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  • Scholastic Acquires Young Adult Series by Bestselling Author Ally Carter

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE New York, NY – Scholastic, the global children’s publishing, education and media company, has acquired North American rights to Embassy Row, a three-book young adult series by New York Times bestselling …

  • The Jim Henson Company Partners With Penguin Young Readers Group To Launch “The Dark Crystal” Author Quest

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Hollywood, CA – The Jim Henson Company and Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Young Readers Group, are reaching out to fans and fantasy writers to enter The …

  • Susann Cokal Writes Her Debut YA Novel

    The story follows a young seamstress and a royal nursemaid in the Scandinavian city of Skyggehavn. Candlewick Pres will release the book on October 8, 2013. more at Goodreads▸▸

  • Tony DiTerlizzi Finishes a First Draft for ‘The Battle for WondLa’

    To design the book cover, DiTerlizzi reacquaints himself with the protagonist Eva Nine and draws inspiration from Les Misérables. “Émile Bayard‘s iconic image of Cosette sweeping from Victor Hugo’s 1862 …

  • Make a Donation to Every Child a Reader Through Better World Books

    Better World Books is “not a traditional company with an add-on “cause” component. Social and environmental responsibility is at the core of our business. You could say it’s in our …

  • New Novel by Shannon Hale Entitled ‘Dangerous’

    “Maisie Danger Brown just wanted to get away from home for a bit, see something new. She never intended to fall in love. And she never imagined stumbling into a …

  • Maile Meloy & Ian Schoenherr Collaborate on ‘The Apprentices’

    Artist Ian Schoenherr created the jacket and thirty eight black and white illustrations for this book. Penguin Young Readers Group released it on June 04, 2013.   more at Maile …

  • YALSA Announces 2013 Teens’ Top Ten Nominations

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The nominees for the annual Teens’ Top Ten have been announced today in honor of Celebrate Teen Literature Day by the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA). …

  • Summer Reading Book Offers Observations on Summer Slide

    “One program in rural Florida puts books into the hands of children from low-income families with weekly bookmobile visits and has evolved to include more intensive one-on-one tutoring, while a …

  • James Patterson to Launch a New Middle Grade Series

    In an interview with USA Today, Patterson revealed that writing middle grade books is his “passion, much more than the adult books now…It’s an interesting direction now, books that are …

  • Latinas for Latino Literature Launches the Latino Children’s Summer Reading Program

    Adults are challenged to encourage the children in their life (offspring, nieces, nephews, etc.) to read a minimum of eight books between June 1st and August 12th. Those who register …

  • Too Much Focus on Gender for YA Book Covers?

    “The reason is, of course, that books exist in a society where femininity is still considered to be a second-class characteristic, and masculinity defined most strongly as an absence of …

  • This Week on Girls Scouts’ The Studio: Laura Golden

    “The most important thing you may do in your lifetime is to discover your voice. Not your speaking voice, but your voice as a human being. What matters to you? …

  • Victoria Law Endorses Two Anthologies in the “Girls of Color in Dystopia” Blog Series

    Within the After anthology, Law offers particularly high praise for Malinda Lo’s contribution “Good Girl.” For Law, it doesn’t “matter how terrible and oppressive these futuristic fiction worlds are, readers …

  • Gayle Forman Has Penned Just One Year

    The first book followed the story of protagonist Allyson “LuLu” Healey. With this new work, readers will get inside the mind of LuLu’s love interest Willem because the story will …

  • Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing to Partner with Shindig for “Hot YA Summer Chat Series”

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE New York, NY, June 11, 2013– Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing has partnered with Shindig to offer YA readers and fans an exciting new program to regularly …

  • Paramount Pictures Picks Up the Film Rights for ‘The Testing’

    “In the rebuilding of the United States after natural disasters and biological war, the best and brightest high school graduates are put through a series of tests, both physical and …

  • The World’s A Stage, Or Is It?

    Originally posted on the Diversity in YA blog by Sarah Rees Brennan.

    The Demon’s Lexicon series is all about roles.

    I started the first book, The Demon’s Lexicon, thinking about the role of Mr. Tall, Dark, Handsome and Morally Really Freaking Dodgy, and how we almost never get that guy’s point of view, and what he’d be like from the inside. Almost unforgivably awful, maybe, because you know how bad he is from the start, and you aren’t distracted by his good looks and dashing ways. What’s it like to look into the abyss? And what makes an abyss, anyway?

    That was the role that started the ball, ahem, rolling. (Everybody groans and tosses rotten fruit.) From there I thought about roles, and the different ways I could play with them, like genderswitching: what if the hero of an epic fantasy — you know the type, rash and brave and honest and initially clueless — was a girl, what if the Mother Who Would Give Up/Do Anything For Her Kid was a boy?

    Some of my ideas were just about going beyond a role, because some roles are true as far as they go, but people are so complex they never go far enough. Such as the gay guy who presents as weaker than other guys — what if he was physically weaker and smaller, and also quite deliberately presenting himself in a certain way, and also a huge magical badass?
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  • Ringo Starr to Publish Children’s Picture Book with Simon & Schuster

    LONDON and NEW YORK—Simon and Schuster Children’s Books today announced a worldwide publication agreement with Ringo Starr for a picture book edition of his famous Beatles hit, Octopus’s Garden, 45 …

  • The Weinstein Company Announces ‘Vampire Academy’ Sweepstakes

    New York, NY (June 11, 2013) – The Weinstein Company (TWC) announced today their special VAMPIRE ACADEMY contest, which will give one lucky fan an exclusive, once in a lifetime trip …

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