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BEA 2015: Editors Buzz About Middle Grade Books
Editors gathered at BEA Friday morning to share their favorite middle-grade books for fall.
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BEA 2015: Judy Schachner: Welcoming a New Picture-Book Hero
Best known as the creator of SkippyJon Jones, the frisky Siamese who thinks he’s a Chihuahua, Judy Schachner has added a new member to her family of animal characters.
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BEA 2015: Michael Buckley: Making a Bold Step into YA
Author of the bestselling middle-grade Sisters Grimm and Nerds series, Michael Buckley enters the YA arena with "Undertow" (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, May), the first in a planned trilogy.
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BEA 2015: Scott Westerfeld: Investigating Crowd Power
A group of teens with unusual abilities are catapulted from zero to hero status in a YA trilogy that kicks off with "Zeroes" (Simon Pulse, Sept.), written by a trio: Scott Westerfeld, Margo Lanagan, and Deborah Biancotti.
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Katherine Applegate: Something New, Echoes of the Old
How daunting is it to return to one’s writing desk after winning the Newbery?
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BEA 2015: Salina Yoon Expands Penguin’s World
The creator of more than 140 novelty books for the youngest readers, Salina Yoon moved on to picture books in 2012 with "Penguin and Pinecone," the story of a scarf-clad Antarctica penguin who finds a fast friend in a pinecone.
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BEA 2015: David Baldacci Continues His Fantasy World-Building
"The Finisher," David Baldacci’s debut YA fantasy in March, introduced iron-willed Vega Jane, who takes a stand and fights to do what’s right after discovering that her village of Wormwood is built on dangerous lies.
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BEA 2015: Delia Ephron & Ed Koren: To the Manners Reborn
The idea for the first edition of Delia Ephron’s book, "Do I Have to Say Hello?" was hatched when she picked up her eight-year-old nephew at the airport and he told her to take him to the baseball card shop.
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Rebecca Stead: On Middle-Grade Love and Identity
"It's about love," says Newbery author Rebecca Stead, describing her new novel, "Goodbye Stranger" (Random House/Wendy Lamb, Aug.).
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BEA 2015: Brian Selznick: A Novel Hybrid of Pictures and Prose
Brian Selznick offers a new take on his multidimensional storytelling technique in "The Marvels" (Scholastic Press, Sept.), which balances two stories.
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BEA 2015: Barry Lyga: Merging Three Creative Minds
An actor, a Hollywood producer, and a bestselling author have pooled their talents to create a YA novel set on a future Earth plagued by environmental collapse and mass poverty.
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BEA 2015: Carolyn Mackler: Linking Together Significant Moments
Life is a series of moments. And some of the most memorable ones—good or bad—come during high school.
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Candace Fleming and Eric Rohmann: A Creative Collaboration
The wife-husband creative team who first collaborated on 2012's "Oh, No!" has arrived at BEA to talk about their latest work together, "Bulldozer's Big Day" (Atheneum, May).
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BEA 2015: Gwenda Bond: Placing Lois Lane in the Spotlight
Since her 1938 debut, Lois Lane has played pivotal roles in an array of comics, movies, and TV shows.
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Four Questions for… Sona Charaipotra and Dhonielle Clayton
Sona Charaipotra and Dhonielle Clayton's first book, 'Tiny Pretty Things,' is the story of three ballerinas from diverse backgrounds at a competitive Manhattan ballet school.
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BEA 2015: Mélanie Watt: Not a Squirrel or a Cat—It's a Bug
The author of series starring Scaredy Squirrel and Chester the cat, Mélanie Watt showcases a considerably smaller creature in "Bug in a Vacuum" (Tundra Books, Aug.).
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BEA 2015: Ben Hatke: His First for Early Readers
Curiosity may have killed the cat, but it fueled the imagination of Ben Hatke, and sparked his graphic novel "Little Robot" (Roaring Brook/First Second, Sept.).
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John Green to Crash Course Fans: 'Read Your Boring Textbooks'
When John Green is asked if he's aware that high school students watch his Crash Course videos in lieu of reading textbooks, his response was adamant: "They should read their boring textbooks."
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Jules Feiffer in Conversation with Neil Gaiman
Jules Feiffer and Neil Gaiman, whose careers have spanned genres including writing for adults, children, and comics, spent an evening in conversation at the 92nd Y in New York City on May 14.
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Jay Asher's '50 States Against Bullying' Tour in Photos
Jay Asher, author of 'Thirteen Reasons Why,' the longtime bestseller that confronts the topics of teen suicide and bullying, took the book, and his message #ReasonsWhyYouMatter, on the road.
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