“Skillful plotting and shocking reveals propel” Sloan Harlow’s “twisty, Arizona-set romantic thriller,” YA novel ALL WE LOST WAS EVERYTHING

🎉 Congratulations @randyribay.bsky.social ! We are so thrilled that EVERYTHING WE NEVER HAD is the @apalaweb.org young adult WINNER! 🎉

🎉The ALA party is just getting started! Congratulations to @laurensealwrites.bsky.social , LIGHT ENOUGH TO FLOAT is a Schneider Family Book Award Young Adult Honor winner!! 📖

YAY, big congratulations @annaksortino.bsky.social ! ON THE BRIGHT SIDE is a Schneider Family Book Award Young Adult Honor honor!! 🥳🧡

INCREDIBLE! CHRONICALLY DOLORES is the Schneider Family Book Award Young Adult WINNER! 🥳📖

OMG! BLACK GIRL YOU ARE ATLAS is a Coretta Scott King Author Honor winner! Congratulations, Renée Watson! 🧡🥳

¡Felicidades Bessie Flores Zaldívar! LIBERTAD is a Pura Belpré author honor book, YAY! 🥳🧡

It's New Release Tuesday! Welcome to the shelves: Lies on the Serpent's Tongue by Kate Pearsall The Secret Year by Jennifer Hubbard (paperback) True True by Don P. Hooper (paperback) The Cursed Rose by Leslie Vedder (paperback)

THE GHOSTKEEPER was named one of Kirkus’s Best Books of 2024!! 🤩 👻 I am stunned and delighted, thank you so much to the team at @penguinteen.bsky.social for helping me make my lil ghost book a reality!! www.kirkusreviews.com/best-of/2024...

“But we’re never what our parents expected. They have to learn that lesson.” @malindalo.bsky.social, Last Night at the Telegraph Club

<3 to the Boston Public Library Teen Services for this shout out (I hope they make it over to bsky soon!)

"I learn in this moment that love doesn't go away when people do. If people bear the trauma of their ancestors, doesn't it follow that they also bear their rhapsodies? If there is generational pain passed down, mustn't there also be generational joy?" Jandy Nelson, When the World Tips Over