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Spring 2024 Flying Starts: LaDarrion Williams
LaDarrion Williams is having his “I told you so” moment. After struggling to have his short film featuring Black boy magic picked up by Hollywood executives, Williams is sitting on a bestseller: his YA debut fantasy novel, 'Blood at the Root.'
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Spring 2024 Children’s Flying Starts
We spotlight five of the season’s most promising children’s and YA debuts.
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Spring 2024 Flying Starts: Cassandra Calin
Cassandra Calin's career as a cartoonist began on the internet. Ten years later, Calin is reintroducing herself with the middle grade graphic novel 'The New Girl,' her debut long-form endeavor, in which she highlights the parallel experiences of moving to a new country and the start of her first period.
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Spring 2024 Flying Starts: Xin Li
Xin Li’s picture book debut, 'I Lived Inside a Whale,' came into being during the upheaval of the pandemic. “I thought about this girl wanting to run away from all the chaos and mess,” she says.
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Spring 2024 Flying Starts: Amber Chen
Amber Chen sees echoes of Tamora Pierce’s Song of the Lioness series in her first YA novel. 'Of Jade and Dragons.'
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In Conversation: Leah Johnson, Kyle Lukoff, and Abdi Nazemian Share Their Hopes for Queer Children's Lit
In honor of Pride Month, we asked recent Stonewall Award winners and honorees Leah Johnson ('You Should See Me in a Crown'), Kyle Lukoff ('Too Bright to See'), and Abdi Nazemian ('Only This Beautiful Moment') to discuss how they celebrate queerness in their novels, and their hopes for the future of LGBTQ+ literature for young people.
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A Busload of Joy: PW Talks with Loren Long
In 'The Yellow Bus,' author-illustrator Loren Long traces a school bus's journey in a tale whose changing landscape tells a story of its own.
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Why YA Readers Love Murder
Author Diana Urban reflects on why young readers are so enthralled by murder-centric stories, making mysteries and thrillers such hot genres in YA publishing today.
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'Healing Through Connection': PW Talks with John Cochran
In contemporary middle grade novel 'Breaking into Sunlight,' journalist and debut author John Cochran chronicles a tween’s experience having a parent with a substance dependency.
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Jeff Kinney Throws Beantown Party for All-Star Librarians
Diary of a Wimpy Kid series author Jeff Kinney hosted a group of librarians in Boston and at his Plainville, Mass., bookstore, An Unlikely Story, for a fun-filled weekend.
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Q & A with Sangu Mandanna
Sangu Mandanna—author of numerous adult, YA, and middle grade novels spanning various genres—adds a new category to her expansive backlist with middle grade fantasy graphic novel 'Jupiter Nettle and the Seven Schools of Magic,' illustrated by Pablo Ballesteros.
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In Conversation: Tracy Badua and Alechia Dow
We asked friends and fellow foodies Tracy Badua and Alechia Dow to discuss their new middle grade mystery, 'The Cookie Crumbles,' about a baking competition gone wrong.
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Cherry Mo on Finding 'Home in a Lunchbox'—and a Book
In an essay for PW, Cherry Mo reflects on the comfort and friendship she found in her school library as a young immigrant, and coming full circle as a children's author and illustrator.
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Q & A with Tiffany Jewell
We spoke with Tiffany Jewell, a Black biracial author and anti-bias anti-racist educator, about the early roots of her activism, and her approach to teaching and writing.
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On Tour with Holly Jackson
One of the reigning queens of YA mystery thrillers, London-based Holly Jackson crossed the pond recently for her first-ever U.S. tour.
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Q & A with Kristin Cashore
In her speculative YA novel 'There Is a Door in This Darkness,' Kristin Cashore—the author of the Graceling Realm novels and 'Jane, Unlimited'—draws from personal experience to chronicle a teen dealing with chronic pain and processing grief amid the Covid crisis and the 2020 presidential election.
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YA Author and Aviatrix Elizabeth Wein Takes to the Skies
Before winning an International Thriller Writers' award for her YA murder mystery 'Stateless,' a tale of aviation in 1937, Elizabeth Wein spent several weeks flying from California to Georgia and back in a rented single-engine plane.
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In Conversation: Jewell Parker Rhodes and Kelly McWilliams
We asked the mother-daughter duo Jewell Parker Rhodes and Kelly McWilliams to discuss their first picture book collaboration, 'Soul Step,' illustrated by Briana Mukodiri Uchendu, and the joys of traditional African American dance.
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On Tour with Traci Sorell and Michaela Goade
Author Traci Sorell and illustrator Michaela Goade recently went on a one-week tour to celebrate their new picture book, 'Being Home.'
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Q & A with Molly Knox Ostertag
Ostertag spoke with PW about the genesis of her new YA book, and how it went from a vague feeling to a full-fledged graphic novel.
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