I am overjoyed to share this news! WHAT I CARRY is included on the 2021 American Library Association’s YALSA Top Ten YA Novel list! What an honor to share space with some truly remarkable books and authors. I am so grateful. Thank you endlessly ALA and the Young Adult Services Library Association. I love libraries and librarians more than anything, and readers and bloggers and teacher s and independent bookshops and book sellers. . .you are literary life! Love to you all, and here’s to a new year filled with books and stories to get us through, as always. Here’s the full list:

http://www.yalsa.ala.org/thehub/tag/bfya2021/