important Questions in YA
Audiobook Narrators Who Always Understand the Assignment
Hey YA Extra Credit: Big Sequel Energy
TikTok Made Us Do It
Hey YA Extra Credit: Books About Artists
She’s Got a Whole Mortuary in Her Closet
Hey YA Extra Credit: Spoiler Alert, We Love THE SUMMER I TURNED PRETTY
Happy Disability Pride Month!
Extra Credit: Road Trippin'
From Catholic School to Demons, Here Are the Best Books of 2022 (So Far)
Reproductive Freedom is a YA Issue
Free Books For All!
It’s Giving Zendaya As Joan of Arc: Retellings for Hey YA Extra Credit
Let’s Talk About Asexuality in YA!
Happy Pride, YA Readers!
Excellent YA Graphic Memoirs
Extra Credit: Manga and Anime
Book Club Discussion: Queen of the Tiles
Prom Night Shenanigans: Hey YA Extra Credit
From TikTok Aesthetic to BookTok Craze: All Things Dark Academia!
Extra Credit: When You Lose Your Wig and Other Conundrums in Historical YA Books
The YA Reader in the Library With the Candle Stick: YA Mysteries
Add Some Poetry to Your TBR: Hey YA Extra Credit
Judging Books By Their Covers
Extra Credit: YA Books Like Spirited Away
I Know What You Did Last Adaptation: YA Adaptations to Look Forward to
Extra Credit: YA Duologies for Your TBR
Get Angry, Get Empowered: Talking Censorship and YA
The First Black Queer YA novel
She Might Have Pulled Off Minor Identity Theft
YA Books Inspired by THE WILD SWANS
You Get a Printz, and You Get a Printz!
No Justice, No Peace: YA Books with Activism
From Hardly Reading to Reading Harder
Hey YA Extra Credit: I Did Blind Date With a YA Book for Science (AKA This Podcast)
I Don’t Know About You, But We’re Feeling 2022: Most Anticipated 2022 YA Releases
Our Favorite YA Books of 2021
Hey YA Extra Credit: Magical, Musical YA Novels in Verse
Emotional Turbulence Incoming: YA Books About Found Family
107.5 Hey YA Extra Credit: Stunning Graphic Novels to TBR
Not To Be Shady Or Anything
106.5: Hey YA Extra Credit: See You, Space Cowboy
I Don’t Have Geometry In My Romance
105.5: Hey YA Extra Credit: Diverse Titles in Translation
The Incendiary Opinion Episode
104.5: Hey YA Extra Credit: Chatting BSC on Netflix with Amma Marfo
I'm a Cancer, How About You?
103.5: Hey YA Extra Credit: The Career Novel
The Haviest of the Haves
102.5: Hey YA Extra Credit: Diverse Romance
Opening Grub Hub and Doing Some Damage
101.5: Hey YA Extra Credit: Dipping Your Toes Into YA
A Hug in a Book
100.5: Extra Credit: Contemporary History: 3 Recent YA Releases
Foodie Tinder
99.5: Extra Credit: The First Real YA Book
I See a Cat, I Like It
98.5: Extra Credit: Unintentionally Dark and Murder-y
Heroines Don’t Always Have to Be Strong: YA Romance Chat with Jacqueline Firkins
97.5: Extra Credit: Do These Early YA Reads Hold Up?
Our Favorite Books of 2021, So Far
96.5: Extra Credit: We're Seeing Humans At Their Most Powerful
Malinda Lo and Jason Reynolds Share What Books Shaped Them
95.5: Extra Credit: You Don't Understand--"Boulder Gay" is Something I Made Up
Small Towns in the Pacific Northwest and Texas Are Not Similar, and Also, Idris Elba
94.5: Extra Credit: Community is Everything
We Murdered No One, and There Were No Bacchanals
93.5: Extra Credit: Were You An Extracurriculars Teen or After School Job Teen?
It Doesn't Add Up, and It's Not Because I'm Bad at Math
92.5: Extra Credit: The Things I'd Do For a New Melina Marchetta Book
Everything Is Feudal Europe
91.5: Extra Credit: Coming Soon to a Podcast and VOD Near You
I Found Myself in Walmart
90.5: Extra Credit: It's Too On the Nose
Abraham Lincoln Was Gay!
89.5: Extra Credit: Bookishly Honoring the Victims of the Atlanta Shootings
What Do We Do When We're Done With Nancy Drew?
88.5: Hey YA Extra Credit: In Honor of My Job Interviews...
Black Futures and More
87.5: Extra Credit: YA Horror and the Summer Scares
The Romance Elephant
86.5: Extra Credit: YA for Tweens and Younger Teens
Nightmare in a Crowd
85.5: Extra Credit: When I Hear "Steam Engine," I Think Of Jack and Kate Running Through the Boiler Room
Coming Soon: Smizecream
84.5: Extra Credit: Food and Wine, Chips and Cheese, Picture Books and YA
You Wear a Belt for That?
83.5: Extra Credit: Fat Girls in YA
The R Word and the X Word and YA in Translation
82.5: Extra Credit: Backlist Gems from YA Award Winners
The Holiday All-Request Recommendation Show
81.5: Extra Credit: Fascism! That's Cheery!
Oops/You're Welcome
80.5: Extra Credit: Becoming a Teacher and YA Reader with Tim Milner
Welcome To Hey YA
What Even Is An Oak Tree?
79.5: Extra Credit: Ghost Stories
Get In Loser. We're Going Podcasting.
78.5: Extra Credit: Book Clubbing SLOPPY FIRSTS with Kristina Forest
I Put A Spell On You
77.5: Extra Credit: Extolling The Virtues of Darius The Great Is Not OK
The Live Experience
Extra Credit: Retellings
Your Heart Still Has Feeling
Extra Credit: Cemetery Boys and Bad Choices with Aiden Thomas
The Real Deal On IP
Extra Credit: Latinx YA Extravaganza
Teens Who Raise Their Voices
Extra Credit: The Get Booked Handsell
Time Is Meaningless
72.5: Extra Credit: Must-Read Fantasy Series
The Baby-Sitters Club Adaptation is Everything
71.5: Extra Credit: Katie Cotugno and the Rules for Being a Girl
It's a Cookie Conspiracy
70.5: Extra Credit: Queer YA With Leah Johnson
This Podcast Is Anti-Racist
69.5: Extra Credit: Messy, Compelling Queer Characters with Lev Rosen
Don't Make a "Niccceeee" Joke
Extra Credit: The Life and (Medieval) Times of Jamie Pacton
On YA "Boy Books" and Driving In The Midwest
67.5: Extra Credit: (Almost) Entirely Historical Fiction with Jordyn Taylor
Cinnamon Roll Characters
66.5: Extra Credit Humor Reads
I'm The One Pushing This Agenda
65.5: Extra Credit: THE MOTH DIARIES with Samantha Mabry
The Catnip Episode
64.5: Always Bring A Cat With Claribel Ortega
Delicious Novels and Dad Music
63.5: Extra Credit Backlist Picks with Shveta Thakrar!
Live: Podcasting While Eating Chocolate Cake
62.5: Backlist for Black History Month
Catching Feels for YA Dads
61.5: Loving On Jenny Han's SHUG
Burnt Toast
60.5: Extra Credit: I Hope You Get This Backlist with Farah Naz Rishi
One Chonky Beautiful Book
59.5: Extra Credit: The Walls Around Us And Phil Stamper
The Count of Monte Crisco
Wearing Real People Clothes
Coming At You In Claymation
Remember To Unclick Lumbersexual
Gentle Trolling
Being Petty Is An Important Reason To Read
Our Comics and YA Crossover Wishlists
Class Projects About Chlamydia
Welcome To College: Death Comes For Us All
Extra Credit: It's Ok If You Don't Love Me by Norma Klein
Complicated Trips To Other Planets
Exta Credit: MOM, THE WOLFMAN, AND ME by Norma Klein
Every 90s Teen Movie Ever
48.5 NO MORE SATURDAY NIGHTS by Norma Klein
I Don't Want To Go To Murder Island, Ok?
#47.5: BREAKING UP by Norma Klein
I Cried Waiting For My Pizza Today
#46.5: Love Is One Of The Choices by Norma Klein
#46: Suzanne Collins OWNS The Mountain
#45.5: Family Secrets by Norma Klein
45: I'm Not Stephen King's Publicist
Extra Credit: Domestic Arrangements by Norma Klein
#44: I'm Not The Teen Who Makes It To The Epilogue
#43: Precious Plant Nurturing Boys
#42: A Penchant For Beheading Shoplifters
#41: Everyone Dies At The Dance
#40: The Corn Uprising
#39: Gritty, The Gritty YA Novel
#38: Death Metal Songs You Can Slow Dance To
#36: The Backstreet Boys Have A New Album, Guys
#35: Mystery, Mystery, Murder, Murder
#34: Swoony Robots
#33: Dolly Parton, Patron Saint of YA
#32: Olds Like Us
#31: Pterodactly Boyfriend, Again
#29: Perfect For Fans of Magic Mike
#28: Can We Even Say That Word?
#27: Oh, and Zombies
#26: What Do You Get Your Podcast Partner On The First Anniversary?
#25: Are You Or Someone You Know Suffering From Romance?
Episode 23: Dark Playtime Stuff
#22: Hatchet Harder
#21: Teens and Tiny Houses
#20: Fathers You've Seen In 80s Movies
#19: You’re in Space! Look At Some Stars!
#18: A Low Grumbling Sound and Enough With Hatchet
Bonus: Malinda Lo Recommends
#17: The YA Reading Sandwich
#16: Would You Say You Wolfed It Down?
#15: Hot Pterodactyls Playing Baseball
#14: Does Time Have Meaning?
#13: Sliding Into the YA Category's DMs
Ep. #12: If Judy Blume's Characters Had Tumblr
Ep. #11: Like The Fast & The Furious: FAMILY!
Ep #10: YOWZA, it’s ADORBZ
Ep. #9: Sorry, But You're Old
Ep. #8: Say “Whoa” Like Keanu Reeves
Ep. #7: The Gift That Keeps On Giving
Ep. #6: Speaking of Shipwrecks...
Ep #5: Sad Man Books
Ep. #4: Oh, The Youths!
Ep. #3: Are The Aliens Rich?
Ep. #2: Whatever Happened To Tookie De La Creme?
Episode #1: Jeans Are Self-Cleaning
Episode 0: I Like It When Books Do Weird Things