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This was a BIIIIIIG week for new books, including amazing titles for teens! Check out some of our bookseller and Teen Press Corps favorites below! Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam "PUNCHING THE AIR is beautifully and impactfully told, scene by scene and poem by poem revealing the present and past, hopes … Continue reading Teen Thursday: Hello, September New Releases!
This was originally published in the Teen Press Corps' blog: bookpeopleteens.wordpress.com The Teen Press Corps recently got together to talk BOOKS (as we do), going over what stories captured our hearts in 2019 and what we’re dying to get our hands on in 2020, like Infinity Son and Sword in the Stars! Here are a bunch of our … Continue reading Teen Thursday: The TPC’S 2019 Favorites!
A few of the amazing things we're looking forward to at Texas Book Festival! It's finally here!!!! We're ready for a weekend packed with all things BOOKS! We're continuing the TTBF celebration with more YA goodness at Texas Book Festival. Join us in downtown Austin for the ultimate book lover's dream fest... here are just … Continue reading Teen Thursday: We can’t wait for Texas Book Festival…
Teen Press Corps member Ivy is a HUGE Adventure Zone fan, and he got to interview Griffin McElroy at his last BookPeople event! We thought we'd bring this back for a little #ThrowbackThursday in honor of the BUNCH of signed copies we have of the second Adventure Zone book, Murder on the Rockport, which you … Continue reading Teen Thursday: Interview with Griffin McElroy
TONIGHT Christopher Paolini 7 PM at Austin Central Library Speaking about and Signing The Fork, the Witch, and the Worm NEW TEEN FICTION Mike by Andrew Norriss Mike is the imaginary friend and projection of a repressed wish that won't go away until Floyd confronts both his greatest fear and greatest … Continue reading Teen Thursday
UPCOMING EVENT The Great Unknowable End by Kathryn Ormsbee From the author of Tash Hearts Tolstoy comes a funny, moving novel about the lengths we’ll go to make dreams our dreams come true that’s perfect for fans of Shaun David Hutchinson and Rainbow Rowell. Slater, Kansas, is a small town where not much seems to … Continue reading Teen Thursday
TOMORROW NIGHT! IT'S FINALLY TIME!!!! ANGIE THOMAS WILL BE AT FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH TOMORROW NIGHT AT 7 PM! DON'T MISS HER! AND DON'T FORGET TO SNAG YOUR COPY OF ON THE COME UP NOW! NEW TEEN FANTASY Bloodwitch by Susan Dennard Susan Dennard's New York Times bestselling, young adult epic fantasy Witchlands series continues … Continue reading Teen Thursday: On The Come Up!
IT'S ALMOST ANGIE THOMAS TIME!!!! BUT YOU CAN PICK UP COPIES OF ON THE COME UP NOW! On The Come Up by Angie Thomas This is the highly anticipated second novel by Angie Thomas, the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling, award-winning The Hate U Give. Sixteen-year-old Bri wants to be one … Continue reading Teen Thursday
NEW FROM THE GRISHAVERSE King of Scars by Leigh Bardugo Enter the Grishaverse with this new novel from #1 New York Times-bestselling author Leigh Bardugo. Face your demons...or feed them. Nikolai Lantsov has always had a gift for the impossible. No one knows what he endured in his country’s bloody civil war—and he intends … Continue reading Teen Thursday
WHAT'S HAPPENING AT BOOKPEOPLE Patrick Ness January 30 at 7 pm COMING IN FEBRUARY Angie Thomas February 15 at 7 PM at First Baptist Church Kathryn Ormsbee February 27 at 7 PM Christopher Paolini February 28 at 7 PM at Central Public Library NEW TEEN FICTION The Birds, The … Continue reading Teen Thursday
