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Eva passed away just 15 days after we accepted Little, Brown’s offer for the finished manuscript. She was on an education trip at Auschwitz when this happened. She wanted this book to reach every child out there.
I can't think of any book that really captures what it's like to deal with that anger inside of you and the fallout from it like this one does.
A first look at the cover of THE ART OF INSANITY, an October 2022 YA about a girl newly diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
In THE NATURAL GENIUS OF ANTS, Harvard Corson has a huge task in front of him and only a short summer to accomplish it—trying to get his doctor father to forgive himself for a very big mistake that cost a baby her life. Not only that, but Harvard also needs to keep an ant colony alive!
SLJ and NCTE collaborated to create 18 booklists of titles to replace, or use as a companion to, canon "classics."
I owe a lot of my knowledge and fascination with history to the passion with which Chinese culture honors its past and the skills of storytellers in passing this heritage to new generations, and I hope to bring some of this passion to a young Western audience.
When I was in middle school, the word “nerd” was thrown around a lot, a word that then meant someone who was too much, who loved something too deeply. This passion was a delicate flame within me when I was 14, a little older than Elissa, the protagonist of my novel, We Are the Song.
When I finally found my way to writing a novel about growing up as an immigrant with hip dysplasia, it was this wholeness—not parts of me segmented into boxes—that guided me. I wrote Breathe and Count Back from Ten because the only way I can imagine creating books in a world that draws boundaries around my identity is to write myself beyond them.
Teen librarian Cindy Shutts shares the basic theme and organization of her library's summer reading challenge for this year
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