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Bringing Joy to Readers: Close-Up on Marie Lu
Marie Lu spoke to PW about her newest YA novel, Stars and Smoke, how writing it during the pandemic helped her navigate a challenging time, pop stardom, and what goes into building romantic tension between characters. (Sponsored)
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Q & A with Nick Brooks
Teacher turned filmmaker Nick Brooks follows up his middle grade debut 'Nothing Ever Happens to Ethan Fairmont' with a highly anticipated foray into YA, a thriller called 'Promise Boys.'
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Q & A with Ami Polonsky
Ami Polonsky's newest book for young readers, 'World Made of Glass,' is set in 1987 and features Iris, a 12-year-old facing her father's death from AIDS.
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Q & A with Claire Swinarski
PW talked with Claire Swinarski about addressing the "urgent and timeless" problem of sexual harassment in her new middle grade novel, 'What Happened to Rachel Riley?'
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Fall 2022 Flying Starts: Jas Hammonds
You could say it was written in the stars for flight attendant–turned–author Jas Hammonds to write books. Their YA debut, 'We Deserve Monuments', showcases a multigenerational story about a Black family and their roots in the small town of Burrell, Ga.
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Fall 2022 Flying Starts: Esme Symes-Smith
Born in Exeter, in the southwest of England, Esme Symes-Smith spent a great deal of time in Cornwall, which would later influence the setting of their debut novel, 'Sir Callie and the Champions of Helston', a middle grade fantasy in which a nonbinary would-be knight pushes back against gender stereotypes and restrictions.
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Fall 2022 Flying Starts: C.C. Harrington
Debut author C.C. Harrington has felt a strong draw toward animal stories since her childhood in the English countryside. Set in 1963, her middle grade novel 'Wildoak' follows two viewpoints: those of 11-year-old Maggie Stevens and snow leopard cub Rumpus.
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Fall 2022 Flying Starts: Liza Ferneyhough
“It was a drawing I did of my grandmother’s teacup,” author-illustrator Liza Ferneyhough says, recalling the image that set her on the creative path of transforming a mental catalog of multicultural family memories into her debut picture book, 'Nana, Nenek & Nina'.
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Fall 2022 Flying Starts: Skyler Schrempp
Debut author Skyler Schrempp's experience in theater helped her to home in on the voice of her historical middle grade novel, 'Three Strike Summer', about a girl whose family loses their Dust Bowl farm during the Great Depression.
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Fall 2022 Flying Starts: Zoulfa Katouh
Science and stories have always been twin threads running through Zoulfa Katouh’s life. Now a pharmacist working on cancer research and the debut author of the acclaimed novel 'As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow,' set amid the Syrian revolution, Katouh has found a way to keep both sides of her heart engaged.
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Fall 2022 Flying Starts
We spotlight the authors of six of the season’s most promising children’s and YA debuts.
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Jason Reynolds Closes Out Term as National Ambassador
On December 13, students and publishing professionals gathered at the Library of Congress to commemorate the end of Jason Reynolds's three-year run as the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature.
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Four Questions for LaLa Thomas
LaLa Thomas's debut YA novel '16 & Pregnant,' inspired by the MTV reality show of the same name, highlights one of the issues she saw as a middle school and high school educator in Nevada for 10 years: teenage pregnancy.
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Four Questions for Leonard S. Marcus
We spoke with children's literature historian Leonard S. Marcus about his new middle grade book, 'Mr. Lincoln Sits for His Portrait,' and his lifelong fascination with America's 16th president.
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Q & A with James Klise
As a teacher librarian at CICS Northtown Academy in Chicago, and an Edgar and Stonewall Honor Award-winning YA author, Klise is passionate about getting the right books into the right hands at the right time.
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On Tour with Kiera Cass
Kiera Cass, author of the bestselling The Selection series, went on tour to promote her new YA novel, 'A Thousand Heartbeats,' to readers in Texas and Missouri last week.
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In Conversation: Isabel Wilkerson and Beverly Horowitz
We asked Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Isabel Wilkerson and her editor Beverly Horowitz to discuss the process of adapting Wilkerson's adult bestseller 'Caste' for young readers, and how high school is a microcosm of social hierarchies.
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Holt Acquires Sought-After Debut YA Horror Duology
Last month, Henry Holt editor Jess Harold won a seven-house auction for YA author Jamison Shea's debut novel 'I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me.'
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Sabaa Tahir Wins 2022 National Book Award for Young People's Literature
Sabaa Tahir received this year's Young People's Literature prize for her YA novel 'All My Rage'; during her tearful acceptance speech, Tahir noted, "I am the first Muslim and Pakistani American woman to win this award.”
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Lauren Tarshis Leads a Virtual 'I Survived' Field Trip
On November 10, an estimated 88,000 students from 30 countries participated in a "virtual field trip" based on Lauren Tarshis's latest I Survived historical adventure.
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