Carmela Iaria has been appointed to the newly-created position of executive director of educational and library marketing at Penguin Young Readers Group. She was previously v-p of marketing for the book clubs division at Scholastic.

At Scholastic, Nancy Mercado has been appointed editorial director at Scholastic Press, effective October 14. She was previously executive editor at Roaring Brook Press. Alexis Lunsford has been named national accounts manager, B&N/Nook at Scholastic Trade. She was most recently account manager for B&N at Penguin Young Readers Group. April Chorba has been promoted to product director, art department at Klutz. Eva Steele-Saccio has been promoted to product director, editorial at Klutz.