Happy Book Birthday: New Picture Books, Graphic Novels, Young Adult, and Nonfiction
Check out March new releases from Lerner Publishing Group!Read more "Happy Book Birthday: New Picture Books, Graphic Novels, Young Adult, and Nonfiction"
Torch: An Interview with Author Lyn Miller-Lachmann
Set in 1969 Prague, Torch explores the devastating impact of a totalitarian regime and the different ways young people carve out futures for themselves against impossible odds. The story is told from the perspective of three characters after 17-year-old Pavol fatally sets himself on fire to protest the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. Author Lyn Miller-Lachmann […]Read more "Torch: An Interview with Author Lyn Miller-Lachmann"
Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults: Resources and Events Coming Soon!
By Megan Ciskowski, Associate Publicist In less than a month Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults will hit the shelves! If that wasn’t exciting enough, we have some more news that will shake up your fall season. Read on to find out what we have planned.Read more "Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults: Resources and Events Coming Soon!"
Funeral Girl: An Interview with Author Emma K. Ohland
Sixteen-year-old Georgia Richter feels conflicted about the funeral home her parents run—especially because she has the ability to summon ghosts. Funeral Girl follows Georgia as she reckons with her relationship to grief and mortality. Today author Emma K. Ohland joins us on the blog to answer some questions about her writing process and her hopes […]Read more "Funeral Girl: An Interview with Author Emma K. Ohland"
Meet the Imprints: Carolrhoda Books & Carolrhoda Lab
We kick off our Meet the Imprints feature with Carolrhoda Books (middle grade fiction) and Carolrhoda Lab (young adult fiction). The mission of Carolrhoda Books is to publish distinctive books with heart, including picture books (which we’ll cover later) and middle grade novels that tackle tough and timely subject matter, in stories told with fresh […]Read more "Meet the Imprints: Carolrhoda Books & Carolrhoda Lab"
Teen Innovators: An Interview with Author Fred Estes
“When will I ever use this?” Every STEM teacher has heard this question before and will likely hear it again. Answer your students with Teen Innovators: Nine Young People Engineering a Better World with Creative Inventions. This new nonfiction profiles nine YA innovators who discovered a problem, conducted research, and used STEM to solve the […]Read more "Teen Innovators: An Interview with Author Fred Estes"
Unretouchable: An Interview with Author Sofia Szamosi
In the new YA graphic novel by debut author Sofia Szamosi, readers follow Olive as she spends the summer before art school at a coveted internship helping one of the fashion industry’s elite digital-imaging specialists. After a glamourous New York photoshoot, she learns that taking pictures is only the first step andis thrown into the […]Read more "Unretouchable: An Interview with Author Sofia Szamosi"
Turning Heads with TeenTober
By Megan Ciskowski, Associate Publicist What do young adults get really excited about? Art, music, cosplay? The library is the perfect place to introduce teens to their next great love.Read more "Turning Heads with TeenTober"
A Summer for Sweetgrass
by Megan Ciskowski, Associate Publicist In 2013, Milkweed editions published Braiding Sweetgrass by Indigenous botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer. Since that time, the book has become a New York Times Bestseller and continues to earn recognition in both the literary and science fields. This November, Zest Books ™, an imprint of Lerner Publishing Group, will release […]Read more "A Summer for Sweetgrass"
