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...

Amy and Roger’s Epic Detour | September 2, 2015

After Amy’s dad dies in a car accident, her mom decides that their family needs a fresh start. She moves to Connecticut a month before Amy finishes her junior year, leaving Amy alone in their house in California. Since the …

Mitford at the Fashion Zoo | August 26, 2015

The only place Mitford has ever wanted to work is Cover magazine. After countless attempts, Mitford finally has the chance to work for Panda Summers, the most fabulous of animal fashion editors. Fashion Zoo Week is the craziest time of …

More Happy Than Not | August 19, 2015

The best thing going for Aaron Soto is his loving girlfriend. He would do well to forget that his father committed suicide in the only bathroom of his family’s tiny one-bedroom apartment in the Bronx. That his mother works all …

El Deafo | August 12, 2015

El Deafo is a graphic memoir by Cece Bell, in which she shares her experience of growing up with hearing loss. Cece is only four years old when she loses her hearing after a case of meningitis. When she starts …

The Snowy Day | August 5, 2015

Though the weather forecast holds no cooler temperatures in sight, and your air conditioning unit seems to offer the only relief from the humidity, another solution is ready and waiting for you: Ezra Jack Keats’ The Snowy Day. Peter wakes …

Chrysanthemum | July 28, 2015

A story of acceptance, love, and the universal feeling of other-ness, Kevin Henkes’s Chrysanthemum is a story for every child. Our titular heroine loves her one-of-a-kind name. That is, until her classmates point out its length and eccentricity. Suddenly, the …

The Numberlys | July 22, 2015

“Once upon a time there was no alphabet. Only numbers.” So begins The Numberlys, an imaginative picture book about how the alphabet came to be. Five friends decide their orderly existence needs something different, something MORE, than the ten numbers. …

Echo | July 15, 2015

Fables, history, and magical realism collide in this middle-grade novel following three characters from different times and locations, and the harmonica which binds them together. Following a Grimm-style fairytale, the story begins with Friedrich and his father, who are attempting …

Shadow and Bone | July 8, 2015

Leigh Bardugo weaves a complicated fantastical realm in this first book of the Grisha Trilogy. We follow Alina, an orphan who serves as an apprentice to a cartographer, on a ship that is bound for the Shadow Fold—a realm of …

Robo-Sauce | July 1, 2015

The hilarious one-two punch of a team behind the New York Times bestselling Dragons Love Tacos will return this fall with their seventh collaboration, Robo-Sauce. I was fortunate enough to get my squishy human hands on an advance copy, and …