YA Wednesday: Crashed, Crushed, and Tattooed

By Heidi

Out this week: Crashed, book 2 in Robin Wasserman's Skinned Trilogy, about a girl who dies in a car crash and is reborn as a machine. I haven't read the books, but I'm liking this trailer:

And for readers looking for some back-to-school teen romance & realism, these two new releases look intriguing:

Julie Anne Peters's Rage: A Love Story (which I've started reading"¦ the voice drew me in), and Food, Girls, and Other Things I Can't Have by Allen Zadoff.

Quick links...

A.S. King posts the first
The Dust of 100 Dogs-inspired tatto

(What?! You haven't read the book? Go read it now.)

ALAN lists September Picks.

Little Willow shares the first vlog from readergirlz writer-in-residence, Beth Kephart (Nothing but Ghosts).

YA and children's author Zeta Elliott (A Wish After Midnight) posts "something like an open letter to the publishing industry": The best way to get children of color to read? Publish more writers of color. (Via Read Roger, who admires the essay, but is skeptical of its conclusion.)

Nathan Bransford, Literary Agent asks: Should children's books be content-rated like movies and video games?

Egmont is giving away the original Civil War-era newspapers that inspired Riot, Walter Dean Myers' upcoming YA book/screenplay about the 1863 New York riots. (School Library Journal)

Happy reading.--Heidi