That Cover Goes B-A-N-A-N-A-S: YA Books Out in March to TBR

Kelly and Erica share their picks for the best YA books coming out in March and get into a little adaptation news and horror.
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Books Discussed
They Bloom at Night by Trang Thanh Tran
Movie mentioned: Beasts of the Southern Wild
A Catalog of Burnt Objects by Shana Youngdahl
Lovely Dark and Deep by Elisa A. Bonnin
Red Car to Hollywood by Jennie Liu
Kill Her Twice by Stacey Lee
The Scorpion and the Night Blossom by Amélie Wen Zhao
Say a Little Prayer by Jenna Voris
Church Camp: Bad Skits, Cry Night, and How White Evangelicalism Betrayed a Generation by Cara Meredith
The House No One Sees by Adina King
Messy Roots: A Graphic Novel of a Wuhanese American by Laura Gao
Kirby’s Lessons for Falling (In Love) by Laura Gao
Heartstopper by Alice Oseman
Oathbound (The Legendborn Cycle) by Tracy Deonn
Sunrise on the Reaping (A Hunger Games Novel) by Suzanne Collins
Banned Together: Our Fight for Readers’ Rights edited by Ashley Hope Pérez, illustrated by Debbie Fong
Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity by C. Riley Snorton
Wake the Wild Creatures by Nova Ren Suma
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