Remixing the Classics, Nostalgic YA Horror, and More YA Book Talk

It’s a quiet roundup of young adult book news during what is likely a quiet week around the United States and Canada. With Labor Day this weekend, things are transitioning. We’ll move from a quieter summer season in the world of books to a busy, active fall season. Find here your monthly roundup of all things young adult book news. There’s a little of everything here, including updates on forthcoming adaptations, genre release roundups, and more. Grab your favorite hot or iced beverage and catch up on all of the haps. Over the next several months, you may see that this kind of news roundup transitions a bit. I don’t want to stop sharing them–there are so few places doing YA book news roundups anymore, and they’re especially useful for folks who like keeping tabs on news about adaptations or new books from beloved authors–but these news roundups may be integrated elsewhere in regular YA book talk. Adaptation News Season two of Finding Her Edge is currently being filmed. Gayle Forman’s Just One Day was optioned by Amazon quite a while ago, but it sounds like the option expired. It’s been picked up now by Hulu, though the team who was working on it will continue working on it. There’s...