2019-20 #ProjectLITBookClub
ProjectLIT Book Club has been announcing new titles for the 2019-20 school year for the past few weeks! And today, the list is complete with 40 new middle grade and young adult titles to share with tweens and teens. I’m currently using this list as a guide for my Bookémon Badgeathon and so far I’m loving all the books!
Middle Grade Titles
- A Good Kind of Trouble by Lisa Moore Ramée
- Blended by Sharon M. Draper
- It’s Trevor Noah: Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Adapted for Young Readers) by Trevor Noah
- Dactyl Hill Squad by Daniel José Older
- El Deafo by Cece Bell
- For Black Girls Like Me by Mariama J. Lockington
- Front Desk by Kelly Yang
- Hurricane Child by Kheryn Callender
- Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World by Ashley Herring Blake
- Look Both Ways by Jason Reynolds
- Lu by Jason Reynolds
- Merci Suárez Changes Gears by Meg Medina
- New Kid by Jerry Craft
- Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga
- The Benefits of Being an Octopus by Ann Braden
- The Bridge Home by Padma Venkatraman
- The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora by Pablo Cartaya
- The Last Last-Day-of-Summer by Lamar Giles
- The Skin I’m In by Sharon G. Flake
- They Call Me Güero: A Border Kid’s Poems by David Bowles
Young Adult Titles
- Anger Is a Gift by Mark Oshiro
- Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
- A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Tahereh Mafi
- Barely Missing Everything by Matt Mendez
- Here to Stay by Sara Farizan
- Hey, Kiddo by Jarrett J. Krosoczka
- Internment by Samira Ahmed
- Jackpot by Nic Stone
- Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
- Monday’s Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson
- Monster by Walter Dean Myers
- Nyxia by Scott Reintgen
- The Opposite of Always by Justin A. Reynolds
- Scythe by Neal Shusterman
- Shout by Laurie Halse Anderson
- The Astonishing Color of After by Emily X.R. Pan
- The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang
- They Both Die At the End by Adam Silvera
- With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo
If you’re interested in learning more about ProjectLIT Community, check out the ProjectLIT Community Facebook page and my post from last year.
