New releases and trends, Spring 2016

1. WHAT’S NEW IN
LITERATURE FOR YOUNG
ADULTS?
Robin L. Gibson
Youth Librarian
Westerville Public Library
rgibson@westervillelibrary.org
March 10, 2016

2. Favorite authors
(most anticipated)

3. REALISTIC/CONTEMPORARY
FICTION
Current events/issues – school
shootings, police incidents .. .

4. THE HUNGER GAMES EFFECT

5. Paranormal/Thrille
r

6. Fairy Tales & Fantastic
Fiction

7. SCI FI & STEAMPUNK
• •
Traditional steampunk, is the future as the Victorians imagined it.
The writings of H.G. Wells and Jules Verne are good examples. The
second, industrial steampunk, envisions a far future world that
harkens back to Victorian culture, for example a bustle dress made
of Kevlar. There are also other temporal options like clockpunk (c.
1500s) and dieselpunk (WWII). - Gail Carriger

8. HISTORICAL FICTION

9. GENRE MIXING/BLENDING
IN NEW WAYS & FORMS

10. UNRELIABLE
NARRATORS

11. NOT THE NF YOU
REMEMBER!
• Illustrations, photographs (beautiful!)
• Engaging narrative – compelling,
mysterious, well-crafted, even poetic at
times
• Don’t dismiss “picture book” style non-
fiction – often explains high level
concepts in an understandable way, a
great intoduction to a subject – often
more complex than you might think!

12. HIDDEN HISTORY
Spies, espionage, untold stories, unusual
perspectives . . .

13. WORLD WAR
II
Fiction
Fiction & Nonfiction

14. More
Outstanding NF

15. STRANGE
INTERSECTIONS
Fanfiction
becomes
real . . .
Wattpad
sensation,
written when
author was 15.

16. COMPELLING
NONFICTION
IN GRAPHIC NOVEL FORMAT

17. Why?
CCBC Statistics
The number of books with significant African or
African American content increased by almost
50%, from 180 in 2014 to 261 in 2015. The
number of books by Black authors and/or
illustrators made a more modest climb, from 84
in 2014 to 100 in 2015. Numbers of books with
First/Native Nations content or authors or
illustrators, books with Asian/Pacific or
Asian/Pacific American content, and books by
Latino authors and illustrators stayed virtually
static, while the count for Asian/Pacific heritage
authors increased from 129 in 2014 to 173 in
2015, and books with Latino content rose from
66 to 82 during the same time.
Publishing Statistics
Lee & Low Survey

18. DIVERSITY
“When we actually got into the classroom, the books were just mainly
about white boys and dogs,“ Marley Dias, 11.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/1000blackgirlbooks-social-media-book-
drive-movement-black-characters/

19. BEYOND RACE
Sexuality Gender

21. WHERE IS HOME?

22. It’s not just print books!
ebooks
• Books on CD
• Playaway (audiobooks on mp3 player)
• Playaway View (mini video player)
• Playaway Bookpacks (Playaway + Print Book)
• DVD movies, BluRay, music CDs
• Magazines for kids & teens (Otaku USA, MAD)
• Magazines for Parents & Teachers (School Library
Journal, VOYA, Horn Book - reviews popularity vs.
quality)
At the Library . . . .

23. WPL’s Educator page

24. Try our mobile app (or mobile web page - but the app lets
you check books out!)
Reviews. Find them in Novelist, print magazines such as
School Library Journal & Horn Book, Amazon, blogs
Shelves. New & advanced books at the library, bookstore
The Hub teen lit blog from the Young Adult Library Services
Association. NetGalley (ebook ARCs)
Books about books (0.11-0.28 at the library)
Helpful Resources

25. Keeping Up: Publisher Media
(Pinterest example)