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...

Skink — No Surrender | July 2, 2014

Carl Hiaasen was on stage during this year’s BEA Children’s Author Breakfast to discuss Florida, road kill recipes, and his forthcoming foray into children’s literature, Skink — No Surrender. This mystery thriller centers on small-town-Florida teen Richard as he tracks …

House of Ivy & Sorrow | June 25, 2014

Josephine Hemlock has been living in two worlds. To most everyone in Willow’s End, she’s just another teenage girl who may or may not be dating the school’s hottest boy. But Jo is also a witch, living with her grandmother …

Love in the Time of Global Warning | June 18, 2014

Penelope lost everything in the Earth Shaker, and post-apocolyptic Los Angeles is now populated by giants, sirens, and a handful of human survivors. With the distant hope that her family is still alive, Pen roams her decimated city, picking up …

The Sky is Everywhere | June 11, 2014

Sixteen years ago, Lennie Walker’s mother dropped her and her older sister, Bailey, at their grandmother’s house and never came back. Four weeks ago, Bailey collapsed from an arrhythmia and never got up. Today, Lennie is back at school, surrounded …

Hug Machine | June 4, 2014

Not one to balk at the idea of waiting in line to meet an author or illustrator, I was lucky enough to pick up an early copy of Hug Machine at last week’s Book Expo America. (Just look at that …

Roomies | May 28, 2014

Despite summer days at the beach, Elizabeth “EB” Owens can’t wait to leave New Jersey and start her freshman year across the country at UC Berkley. Things are not working out with her boyfriend, and she wants to escape from …

If I Stay | May 21, 2014

In honor of the movie trailer release, I decided to read Gayle Forman’s YA novel, If I Stay. After watching the movie trailer, I found myself tearing up in my cubicle and I knew I had to give the book …

Doug Unplugged | May 14, 2014

Doug is an adorable, wide-eyed, brightly colored robot. His parents want him to be “the smartest robot ever,” so each morning they plug him in and start the information download. After a morning spent learning facts about what cities are …

Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote: A Migrant’s Tale | May 7, 2014

Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote is an ambitious story about a young rabbit who partners with a coyote to find his father who crossed over the border several years earlier in search of work. Within its short pages, Pancho Rabbit …

This One Summer | April 30, 2014

This One Summer is the second collaboration between cousins Jillian and Mariko Tamaki. Printed entirely in blue, this atmospheric graphic novel captures that moment when you want to leave adolescence behind, but still can’t quite navigate the adult world. Rose …