Got the mid-summer reading doldrums? EXCELLENT. Allow me to introduce you to thirteen dark and creepy tales guaranteed to pull you out of that funk… HIS HIDEOUS HEART ed. by Dahlia Adler9781250302779Available September 10, 2019 from Flatiron BooksAges 12 to 18 HIS HIDEOUS HEART is a collection of Edgar Allen Poe’s eeriest tales, reimagined by […]
Tag: Kirkus Reviews
Teen Talk (3/26/3019 Edition)
Hello, YA librarians! Check out our latest & greatest YA titles from this month, then join us on Twitter today at 2:30pm EST for Early Word YA Galley Chat (#ewgcya) and tell us what you’ve been reading & loving! TIN HEART by Shivaun Plozza9781250312761Ages 12 to 18When Marlowe gets a heart transplant and a second […]
Day’s YA – ECHO NORTH
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 […]
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 […]
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