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Fall 2022 Flying Starts: C.C. Harrington
Debut author C.C. Harrington has felt a strong draw toward animal stories since her childhood in the English countryside. Set in 1963, her middle grade novel 'Wildoak' follows two viewpoints: those of 11-year-old Maggie Stevens and snow leopard cub Rumpus.
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Fall 2022 Flying Starts: Liza Ferneyhough
“It was a drawing I did of my grandmother’s teacup,” author-illustrator Liza Ferneyhough says, recalling the image that set her on the creative path of transforming a mental catalog of multicultural family memories into her debut picture book, 'Nana, Nenek & Nina'.
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Fall 2022 Flying Starts: Skyler Schrempp
Debut author Skyler Schrempp's experience in theater helped her to home in on the voice of her historical middle grade novel, 'Three Strike Summer', about a girl whose family loses their Dust Bowl farm during the Great Depression.
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Fall 2022 Flying Starts: Zoulfa Katouh
Science and stories have always been twin threads running through Zoulfa Katouh’s life. Now a pharmacist working on cancer research and the debut author of the acclaimed novel 'As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow,' set amid the Syrian revolution, Katouh has found a way to keep both sides of her heart engaged.
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Fall 2022 Flying Starts
We spotlight the authors of six of the season’s most promising children’s and YA debuts.
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Jason Reynolds Closes Out Term as National Ambassador
On December 13, students and publishing professionals gathered at the Library of Congress to commemorate the end of Jason Reynolds's three-year run as the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature.
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Four Questions for LaLa Thomas
LaLa Thomas's debut YA novel '16 & Pregnant,' inspired by the MTV reality show of the same name, highlights one of the issues she saw as a middle school and high school educator in Nevada for 10 years: teenage pregnancy.
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Four Questions for Leonard S. Marcus
We spoke with children's literature historian Leonard S. Marcus about his new middle grade book, 'Mr. Lincoln Sits for His Portrait,' and his lifelong fascination with America's 16th president.
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Q & A with James Klise
As a teacher librarian at CICS Northtown Academy in Chicago, and an Edgar and Stonewall Honor Award-winning YA author, Klise is passionate about getting the right books into the right hands at the right time.
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On Tour with Kiera Cass
Kiera Cass, author of the bestselling The Selection series, went on tour to promote her new YA novel, 'A Thousand Heartbeats,' to readers in Texas and Missouri last week.
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In Conversation: Isabel Wilkerson and Beverly Horowitz
We asked Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Isabel Wilkerson and her editor Beverly Horowitz to discuss the process of adapting Wilkerson's adult bestseller 'Caste' for young readers, and how high school is a microcosm of social hierarchies.
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Holt Acquires Sought-After Debut YA Horror Duology
Last month, Henry Holt editor Jess Harold won a seven-house auction for YA author Jamison Shea's debut novel 'I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me.'
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Sabaa Tahir Wins 2022 National Book Award for Young People's Literature
Sabaa Tahir received this year's Young People's Literature prize for her YA novel 'All My Rage'; during her tearful acceptance speech, Tahir noted, "I am the first Muslim and Pakistani American woman to win this award.”
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Lauren Tarshis Leads a Virtual 'I Survived' Field Trip
On November 10, an estimated 88,000 students from 30 countries participated in a "virtual field trip" based on Lauren Tarshis's latest I Survived historical adventure.
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Q & A with Valerie Bolling
We spoke with Valerie Bolling about how she uses her skills and intuition in her roles as instructional coach and author, and why she hopes her readers will put her books down after reading them and go outside.
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Entrepreneurial Author Forges Partnerships That Give Back
Lowey Bundy Sichol, the creator of the From an Idea… series and Idea Makers: 15 Fearless Female Entrepreneurs, recently established a charitable giving program that connects local companies with schools in underserved districts, providing students with free books and author visits.
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Q & A with Laura Weymouth
In 'A Consuming Fire,' Laura Weymouth's fourth YA historical fantasy, a young woman sets forth from her isolated village as the latest in a long line of sacrifices to the god of the mountain who rules over an alternate version of Britain.
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On Tour with Maggie Stiefvater
Maggie Stiefvater set out on a six-city tour last month in celebration of the release of 'Greywaren,' the third and final installment of The Dreamer Trilogy, a spinoff of her bestselling series The Raven Cycle.
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Q & A with Hayley Rocco and John Rocco
PW spoke with collaborating couple Hayley and John Rocco about their new picture book 'How to Send a Hug.'
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Q & A with Jyoti Rajan Gopal and art twink
We spoke with Jyoti Rajan Gopal and art twink about their new picture book, 'My Paati's Saris,' gender and identity, and the shortcomings of South Asian representation in books for children.
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