My favorite moment of the night when we were acting out her grand slam of a debut as if it literally was a grand slam, and Angeline is like “All the aunties are lele-ing” 💗🔥Ever grateful to know you and be here to witness all your success @angelineboulley 💗
Also pictured the team and the @birchbark_books baddies 🔥 Love you all so freaking much.
Big love to my stepmom @mplsdominguez for making it out too and being my plus-one 💗💗
Shout out to my girl Morgan at Macmillan for the photos 💗🙏🏽
Loved all the beautiful people and friends and new friends in the audience. Big love always.
🔥🔥🔥in case you’re impatient about reveal videos 🔥🔥🔥 lol it’s OK me too 😘
Literally am convinced I’m never going to get over this cover by @arte_de_gustavo__ 🙏🏽
⭐ Monthly Stars Round-Up! ⭐
We are proud to share that our clients earned SIX starred reviews this month across five incredible books. Swipe through to celebrate each one! 🎉
★ BAT AND THE CASE OF THE YIPS — SLJ
★ RAVEN, RISING — Publishers Weekly & Kirkus Reviews (two stars!)
★ HOLLOWAY — BCCB
★ TOGETHER WE SEE — Booklist
★ AN EXPANSE OF BLUE — Booklist
Add these to your TBR and spread the love!
#StarredReview #KidLit #MiddleGrade #YALit #LiteraryAgent
The OTHER spotlight at @publisherswkly featured TOGETHER WE SEE and a conversation about activism in YA right now and the wave of books doing this work this year ❤️ Still pinching myself how my book’s picture even gets to hangout by Elizabeth Acevedo’s newest 😂🫠
Somedays you get surprised and find out both your books are on @publisherswkly two spotlight articles this week 😭 First one here…Little snippet of @ty_chapmn and my anthology WITNESS featured on “YA AUTHORS SPEAK UP AND SPEAK OUT” by Joanne O’Sullivan also featuring @teacher.lesley PLAYBOOK FOR JUSTICE 👏🏽
Authors, if you can hit reshare, we’d so appreciate it 🙏🏽
Spring drop ✨💋been renting romcoms, slicing fruit, chasing flowers, chasing babies, seeing loves, dressing up, hunting down bookshelves 🥰 Might not be in Paris, but April is 😍
⭐️ Books you NEED TO KNOW ABOUT. These aren’t just good reviews—these are starred for a reason.
Which one are you adding to your summer reading list?
Celebrating our titles that have received starred reviews this past month:
⭐️ “Nora’s characterization is incredibly powerful, capturing the nuances of an autistic experience, from the trauma of masking behaviors to the strength of pattern recognition. What’s even more impressive is Arnold’s ability to bring humanity to the complexity of the pandemic and anti-vax parents without diminishing the harm caused by how those are handled. A must purchase.” – Booklist for HOLLOWAY
⭐️ “Author-illustrator Takvorian rejects silent erasure in her searing debut spotlighting her family history . . . Takvorian’s story must be loudly, repeatedly, undeniably told.” – Booklist for ARMAVENI
⭐️ “. . . unforgettable and deeply necessary . . .” – BCCB for ARMAVENI
⭐️ “In this subtle but powerful debut YA novel, a Native Hawaiian teen explores connection, heartbreak, and identity through poetry.” – Shelf Awareness for AN EXPANSE OF BLUE
⭐️ “An adrenaline rush-inducing must-read.” – SLJ for TOGETHER WE SEE
#bookreels
#yalit
#kidlit
#bookrecommendations
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A STAR FROM @sljournal FOR TOGETHER WE SEE 😭✨
Honestly, as a girl who has called herself a poet, seeing this verdict feels like a such a huge compliment 🙈😭
Feeling 🫠🫠
Ever grateful to even be reviewed, and all the more jazzed to get a star 🌟🥹
Full review: Gr 8 Up–Ulá’s father Andres has always seemed more interested in activism than parenting, and his pushiness about their native Bribri (Indigenous Costa Rican) heritage has also pushed them apart. Despite the distance between them, his not-entirely-unexpected death still rocks Ulá. Even if she and her brother Kabék had very different relationships with their father, they’re equally determined to honor him according to traditional Bribri culture. In honor of his status in the community, his family is given four days to lay him to rest, and being reunited with Andres’s sister Tía Paloma, Ulá’s childhood friend Manuel, and her father’s house is a comfort. As they begin the ritual of accompanying his body until the burial, Ulá can’t shake the feeling that something isn’t what it seems and makes a discovery that opens the door to more sinister possibilities surrounding his death. Though they may be placing themselves in danger, the siblings begin to draw connections to his work to undermine the forces destroying the environment, finding themselves in a race against time and the same threats their father feared. This explosive, layered mystery exposes an all-too-true web of corporate profit happening in the shadows and the danger to those who fight to see environmental justice done. A packed but delicately crafted plot keeps the pages turning, and shifting perspectives are braided together smoothly. Alongside an atmospheric Costa Rican setting and Bribri cultural details, Tison explores the forces that govern sibling relationships across multiple generations, creating bonds that run deeper than disagreement. VERDICT An adrenaline rush-inducing must-read.–Allie Stevens
Go team @fsgyoungreaders@saracrowelit@gracekendallbooks@fiercereads
#togetherwesee #aritison
Hey babes! While I might on the territory rn, @BarnesandNoble is running a huge preorder sale! If you want to preorder TOGETHER WE SEE and get 25% off, join their free rewards program and use code PREORDER25 at checkout! #BNPreorder
“Little” series ✨✨✨Had to wait to jump on this with some news 🥰
Strange to be thanking God for all the hard times if it means that I get to be the girl I get to be today 🥹 She’s learning all the time, but she’s having fun, adoring, and HAS A FREAKING BOOK OUT IN JUNE 🫠 XOXO to all you, babes (who were once literal babes 🥹).
