Happy Friday, YA librarians! Spring is around the corner (or so they say…), but the setting in this fairy tale retelling is as frigid as they come. Bundle up! ECHO NORTH by Joanna Ruth Meyer9781624147159Ages 14 And UpAvailable now from Page Street Kids As a child, Echo Alkaev was brutally attacked by a wolf. Her […]
Tag: Kirkus Reviews
Spring 2019 YA Romance Roundup
Valentine’s Day might be over, but it’s always a good day for a little romance! Check out these sweet & steamy YA / NA romances coming from Wednesday Books and Flatiron Books this spring! And keep an eye out for the green download button! If you’re not whitelisted (pre-approved) on Edelweiss for our e-galleys, you […]
Two stars for TIN HEART!
Shivaun Plozza’s charming and romantic second novel, TIN HEART, has received two starred reviews! “Funny and direct, this book by Plozza is capable of balancing heartbreak, first love, mortality, and the absurd or, as Marlowe puts it, “that moment when you’re standing in front of Bert’s Quality Butchers holding a speaker blasting ‘Meat Is Murder.’”” […]
Kirkus Best Books of 2018 – Nonfiction
Kirkus Reviews includes 8 Macmillan titles on their Best Books for 2018 list! Biography MR. LEAR: A Life of Art and Nonsense by Jenny Uglow Popular Science DARWIN COMES TO TOWN: How the Urban Jungle Drives Evolution by Menno Schilthuizen THE CONSCIOUSNESS INSTINCT: Unraveling the Mystery of How the Brain Makes the Mind by Michael […]
Kirkus’ Best YA of 2018
Kirkus Reviews just released their Best YA of 2018 lists and three Macmillan titles made the cut! Best YA Fantasy of 2018: THE HAZEL WOOD by Melissa Albert Welcome to The Hazel Wood, Melissa Albert’s fierce, captivating contemporary fantasy about a seventeen-year-old girl who must venture into the world behind a pitch-dark, cult-classic collection of […]
THE GILDED WOLVES makes the Winter 2019 Kids’ Indie Next List!
The Winter 2019 Kid’s Indie Next List was announced yesterday and includes THE GILDED WOLVES by Roshani Chokshi in the Top Ten! THE GILDED WOLVES by Roshani Chokshi Available January 15, 2019 from Wednesday Books FOUR STARRED REVIEWS!! Paris, 1889: In this city, no one keeps tabs on secrets better than treasure-hunter and wealthy hotelier, […]
Ling Ma’s SEVERANCE Wins 2018 Kirkus Prize for Fiction
Congratulations to Ling Ma’s debut SEVERANCE for winning the 2018 Kirkus Prize for fiction! “Smart, funny, humane, and superbly well-written.” —Kirkus, starred review “Embracing the [apocalyptic fiction] genre but somehow transcending it, Ma creates a truly engrossing and believable anti-Utopian world… [An] extraordinary debut.”—Booklist, starred review “A clever and dextrous debut.”—Publishers […]
Two Stars for ECHO NORTH!
We’re thrilled that Joanna Ruth Meyer’s YA fairy tale, ECHO NORTH, has received two starred reviews! “In this reimagining of ‘East of the Sun, West of the Moon,’ a young woman ostracized for the facial scars she received from a wolf attack finds new purpose when she bargains with that same wolf to save her […]
Book Club Picks from Our Pals Reese and Kirkus! (10/10/18)
We’re thrilled that Reese Witherspoon selected Laurie Frankel’s THIS IS HOW IT ALWAYS IS as her October Hello Sunshine Book Club pick, and Kirkus Reviews named Ling Ma’s SEVERANCE and James Miller’s CAN DEMOCRACY WORK “Excellent Fall Reads for Your Book Club! […]
YA Nonfiction Round-Up
Strong girls. Social media. Special ops. Syrian refugees. Our Fall 2018 YA nonfiction is spectacular! TEEN TRAILBLAZERS: 30 Fearless Girls Who Changed the World Before They Were 20 by Jennifer Calvert, illustrated by Vesna Asanovic Available now from Castle Point Books Ages 12 to 18 “In this superb, concise collection of 30 mini-biographies of little- […]
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