In this, the second novel in the Sea of Ink and Gold Trilogy, Sefia and Archer’s adventure continues as Archer searches for a way to combat his nightmares of his time with the impressors, and Sefia becomes more and more consumed by her study of the Book.
As many of you will remember, The Reader, the first trilogy installment, was a TRCA 2018 Nominee.
From the author of We Were Liars, a TRCA winning novel, comes Genuine Fraud. Having received five starred reviews and described as “compulsively readable,” Lockhart’s new book tells the story of Imogen and Julie. One is a runaway heiress, an orphan, a cook, and a cheat. The other is a fighter, a social chameleon, and an athlete.
Five years after The Fault in Our Stars, a 2013 TRCA Top 10 novel, John Green has written another novel that is believed to have wide appeal to the teen market. Turtles All the Way Down, Green’s fifth solo novel, tells the story of sixteen-year-old Aza and her best and most fearless friend, Daisy.
Described as “a tender story about learning to cope when the world feels out of control,” Turtles All the Way Down, released on 10 Oct. 2017, is already a #1 New York Times Bestseller, a #1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller, a #1 International Bestseller and a USA Today Bestseller.
All the Bright Places is a 2015 young adult novel by Jennifer Niven. The work was first published on January 6, 2015 and was a TRCA Top 10 novel for the 2015-2016 academic year. A film adaptation starring Elle Fanning is currently in pre-production and will be released in 2018.
Author Kate Milford recently released her new book Ghosts of Greenglass House. Described as “an enchanting, empowering read” this novel is a sequel to Greenglass House a previous TRCA Top 10 and winner of the Edgar Award for Best Juvenile Mystery.
Ghosts of Greenglass House returns the reader to the inn where young Milo is, once again, spending the winter holidays stuck in a house full of strange guests who are not what they seem. Milo will have to work with friends old and new to uncover clues in search of a mysterious map and a famous smuggler’s lost haul.
We Are All Made of Molecules has won the Prix Farniente in Belgium! The Prix Farniente is an annual Belgian based international award for literature for young readers.
We Are All Made of Molecules, written by a Canadian author, was a 2017 TRCA Top Ten nominee.
The L.A. Times Book awards were presented Friday night at USC just before the opening of the two-day L.A. Times Festival of Books. I am pleased to report that Frances Hardinge’s The Lie Tree won in the young adult literature category.
In this EW interview Becky Albertalli discusses how her new book, The Upside of Unrequited, features cameos from those in Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda. The author also discusses her upcoming third book, which will be the sequel to Simon with Leah’s point of view, and the Simon movie.
Veep star Tony Hale has recently joined the cast of Fox 2000’s coming-of-age story Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda.
The studio began developing the movie in October after it picked up movie rights to Becky Albertalli’s 2015 book about sixteen-year-old and not-so-openly gay Simon Spier.
The cast includes Jennifer Garner, Katherine Langford, Alexandra Shipp, Logan Miller and Talitha Bateman.
Teen Reader's Choice Award 