Young readers' editor Laura Simeon recommends WANDER IN THE DARK by Jumata Emill on this week's Fully Booked podcast 🎧 ow.ly/ROXo50QuZKL @delacortepress

Young readers' editor Laura Simeon recommends DUNGEONS AND DRAMA by Kristy Boyce on this week's Fully Booked 🎧 ow.ly/z3Gf50QvTko @delacortepress

Young readers' editor Laura Simeon recommends BLESS THE BLOOD (⭐️) by Walela Nehanda on this week's Fully Booked podcast 🎧 ow.ly/U3ja50Qzp1v @Kokilabooks

Young readers' editor Laura Simeon recommends NOT QUITE A GHOST by Anne Ursu on this week's Fully Booked podcast 🎧 ow.ly/58XX50Qoays @waldenpondpress

Young readers' editor Laura Simeon recommends ALL THAT IT EVER MEANT (⭐️) by Blessing Musariri on the Fully Booked Holiday Gift Guide 🎁📚🎧 ow.ly/2yPx50Q6H2i @nyrbooks

Young readers' editor Laura Simeon recommends THE BLACKWOODS (⭐️) by Brandy Colbert on this week's Fully Booked podcast ◆ ow.ly/5O3p50PRj7H @balzerandbray

La Bastarda, by Trifonia Melibea Obono, was the first book by an Equitorial Guinean woman tr. into English.

Translated by Lawrence Schimel, La Bastarda was a 2019 #GLLITranslatedYABookPrize Honor title.

An excerpt:

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#EquatoguineanYALit #IntlYALit 🧵

One of three Honor Titles chosen in 2019 was Wonderful Feels Like This, by Sara Lövestam, tr. by Laura A. Wideburg, & pub. by Flatiron Books.

It’s a tale of warmth and kindness, about identity & finding one’s voice. Our review:

glli-us.org/2021/03/03/wor…

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Young readers' editor Laura Simeon recommends FROM HERE (⭐️) by Luma Mufleh on this week's Fully Booked podcast 🎧 ow.ly/e7IX50PGyWs Penguin Teen

Our new magazine is HERE! 💃
An original illustration will be featured on every new cover of ‘Kirkus Reviews,’ beginning with this drawing of James McBride by Eric Scott Anderson 🙌
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It's #WorldKidLitMonth !

We're celebrating five years of the GlobalLiteratureinLibrariesInitiative Translated Young Adult Book Prize this year!

Join us for our month-long celebration as we look back at our winners, honor titles, & shortlist titles.

#GLLI #ActLocallyReadGlobally 🧵

Presenting the 2023 Kirkus Prize finalists! 🏆
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Congratulations to these authors, illustrators, and translators on their outstanding books ⬇️
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#KirkusReviews #BookAwards #LiteraryAwards

Watch this space, book lovers. Tomorrow at 10 a.m. ET we announce the 18 finalists for this year’s Kirkus Prizes in fiction, nonfiction, and young readers’ literature.

The literary awards season has officially begun!

#KirkusReviews #BookAwards #LiteraryAwards

Young readers’ editor Laura Simeon recommends ACTUALLY SUPER by Adi Alsaid on this week's Fully Booked podcast 🎧 ow.ly/Xi3e50PCZcl Knopf BFYR

Young readers’ editor Laura Simeon recommends SAVI AND THE MEMORY KEEPER by Bijal Vachharajani, illus. by Rajiv Eipe, on this week's 🚨Fully Booked Takeover🚨 🎧 ow.ly/QZgX50PAlYr Blackstone Publishing

Please come to our free panel at Seattle's National Nordic Museum on Sept. 9: We'll be discussing what makes Nordic kid lit so special and how to promote it, sharing recent titles, and more!

FYI UW Translation Studies Hub! #ScandinavianLit #NordicLit #translation #translated #GlobalLit #WorldLit

'This is a stirring, lived-in novel of struggles both personal and societal.'

Read the full starred review from Kirkus Reviews about “Crooked Plow” (Itamar Vieira Junior, tr. Johnny Lorenz, Verso Books): kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/i…

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Young readers' editor Laura Simeon recommends I'LL TELL YOU NO LIES by @amandamccrina on this week's Fully Booked podcast 🎧 ow.ly/MOp650PpTJ0 Fierce Reads

Know a teen headed back to school this month? Laura Simeon says these YA titles will help ease the way. ow.ly/kk9q50Pqufw First Second Quill Tree Books Simon Teen Sourcebooksfire Wednesday Books @BalzerandBray Feiwel and Friends Candlewick Press Flatiron Books #BackToSchool #YABooks