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Jan 8, 2025 | 
thehoneypop.com | Julie Dam |Joy McCullough |Stefany Valentine
Roll call for YA book lovers! Our 2025 wouldn’t be right if we didn’t start it out with a YA romance. Today, we have Stefany Valentine’s lovely YA debut, First Love Language. First Love Language follows Taiwanese American Catie Carlson, as she tries to learn about her birth mother and reconnect with her Taiwanese roots. Her new coworker Toby offers his help in teaching her Mandarin in exchange for dating advice on how to ask out his first and only crush.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
thehoneypop.com | Joy McCullough |Julie Dam
Dare we say historical fiction is already rising the ranks this year? We’ve already been to 19th-century China and 16th-century France in the first week alone. Now, let’s travel to 17th-century Rome in Joy McCullough’s new book, Everything is Poison!Everything is Poison follows sixteen-year-old Carmela Tofana who finally gets to enter the workroom in her mother’s apothecary. Carmela looks forward to mixing remedies and other potions.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Veeda Bybee |Joy McCullough |Cheryl Hudson |Traci N. Todd
Veeda Bybee and Joy McCullough. Aladdin, $18.99 (192p) ISBN 978-1-66595-073-2; $7.99 paper ISBN 978-1-6659-5072-5Bybee (A Few of My Favorite Things) and McCullough (Basil & Dahlia) team up in this hilarious series launch. On top of preparing to start sixth grade at Kagan Middle School, Jojo Lopez is struggling to adjust to a new family dynamic after moving in with her mother’s well-known catfluencer boyfriend Paul, aka Mr. Meow.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
literacious.com | Joy McCullough |Laura Arnhold
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Thomas Harding |Kari Percival |Dani Díaz |Joy McCullough
Kim Bussing. Random House, $17.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-593-70803-3Instead of waking up in the cellar of her deceased royal librarian father’s home, 12-year-old Ella, who has a glass leg, finds herself in the home of a traveling merchant fallen on hard times. Out of kindness, she takes his place in meeting Neesa, the mysterious beast of the woods. Now imprisoned in Neesa’s magical castle, Ella must help her break her beastly curse before time runs out.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Thomas Harding |Kari Percival |Dani Díaz |Joy McCullough
Thomas Harding, illus. by Britta Teckentrup. Candlewick Studio, $19.99 (56p) ISBN 978-1-5362-4070-2Today, the tall narrow house on an Amsterdam canal is known worldwide as both a museum honoring the life of Anne Frank (1929–1945) and the Frank family’s hiding place. But as previous collaborators Harding and Teckentrup (The House by the Lake) convey, the house is also part of a “remarkable history” that spans four centuries and myriad reasons for seeking shelter.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Thomas Harding |Kari Percival |Dani Díaz |Joy McCullough
Keenan Jones, illus. by Ken Daley. Beach Lane, $18.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-665-94080-1In his bustling picture book debut, Jones pays nuanced homage to barbershops through the eyes of one child “geeked to go spend/ the day at the ’Shop.” On a Saturday morning, the title’s young narrator, a Black child wearing a ball cap, is dropped off as Mom heads to work. The protagonist, who always arrives first after the barbers, soaks up the lively atmosphere.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Joy McCullough |Thomas Harding |Kari Percival |Dani Díaz
Sixteen-year-old Carmela Tofana has waited her entire life to become an apprentice in her mother’s apothecary shop in Rome. Alongside gruff but loving Maria and quiet Laura, Carmela is eager to learn the shop’s secrets as well as prove to the town that her mother and coworkers are not witches.
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Sep 11, 2024 | 
shorelineareanews.com | Joy McCullough
The Washington Center for the Book, (an affiliate of the Library of Congress Center for the Book administered by Washington State Library, a division of the Office of the Secretary of State) has announced the finalists for its 2023 awards. A Shoreline author, Joy McCullough, has been named in three different categories.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Joy McCullough |Caroline Richmond |Tess Sharpe |Jessica Spotswood
A fictionalized adaptation for teens of the Holocaust survival story Zail shared in her self-published adult memoir, The Tattooed Flower (2006). Switching between Australia in 1982 and Europe during the Holocaust, this work presents two distinct first-person narratives connected by one life. The late-20th-century storyline is a work of shallow realistic fiction about teenage Lisa, whose comfortable life is disrupted when her beloved father is diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
