From the critically acclaimed author of Say What You Will , a 2015 TRCA nominee, comes a new novel about battling cystic fibrosis and depression.

David Scheinman is the popular president of his senior class, battling cystic fibrosis. Jamie Turner is a quiet sophomore, struggling with depression. The pair’s unlikely friendship starts to turn into something so much more. But neither Jamie nor David can bring themselves to reveal the secrets that weigh most heavily on their hearts-and their time for honesty may be running out.

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, a Hunger Games prequel, is to be released this May. The novel will revisit the world of Panem sixty-four years before the events of The Hunger Games. The first book in Collins’ trilogy was a 2012 TRCA Top 10 novel.

Ellen Hopkins, author of Crank, a TRCA 2012 nominee, has recently signed a two book deal with Putnam’s Books for Young Readers. The first book, Closer to Nowhere, scheduled for publication in October 2020, is a personal story based on Hopkins’s experience raising her grandson as her own daughter struggled with drug addiction.

Sharon Biggs Waller, author of the 2016 TRCA title A Mad, Wicked Folly, has recently released a new novel. Girls on the Verge is the story of teenage pregnancy and Camille’s right to choose.

Camille, successfully playing Ophelia in a local community theater production of Hamlet, draws attention from the cutest boy in the play, and secures a spot in a prestigious theater program. But after learning the great news, she also finds out she’s pregnant. She can’t tell her parents and her best friend doesn’t agree with the decision Camille has made. At her most vulnerable, Camille reaches out to Annabelle Ponsonby, a girl she only barely knows from the theater. Annabelle agrees to drive her wherever she needs to go and eventually Bea comes on-board. Over the course of more than a thousand miles, friendships will be tested and dreams will be challenged.