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We have sooo many exciting series coming out in Fall 2014, blog readers! One of my favorites is called Entertainment’s Top 10 (cover pictured)—a series that presents lists of the most awesome things happening in four different entertainment categories (Movies and TV, Music and Theater, Sports, and Technology). Now, I don’t want to spoil the […]Read more "Ten Things about Sandy Donovan"

We’re in the home stretch here at Lerner Digital. Lots and lots of new ebooks, interactive books, and…secret mystery books for our new mysteriously secret product. I can’t break away from QA for very long, but I wanted to make sure you got your fix of web gems for the week. Enjoy! The Value of […]Read more "Digital Tuesday: Web Gems!"

For the cover of Carrie Mesrobian’s Perfectly Good White Boy, I had to audition some pretty grungy characters: floors and surfaces in and around the Lerner offices. Lest you think book design is all about glamour. Here are some of the runners up and why they weren’t cast: The oft-trod carpet outside of my office. […]Read more "Auditions for a book cover"

Congratulations to Heidi Grange (@GeoLibrarian)! You’ve won Plastic, Ahoy! Please send us a DM on Twitter or an email to publicityinfo@lernerbooks.com with the subject line “Free Book Friday” and tell us your mailing addresses so we can get your book in the mail. This week, enter to win A Matter of Souls, a collection of short stories that “offers spectacular literary […]Read more "Free Book Friday!"

Summer’s coming, and along with it comes more free time for many young students. Will this be the summer that kids learn to take on more responsibility for themselves? Lerner’s Responsibility in Action series, from the trusted First Step Nonfiction brand, is all about kids showing what they can do. Each book walks through a […]Read more "FREE teaching guide for First Step Nonfiction: Responsibility in Action"

TRANSGENDER AMERICA Wow, TFCB and Kirstin Cronn-Mills (winner of this year’s Stonewall Award for her YA novel Beautiful Music for Ugly Children)got some great early publicity from Kelly Jensen on BOOK RIOT this week for Kirstin’s latest book, Transgender Lives, a nonfiction YA title under the TFCB imprint. This amazing new TFCB book for Fall […]Read more ""

Congratulations to Christina Taylor (@cetaylor05)! You’ve won The Story of Owen! Please send us a DM on Twitter or an email to publicityinfo@lernerbooks.com with the subject line “Free Book Friday” and tell us your mailing addresses so we can get your book in the mail. This week, enter to win Plastic, Ahoy!: Investigating the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Plastic: it’s used […]Read more "Free Book Friday!"

You guys, the librarian in the elementary school I went to was wonderful. I was remembering this just the other day as I was pondering why I feel drawn to high-interest subject matter in books. See, he used to say that if you didn’t like a book, you should put it down immediately. He firmly […]Read more "For the Love of High Interest"

A couple of weeks ago, Lerner Digital (and the rest of the Lerner crew) invaded New Orleans for the annual IRA conference. For those of you who don’t know, IRA stands for International Reading Association. IRA is attended mostly by teachers and literacy pros, which is exactly the kind of people who enjoy Lerner Digital […]Read more "LD Gone Wild: New Orleans"