Daniel Nayeri. Candlewick, $19.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-7636-5526-6
This collection of novellas from Nayeri (Another Pan), written entirely on an iPhone, is a mixed bag; each of the four stories represent a different genre and mood, with little to link them. The strongest is the thought-provoking “Wish Police,”...
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Daniel Nayeri. Levine Querido, $17.99 (368p) ISBN 978-1-64614-000-8
Marked by a distinctive voice—a straightforward mix of confiding, slyly humorous, and unsentimentally sorrowful—Nayeri’s (Straw House, Wood House, Brick House, Blow) impressive autobiographical novel is narrated by 12-year-old Khosrou, known as...
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Daniel Nayeri, Author, Dina Nayeri, Author . Candlewick $16.99 (387p) ISBN 978-0-7636-3707-1
In this sibling duo's debut, an unusual urban fantasy, five 10-year-olds—overachieving Victoria, homeless writer Christian, twins Bicé and Belle, and fame-hungry poet Valentin—disappear from their homes and are adopted by the
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Daniel Nayeri. Levine Querido, $18.99 (192p) ISBN 978-1-64614-566-9
Nayeri (The Bizarre Bazaar) considers the effects of WWII on two Iranian children in a heart-piercing historical novel. Following the death of Babak’s educator father from British cannon fire in 1941 Iran, the 13-year-old takes guardianship of his...
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Daniel Nayeri, illus. by Daniel Miyares. Levine Querido, $21.99 (224p) ISBN 978-1-64614-303-0
Orphaned novice monk Omar is saved from stoning at the hands of his order at the start of this cleverly constructed adventure centering two Sogdian protagonists. For the dubious equivalent of six bolts of silk, the monks trade the approximately 12-ye
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Daniel Nayeri, illus. by Matt Rockefeller. HarperAlley, $19.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-327716-8
Inside an idyllic hilltop cottage, beneath a portrait of two parents and a young child, a bearded adult and the child, a boy, sit alone and bereft: “She
was gone.” A page later, as the remaining caretaker struggles in the kitchen, the
boy bolts in
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Daniel Nayeri, illus. by Liz Enright. Little, Brown Ink, $24.99 hardcover (144p) ISBN 978-0-7595-5642-3; $12.99 paper ISBN 978-0-7595-5643-0
In this double graphic novel debut, a fantastical series opener, Newbery Medalist Nayeri spins tales of passing strange originating from a magical marketplace boasting enchanted wares. Every item bought and sold at the Bizarre Bazaar—run by blond,...
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