Le scénariste LaDarian Smith travaillera avec les studios 3000 Pictures à l’adaptation du livre middle-grade pour le grand écran, en partenariat avec la société de production Homegrown Pictures. La date de sortie du film n’est pas encore connue. (Lire l’article de Deadline)
SIMON B. RHYMIN’ raconte avec humour et poésie l’histoire touchante d’un jeune rappeur qui parvient à rassembler les membres de sa communauté autour de ses rêves et ses rimes. Le livre évoque des sujets qui parlent à tous les enfants, comme l’importance des amis et de la famille, la nécessité de surmonter ses peurs, de résister à l’intimidation, et d’apprendre à se défendre.
Dwayne Reed, auteur du livre et professeur des écoles à Chicago, s’est d’abord fait connaître sur internet auprès du jeune public grâce à sa vidéo virale « Welcome to the 4th Grade ». Le scénariste LaDarian Smith a lui aussi été enseignant en lycée.
Les droits de langue française de SIMON B’ RHYMIN’ (Little, Brown BYR, mars 2021) et SIMON B. RHYMIN’ TAKES A STAND (avril 2022) sont toujours disponibles.
Navigating junior year, Michie is struggling to answer the question of who she is for her scholarship essays, the only chance she has at making it into Brown as a first-generation college student. Or maybe it’s not so much that Michie doesn’t know who she is as it is that she doesn’t like who she is: having been estranged from her mother from the age of five and surrendered to her grandmother, Michie has made an art of hiding, especially from herself. After all, if her own mother doesn’t think she’s worthy of love, who will?
James and Michelle find themselves in the Atlanta airport on a layover. They couldn’t be more different, but seemingly interminable delays draw them both to a mysterious flashing green light—and each other. 
The year is 3070, and Marie Antoinette has just arrived at Versailles. Marie is an App sensation, a style icon and a maven of social influence with millions of followers—but here, in the glamorous Franc Kingdom, her job is simply to marry Louis August. Unfortunately, Louis doesn’t seem interested in Marie, making her feel lonelier than ever in this new country. Luckily, Marie has a distraction: opulent soirées and decadent after-parties abound in Versailles.
It’s fourteen-year-old Gabe Sweeney’s day to check for survivors . . . Two years after a global pandemic, twenty survivors (most of them children) have relocated from their coastal Maine island full of sad memories to a mansion on a small, neighboring island where they have school and farm chores. When Gabe and his dog, Mud, find Relle Douglas alone in the woods on the mainland, they take the strange new girl across the channel to live with them. Relle changes the island with her hopeful attitude. She tells big stories and makes plans for activities like talent shows. Despite a growing crush, Gabe doesn’t quite understand the point of it all; why have a talent show at the end of the world? But when tragedy strikes, Gabe sets out on a dangerous journey to try and find other survivors where the world might be normal. Like Before.