Jade Adia

Aug 1, 2024 | slj.com | Jade Adia |Ashley Leffel

Gr 10 Up–Sixteen-year-old Niarah is about to fail her sophomore year. Instead of focusing on school, she has spent her time researching the best prepping techniques for the eventual collapse of the world and making summer plans to build her doomsday shelter, Camp Doom. When given the choice between summer school with bullies who exposed her prepper lifestyle on social media and participating in a summer hiking program with cute boy Mac, she chooses the latter.

May 16, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Steven Weinberg |Hena Khan |Jade Adia

Ravynn K. Stringfield. Joy Revolution, $12.99 paper (288p) ISBN 978-0-593-57154-5In a devourable debut, Stringfield cooks up a decadent romance between an ambitious Black American drama student and the pragmatic son of a Parisian chocolatier.

May 8, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Steven Weinberg |Hena Khan |Jade Adia

Catherine Bailey, illus. by Cori Doerrfeld. Union Square, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4549-4854-4Bailey and Doerrfeld skillfully twine story lines in this loving after-hours tribute to a stalwart school building. Following a long day, the school is ready for some much-needed rest (“All the cubbies yawn,/ lined up, clean and neat.// Worksheets settle in./ Erasers are just beat”), and a pale-skinned night guard’s arrival signals the structure’s bedtime.

Feb 28, 2024 | books.disney.com | Jade Adia |Sajni Patel |Allison Saft |Farrah Rochon

An unforgettably powerful coming-of-age story about a 16-year-old LA transplant whose plans to build a doomsday shelter in her backyard collide with an unexpected summer romance. Survival Tip #1: The world is going to shit. Whatever you do, don’t fall in love. Sixteen-year old Niarah Holloway’s only goal in life is to get through it unnoticed. That, and to spend her first summer in LA building a doomsday bunker in her backyard.

Feb 9, 2024 | barnesandnoble.com | Isabelle McConville |Ibi Zoboi |Jade Adia |Jacqueline Woodson

Coretta Scott King Awards and Walter Dean Myers Awards have been bestowed upon the most outstanding works of children’s literature which exemplify the very best of diverse voices. Coretta Scott King and Walter Dean Myers were constant champions of diverse literature for young people, and their awards have carried on this sentiment for their respective recipients each year.