The Lerner Blog

Last month, Carolrhoda Books editor Amy Fitzgerald, wrote a teaser post about her upcoming trip to Book Expo America (BEA). If you haven’t yet read it, her to-do list at the end is worth a spare moment of your time. In addition to consuming an absurd amount of leafy greens prior to her departure, Amy also […]Read more "A Behind-The-Scenes Look at the BEA Editors’ Buzz Panel"

By Domenica Di Piazza, Editorial Director of Twenty-First Century Books I love when my fiction and nonfiction reading converge thematically, and it just happened again for me this week, when I finished Ben Winters’s astonishing 2016 novel Underground Airlines.  In all honesty, I almost put it down three times. I was already familiar with his Raymond Chandler-esque […]Read more "2 Dystopian Nonfiction Books YA Students Need this Fall"

Special thanks to digital intern Amy Richardson for the following post! On June 28th 1969, protests carried out by the gay community against police raids in New York City started a nationwide conversation about LGBTQ rights. The Stonewall Riots made history by serving as a catalyst for future activism within the LGBTQ movement. As a […]Read more "Celebrate Pride Month with Award-Winning eBooks and Audio books"

It’s finally Friday, and we’ve got a giveaway to make your day even better! Here’s how you can enter to win an ARC of Geoffrey Girard’s YA novel Truthers: Goodreads Book Giveaway Truthers by Geoffrey Girard Giveaway ends June 23, 2017. See the giveaway details at Goodreads. Enter Giveaway https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/widget/239110 Katie Wallace has never given much […]Read more "Goodreads YA Novel Giveaway: Truthers by Geoffrey Girard"

By Sara Hoffmann, School & Library Series Managing Editor Happy June, everyone! There’s a lot to celebrate this month. In addition to marking the first full month of summer break for most kids, did you know June also brings many holidays and special days? And with summer stretching out before us, it’s a great time to […]Read more "Celebrate June Holidays with Books"

Meet marketing intern Lam Lai! What brings you to Lerner? I graduated from Macalester College last year, majoring in Creative Writing and Chinese. A professor told me about Lerner and encouraged me to go for it – and now I’m here! It turns out that another professor of mine from Macalester used to be an […]Read more "Meet a Lerner: Lam Lai, New Marketing Intern"

This morning I was talking to a colleague who said, “I’ll be at BookExpo the rest of the week so we can follow up on this after I–” At which point I cut her off with a semi-squealy “Me too!” Because indeed, friends, I will be attending BookExpo America (BEA) in New York City this […]Read more "En Route to BookExpo"