Recent News

• KING AND THE DRAGONFLIES by Kacen Callender has won for the medal for 2020 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature.
• LAND OF THE CRANES by Aida Salazar receives starred reviews from Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, and School Library Journal.
• PLAYING POSSUM by Jennifer Black Reinhardt, IF YOU COME TO EARTH by Sophie Blackall, TOWER OF NERO by Rick Riordan, and KING AND THE DRAGONFLIES by Kacen Callender are B&N’s Best Books of 2020!
• SHE DRIVES ME CRAZY by Kelly Quindlen receives a starred review from Booklist.
• FURIA by Yamile Saied Méndez is an Indie Bestseller!
• FURIA by Yamile Saied Méndez is a Reese Witherspoon YA Book Club Pick for September 2020.
• FIVE MIDNIGHTS by Ann Davila Cardinal wins an International Latino Book Award 2020 in the category of Best YA Fantasy & Adventure.
• BLAZEWRATH GAMES by Amparo Ortiz receives a starred review from Booklist.
• The news is out! Amazon Studios is adapting Kacen Callender’s FELIX EVER AFTER to TV!
• The following books made NPR’s 100 Favorite Books for Young Readers List: BROWN BABY LULLABY by Tameka Fryer Brown and AG Ford, HELLO LIGHTHOUSE by Sophie Blackall, THE JUMBIES by Tracey Baptiste, and the IVY & BEAN series by Annie Barrows and Sophie Blackall.
• IF YOU COME TO EARTH by Sophie Blackall receives starred reviews from Booklist and Publishers Weekly.
• FURIA by Yamile Saied Méndez receives starred reviews from Kirkus and Publishers Weekly.
• DISPLACEMENT by Kiku Hughes receives a starred review from Kirkus.
• FREEDOM BIRD, written by Jerdine Nolen and illustrated by James E. Ransome, wins a 2020 Parents’ Choice Award silver medal.

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