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What’s your fashion style? Boho, streetwear, or edgy? Hipster or preppy? Maybe a combination of two or three of these? Lerner’s new series What’s Your Style? is perfect for young readers trying to put together their own fashion styles.           The books include information on celebrities who epitomize each style, as well […]Read more "FREE fashion DIY: Duct tape handbags"

    For Saint Patrick’s Day reading, check out our website for titles with a connection to Ireland. For starters, take a look at these: Ireland (Country Explorers series) by Madeline Donaldson (Lerner Publications, 2011). Learn more about the culture, people, and geography of Ireland. Irish in America (In America series) by Margaret J. Goldstein […]Read more "Saint Patrick’s Day Reading List"

Happy Pi (3.14) Day! In honor of this occasion (and, well, because it’s Free Book Friday), we’ll be giving away another book.  But first, congratulations to CT McNeely! You’ve won a copy of The Shibboleth by John Hornor Jacobs! Please send us a DM on Twitter or an email to publicityinfo@lernerbooks.com with the subject line “Free Book Friday” and tell us […]Read more "Free Book Friday: Pi Day Edition"

“Our world is full of uncertainties,” an elementary-school friend of my sister’s was fond of saying in a faux-sinister voice. And how right you were, Jane. As I write this, students across the country are deep in the weeds of standardized test-taking, hoping their erasers will survive their attempts to prove that they can spot the […]Read more "The Blog Post Will Be Multiple Choice: Kid Lit Questions and "Answers""

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Congratulations to the RRHS Library Staff (@rrhslib)! They’ve won our What’s Your Style? series! 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 books in the mail. And now for something completely different. This week’s free book? The Shibboleth, the second […]Read more "Free Book Friday!"

Have you seen Millbrook’s gorgeous new book Handle with Care: An Unusual Butterfly Journey? It tells the story of the butterflies we see at museums and special exhibits. Did you know there are actual butterfly farms in South America, where butterflies are raised from larvae? (I didn’t.) Learn more about this fascinating process, documented by […]Read more "Pictures of beautiful butterflies"

Congratulations to Brenda Schrider (@bschride)! You are the winner of Mumbet’s Declaration of Independence by Gretchen Woelfle with illustrations by Alix Delinois! 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. Attention fashionistas! Are you bummed that […]Read more "Free Book Friday!"

Here’s a guest post from Jenna Lester, our awesome and astute editorial intern without whom much of my list’s back matter wouldn’t exist. Jenna has exciting news to share about a conference that’s sure to be of interest to all writers and book lovers!Greetings, fellow book lovers! As the current editorial intern here at Lerner, […]Read more "AWP Writing Conference"