Orca introduces new Ultra-Readable books to reach more readers
Orca Book Publishers is introducing a new Ultra-Readable format for their bestselling lines of high interest, low reading level (hi-lo) books aimed at striving readers.
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12 Days of Christmas: Gift guides for everyone!
Are you still looking for the perfect presents to give to any young book lovers in your life? Catch up on all our themed recommendations!
Author Feature: Laura Langston
#TuesdayTalk with Laura Langston. Her new novel, Stepping Out, is on shelves now! Tell us about your book. Fifteen-year-old Paige Larsson loves to laugh. She likes it even more when others laugh with her. As a YouTube comedy vlogger, laughter is Paige’s currency in life. It eases the pain of …
Author Feature: Darren Groth
#TuesdayTalk with Darren Groth. Darren Groth’s YA novel, Are You Seeing Me? launches this month. Darren, what inspired you to write Perry and Justine’s story? Anyone who’s spent any time with me knows I am Dad to a set of twins: one girl, one boy. My daughter is ‘neurotypical’, which …
Fiction and Neuroscience – Guest post by author Trina St. Jean
“I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix.” Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes in The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone, 1921) Everywhere you turn these days, fictional characters in both adult and young adult novels are dealing with brain trouble. Maybe they’ve had their brains altered …
Author Feature: Alison Hughes
#TuesdayTalk with Alison Hughes. Alison’s new middle reader, Lost in the Backyard, launches this April. Alison, what do you look for in a good book? I love a good mystery, but I have to say that it’s wonderful, realistic characters that float my boat. When did you first know you …