Un Jour (ONCE) by Morris Gleitzman has won the first Raconte-moi l’histoire prize for a book for young people about history, given by the Centre mondial de la paix, des libertés et des droits de l’homme in Verdun! Even better than getting the prize is the fact that the jury was made up of young people!…
Category: YA fiction
TRANSFERRAL Goes to Michel Lafon
French rights to Kate Blair’s frighteningly realistic sci-fi YA novel, TRANSFERRAL, from Canadian publisher, Cormorant Books (via The Rights Factory), have been snapped up by éditions Michel Lafon. We also represent this title for Dutch and Italian rights, and we’re betting it will be picked up quickly, especially once the news of the TV sale is…
QUEEN OF HEARTS sold to Universal!
Grant Pierce Myers, who wrote last year’s The Maze Runner, has been tapped to adapt Queen Of Hearts, Universal Pictures’ pic based on the Colleen Oakes YA book series that imagines the queen from Alice In Wonderland fame when she was a teen. The plot centers on the young Queen of Hearts from Lewis Carroll’s famed fairytale,…
NIL Is Now Out in France!
“How can you escape from an island that doesn’t exist?” The French edition of NIL by Lynne Matson has just come out from Pocket Jeunesse, and the first reactions are great! A bookseller from the FNAC in Lille says: Si vous avez aimé Lost, croyez moi vous allez adorer Nil. Lynne Matson nous fait voyager…
A Sneak Peek
Here’s the cover of the new Italian edition of Kristin Cashore’s FIRE, to be published by De Agostini in March in the “DeA Best” collection. Isn’t it gorgeous?
OUT OF DARKNESS Receives a Printz Honor Award
Ashley Hope Perez’s novel, Out of Darkness, has won a Printz honor award for Best Young Adult novel. East Texas, 1937. A Mexican girl, a Black boy, in love. Ashley Hope Perez’s beautiful prose brings a timeless story to shattering life. Kirkus Reviews called it:“A “A powerful, layered tale of forbidden love in times of unrelenting racism.”
THE BREAKING WHEEL Sold to Putnam
Publishers Weekly Children’s Bookshelf reports: Stacey Barney at Putnam won at auction Natalie Anderson‘s debut YA novel, The Breaking Wheel. The novel follows a Congolese refugee, Tina, who is nursing visions of revenge after seeing her mother murdered. Anderson has worked for NGOs and the United Nations toward refugee relief in Africa. Publication is planned…
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