Tag: Young Adult
Watch our Winter 2026 School & Library Virtual Preview!
Watch our Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group Winter 2026 Preview Event, where we previewed upcoming picture books, middle grade, young adult, and adult titles! Stay tuned for our live special guests: author Petra Lord is in conversation about her young adult fantasy debut, Queen of Faces, and bestselling author Adib Khorram introduces his next memorable novel One Word, Six Letters.
Guest appearances from talented creators Matt Phelan (Bartleby), Victoria Chang (Eureka), and Elle Grenier (This Wretched Beauty: A Dorian Gray Remix).
Timestamps:
3:16 – Petra Lord Queen of Faces in conversation with Executive Editor at Henry Holt Books for Young Readers, Brian Geffen
13:42 – Picture Books
18:12 – Matt Phelan Bartleby
25:10 – Middle Grade
25:33 – Victoria Chang Eureka
37:40 – Young Adult
40:07 – Elle Grenier This Wretched Beauty: A Dorian Gray Remix
48:10 – Adib Khorram One Word, Six Letter
Teacher’s Guide: Sisters in the Wind by Angeline Boulley
Thrilling and Chilling Reads for Halloween & Beyond!!
Looking for books that will send a chill down your spine? Or a sweet Halloween treat for young readers? Whatever floats your ghost, this book list will get readers in the Halloween spirit!
Discover more spell-binding stories →State Awards
Browse a catalog of our state award winners and nominees for 2024-2025 and 2025-2026 and add these books to your TBR! Highlights include:
- The Lost Year: A Survival Story of the Ukrainian Famine by Katherine Marsh
- Dogtown by Katherine Applegate and Gennifer Choldenko; illustrated by Wallace West
- Promise Boys by Nick Brooks
- Jumper: A Day in the Life of a Backyard Jumping Spider by Jessica Lanan
- Frizzy by Claribel A. Ortega; illustrated by Rose Bousamra
- Lunar New Year Love Story by Gene Luen Yang; illustrated by LeUyen Pham
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An Educator’s Guide to the Novels of Amber McBride
“Amber McBride’s stories will captivate the heart, mind, and spirit. If you are a careful reader, you will find that all of her works are connected, with small Easter eggs hidden in the pages of each title, giving glimpses of what you’ll discover when you read them all…Told through carefully constructed poetry and prose, McBride’s works, though written for young readers, explore themes that are relevant to readers of every age.” —Julia E. Torres (Reader/Teacher)
Explore themes of identity and empowerment, community, spirituality, romantic love, and more through the middle grade and young adult stories by an award-winning author. While many conversations around these topics can be heavy, Amber’s work creates an accessible place for young readers to feel, explore, and take away messages of hope and perseverance. Click below to download the comprehensive Educator’s Guide to access the full list of resources for every one of Amber’s books.
dOWNLOAD THE EDUCATOR’S GUIDE hERE →Teacher’s Guide: The Experiment by Rebecca Stead
Discover Books for National Bullying Prevention Month
October is National Bullying Prevention Month. Looking for suggestions for titles that encourage kindness, empathy, and understanding in your classroom or library? Read on for a list of titles for every age reader, plus spotlights on Weirdo written by Tony Weaver, Jr. and illustrated by Jes & Cin Wibowo, and Accountable: The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed by Dashka Slater.
DISCOVER BOOKS TO SHARE FOR NATIONAL BULLYING PREVENTION MONTH –Teacher’s Guide: King: A Life (Young Adult Edition) by Jonathan Eig; adapted for young adults by Yohuru Williams and Michael G. Long
King: A Life (Young Adult Edition)
By Jonathan Eig; adapted for young adults by Yohuru Williams and Michael G. Long
Ages 12-18
On Sale: January 7, 2025
Hailed as “the most compelling account of [Martin Luther] King’s life in a generation” by the Washington Post, the Pulitzer Prize–winning bestseller is now adapted for young adults in this new standard biography of the most famous civil rights activist in American History.
Often regarded as more of a myth and legend than man, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was many things throughout his storied life: student, activist, preacher, dreamer, father, husband. From his Atlanta childhood centered in the historically Black neighborhood of Sweet Auburn to his precipitous rise as a civil rights leader on the streets of Birmingham, Selma, and Montgomery, Dr. King would go on to become one of the most recognizable, influential, and controversial persons of the twentieth century.
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Emma Goldman vs. America (A Love Story)
By Deborah Heiligman
Ages 14-18
On Sale: September 16, 2025
Both a love letter to America and a stirring rallying cry for the country to live up to the ideals on which it was founded, this propulsive biography from National Book Award Finalist and “nonfiction maestro (Horn Book)” Deborah Heiligman chronicles the extraordinary life and work of groundbreaking political activist Emma Goldman.
Emma Goldman made trouble her whole life. The first time was by accident. Her birth (in Lithuania, in 1869) angered her father. He had wanted a dutiful son, not a headstrong daughter. The other times were on purpose.
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