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Lauren Myracle's novel Shine was nominated as a National Book Award nominee.Then she wasn't. Then she was. Wednesday, Myracle withdrew her name from the finalists for the 2011 National Book Awards for Young People's Literature. The National Book Foundation claimed Shine became a finalist by mistake.

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• Vanity Fair interview Lauren Myracle about the mixup
• Myracle wrote a post, How I Was Un-nominated For The National Book Award, at the Huffington Post.

Dutton Children's Books acquired rights to two new novels, Just One Day and Just One Year, by Gayle Forman, author of If I Stay and Where She Went. "Forman asks two questions in these companion books: the first probes whether two people can fall in love in a single day, and the second asks whether someone can become a new person over the course of a single year" (publishersweekly.com). Just One Day scheduled for spring 2013, and Just One Year is scheduled for spring 2014.


New Covers

What She Left Behind by Tracy Bilen

*2012 by Simon Pulse*

Innocent Darkness by Suzanne Lazear

*August 8, 2012 by Flux*

Revived by Cat Patrick

*May 8, 2012 by Little Brown*

Immortal City by Scott Speer

*April 2012 by Razorbill*

Darkness Falls by Cate Tiernan (Immortal Beloved #2)

*January 2, 2012 by Little Brown*

Flirting in Italian by Lauren Henderson

*June 12, 2012 by Delacorte*
Keep Holding On by Susan Colasanti
*June 14, 2012 by Viking Juvenile*

Book Trailers

Legend by Marie Lu (Nov 29, 2011)




The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson



The Faerie Ring by Kiki Hamilton




Fateful by Claudia Gray



A Beautiful Dark by Jocelyn Davies



Eve by Anna Carey



Cold Kiss by Amy Garvey