Hayley Dennings

Aug 14, 2024 | bookriot.com | Hayley Dennings |Erica Ezeifedi

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify Stitcher RSS Kelly and Erica discuss August’s new must-read YA releases. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify.

Aug 6, 2024 | bookriot.com | Hayley Dennings |Erica Ezeifedi

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. August has a lot going on, books-wise. Already, there’s TIME‘s list of the best 50 romance novels, S. A. Cosby’s next book will be the first release for a new imprint by Flatiron, and , the first literary prize in the U.S. judged by incarcerated people. And then there are the books.

Jun 20, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Hayley Dennings |Zachariah OHora |Jandy Nelson

Jandy Nelson . Dial, $21.99 (528p) ISBN 978-0-5254-2909-8In this multigenerational epic sprinkled with magic, Nelson (I’ll Give You the Sun) tackles grief, love, and the ways in which history commingles with the present. Fall siblings Dizzy, 12; Miles, 17; and 19-year-old violin prodigy Wynton—named by their winemaker father for his favorite trumpet players—live with their chef mother in paradisial Northern California wine country.

Jun 20, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Alice Hoffman |Hayley Dennings |Zachariah OHora |Jandy Nelson

Alice Hoffman. Scholastic Press, $19.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-338-85694-1In collaboration with the Anne Frank House, Hoffman (The Invisible Hour, for adults) presents a thoroughly researched fictionalized account of Anne Frank’s life. Starting in 1940 and leading up to the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands in 1942, the author chronicles the years during which Anne lived happily with her family in Amsterdam.

Jun 20, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Hayley Dennings |Zachariah OHora |Jandy Nelson

Zachariah OHora. Tundra, $18.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-77488-394-5In a moving tale about “two whales, two boys and two Pauls,” Ohora introduces two kids and their flute-playing father, Paul Horn (1930–2014), who bond with a pair of orcas at a Vancouver sea park. The family, who regularly visit the animals’ enclosure, encounter researcher Paul Spong (b. 1939) playing music to see whether it’s a viable means of communication with the whales.