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Happy Book Birthday: New Picture Books, Middle-Grade, YA, and Nonfiction

By Megan Ciskowski, Assistant Publicist Check out September new releases from Lerner Publishing Group!Read more

Podcast Interview with Whitney Stewart, Author of Mindfulness and Meditation

By Libby Stille, Publicist Today on The Lerner Podcast, Mindfulness and Meditation: Handling Life with a Calm and Focused Mind author Whitney Stewart shares mindfulness exercises with us.Read more

Scientist Katie Bouman Featured in Sara Latta’s Black Holes

By Libby Stille, Publicist In honor of this week’s reveal of the first ever image of a black hole, we’re posting the profile of scientist Katie Bouman from Sara Latta’s Twenty-First Century Books title Black Holes: The Weird Science of the Most Mysterious Objects in the Universe. Dr. Bouman spearheaded the project to create an algorithm […]Read more

Author Interviews

Resources for No More Excuses: Dismantling Rape Culture + Podcast Interview with Author Amber J. Keyser

By Libby Stille, Publicist We have some news: we’re launching a podcast! For our first episode, we interviewed Amber J. Keyser, author of No More Excuses: Dismantling Rape Culture, about what teachers, librarians, and everyone else can do to dismantle rape culture.Read more

The Evolution of the Prom

Editor Domenica DiPiazza discusses how proms have evolved from high-society debutante balls to modern high school celebrations.Read more

Bye-Bye Plastic, Hello Homemade Boomerang Bags

Editor Domenica Di Piazza shares how Green Earth Book Award winner Trashing the Planet inspired her to reduce her plastic use. Read more

Vaccination Investigation: Meet Journalist and YA Nonfiction Author Tara Haelle

By Domenica Di Piazza, Editorial Director of Twenty-First Century Books Twenty-First Century Books’ Spring 2018 season is starting off with a bang! One of our YA nonfiction imprint’s newest contributors–science journalist Tara Haelle–got a glowing starred review from Kirkus in February for Vaccination Investigation: The History and Science of Vaccines. Described in the review as […]Read more

Meet Economic Inequality Author Coral Celeste Frazer

By Domenica Di Piazza, Editorial Director of Twenty-First Century Books I invited one of Twenty-First Century Book’s newest writers–Coral Celeste Frazer–to talk about her new YA title for the imprint. Economic Inequality: The American Dream under Siege is out this spring.Read more

Fandom: A Sandbox Where Everybody Gets to Play [Author Spotlight]

By Domenica Di Piazza, Editorial Director of Twenty-First Century Books I invited Francesca Davis DiPiazza to talk about Fandom: Fic Writers, Vidders, Gamers, Artists, and Cosplayers, her newest book for TFCB.Read more

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