Who's Reading What on Wednesdays?

Each week, Early Career Committee members are asked to recommend a book published by a house other than their own. Here are their (anonymous) picks...

Sparky! | March 11, 2015

When her mother tells her she can only have a pet so long as it doesn’t need to be walked or bathed or fed, a young girl finds the perfect loophole in a pet sloth, Sparky. With simple, smart writing …

Winterspell | February 25, 2015

As Marissa Meyer states on the jacket, this is not your grandmother’s The Nutcracker. Winterspell opens in snowy New York City, 1899. Clara, the mayor’s daughter, feels trapped as her father has all but relinquished his title to the powerful …

I’ll Give You the Sun | February 18, 2015

Art. Teenagers. Tragedy. Beaches. Ghosts. Drama. Family. All this in just the first 40 pages. Jandy Nelson’s I’ll Give You the Sun is well-deserving of its 2015 Michael L. Printz Award, and draws you in on the very first page. …

Everything Leads to You | February 11, 2015

Emi Price loves everything about film. Like many Hollywood kids, she’s grown up obsessed with the industry. She’s even scored the internship of a lifetime, working as a set designer on a movie before she’s even graduated from high school. …

All The Bright Places | February 4, 2015

This novel starts with a “boy-meets-girl” scene, but not the way you’d expect. Finch and Violet meet when they find themselves standing on the ledge of their school’s bell tower, both of them dealing with their own internal hardship. Violet …

Firebug | January 28, 2015

Ava just wants to be a normal teenager who goes to school and hangs out with her boyfriend. The only thing standing in her way is the Coterie, a magical mafia run by a ruthless boss named Venus. Ava is …

Sparkers | January 21, 2015

Marah is a sparker, a derogatory term given to the oppressed underclass by the magical kasiri. So while she may be an ambitious, bright student, her options under the kasiri ruling class are limited. That’s the way the city of …

The Shadow Hero | January 14, 2015

Coming of age in the 1940s, Hank Chu is a first-generation Chinese American teen who is perfectly content following in the footsteps of his father, a seemingly timid grocery store owner. That is until the day his mother has a …

Love Monster | January 7, 2015

Love Monster lives in Cuteseville where everyone is—you guessed it—cute and fluffy. He, however, is bright red, googly-eyed, a little hairy, and very toothy. Needless to say, Love Monster doesn’t exactly fit in. But instead of feeling sorry for himself, …

Paper Towns | December 10, 2014

A little boy and his young neighbor discover a suicide. Not exactly the way most great romances begin, but I was quickly swept up in Quentin and Margo’s unexpected (and sometimes scary) story. Now they’re both in high school, and …