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ABENI’S SONG de P. Djèlí Clark

The enchanting beginning of an epic West African and African Diaspora-inspired fantasy adventure for middle-grade readers about a reluctant apprentice to magic and the stolen villagers she sets out to save, by author P. Djèlí Clark, winner of the Nebula, Alex, Locus, and British Fantasy Awards.

ABENI’S SONG
by P. Djèlí Clark
Starscape/Tor, July 2023
(via The Gernert Company)

In darkness, a song can lead the way. Beware which one you listen to. On the day of the spirits festival, the old woman who lives in the forest appears in Abeni’s village with a terrible message: “You ignored my warnings. It’s too late to run. They are coming.”
The old woman hasn’t come to save them, only to collect one child as payment for her years of service and protection. When warriors with burning blades storm the village and a man with a cursed flute plays an impossibly alluring song, everyone Abeni has ever known and loved is captured and marched toward far-off ghost ships set for even more distant lands.
But not Abeni. Abeni escapes the warriors in the clutches of the old woman, magically whisked into the forest away from all she’s ever known. And there she begins her unwanted magical apprenticeship, her journey to escape the witch, and her impossible mission to bring her people home.
ABENI’S SONG is the beginning of a timeless, enchanting fantasy adventure about a reluctant apprentice, a team of spirit kids, and the village they set out to save from the evil Witch Priest who stole away Abeni’s people.

Born in New York and raised mostly in Houston, P. Djèlí Clark spent the formative years of his life in the homeland of his parents, Trinidad and Tobago. He is the author of the novel A Master of Djinn and the novellas Ring Shout, The Black God’s Drums, and The Haunting of Tram Car 015. He has won the Nebula, Locus, and Alex Awards and been nominated for the Hugo, World Fantasy, and Sturgeon Awards. His stories have appeared in online venues such as Tor.com, Daily Science Fiction, Heroic Fantasy Quarterly, Apex, Lightspeed, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and in print anthologies, including Griots, Hidden Youth, and Clockwork Cairo. He is also a founding member of FIYAH Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction and an infrequent reviewer at Strange Horizons.

Luca Guadagnino et Timothée Chalamet travailleront à nouveau ensemble pour l’adaptation de BONES & ALL de Camille DeAngelis

Mise à jour du16/4/2021 : droits cédés à Albin Michel Jeunesse

Une adaptation du roman de Camille DeAngelis sera réalisée prochainement pour le cinéma par l’Italien Luca Guadagnino, réalisateur de Call Me by Your Name sorti en 2017, dans lequel Timothée Chalamet incarnait un des personnages principaux. Le jeune acteur franco-américain sera de nouveau à l’affiche de Bones & All, sans doute aux côtés de Taylor Russell, pressentie pour le rôle principal féminin. Aucune date n’a été annoncée pour l’instant. (Lire l’article de Deadline)

Publié en 2015 chez St. Martin’s Press aux États-Unis, BONES & ALL raconte l’incroyable voyage d’une jeune fille au sombre secret pour retrouver son père qu’elle n’a jamais connu. Ce roman qui s’apparente au genre de l’horreur (la protagoniste est cannibale) explore également des thèmes plus profonds tels que la solitude, la famille, l’amitié et la féminité. Il s’adresse aussi bien aux adolescents qu’aux adultes.

THE ROBBER GIRL de Franny Billingsley

Part literary mystery, part magical tour de force, THE ROBBER GIRL is an incantatory novel of fierce beauty, lyricism, and originality.

THE ROBBER GIRL
by Franny Billingsley
Candlewick, September 2021

We matched each other, my dagger and I. The dagger was sharp, I was sharp. Together we were sharp, together we were wild.

A brilliant puzzle of a book from the author of Chime and The Folk Keeper plunges us into the vulnerable psyche of one of the most memorable unreliable narrators to grace the page in decades. The Robber Girl has a good dagger. Its voice in her head is as sharp as its two edges that taper down to a point. Today, the Robber Girl and her dagger will ride with Gentleman Jack into the Indigo Heart to claim the gold that’s rightfully his. But instead of gold, the Robber Girl finds a dollhouse cottage with doorknobs the size of apple seeds. She finds two dolls who give her three tasks, even though she knows that three is too many tasks. The right number of tasks is two, like Grandmother gave to Gentleman Jack: Fetch unto me the mountain’s gold, to build our city fair. Fetch unto me the wingless bird, and I shall make you my heir. The Robber Girl finds what might be a home, but to fight is easier than to trust when you’re a mystery even to yourself and you’re torn between loyalty and love. THE ROBBER GIRL is at once achingly real—wise to the nuances of trauma—and loaded with magic, action, and intrigue. Every sentence shines, sharp as a blade, in a beautifully crafted novel about memory, identity, and the power of language to heal and reconstruct our lives.

Franny Billingsley is the highly acclaimed author of three fantasy novels—National Book Award Finalist Chime, Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winner The Folk Keeper, and Well Wished. Utterly original, enchanting and compulsive, THE ROBBER GIRL is her most ambitious and powerful work to date.

THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM de Holly Goldberg Sloan

From the New York Times bestselling author of Counting by 7s comes a heartfelt middle-grade novel about « the importance of compassion and bravery when facing life’s challenges” (Kirkus) for fans of The One and Only Ivan and Front Desk.

THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM
by Holly Goldberg Sloan
Penguin US, March 2021

It’s been almost a year since Sila’s mother traveled halfway around the world to Turkey, hoping to secure the immigration paperwork that would allow her to return to her family in the U.S. The long separation is almost impossible for Sila to withstand. But things change when she accompanies her father (who is a mechanic) to fix a truck outside their Oregon town. There, behind an enormous stone wall, Sila meets a grandfatherly man who only months before won the lottery. Their new alliance leads to the rescue of a circus elephant named Veda, and then to a friendship with an unusual boy named Mateo, proving that comfort and hope come in the most unlikely of places. A moving story of family separation and the importance of the connection between animals and humans, this novel has the enormous heart and uplifting humor that readers have come to expect from the beloved author of Counting by 7s.

Holly Goldberg Sloan spent part of her childhood living in Istanbul, Turkey. After graduating from Wellesley College in Massachusetts, she worked in commercial production in Los Angeles and in her twenties began writing family feature films, including Angels in the Outfield and Made In America. She was the first woman to direct a live action film for the Walt Disney Company when she directed (and wrote) The Big Green. She is the author of six previous novels, including the E.B. White Read-Aloud Honor Winner Counting by 7s, the New York Times Bestseller Short, and the highly praised To Night Owl from Dogfish (which she co-wrote with author Meg Wolitzer). The mother of two sons, she and her husband, Gary Rosen, live in Los Angeles.

Les romans YA de Jenna Evans Welch bientôt adaptés par Netflix

Netflix vient d’acquérir les droits audiovisuels des trois romans de Jenna Evans Welch publiés chez Simon Pulse aux États-Unis : LOVE & GELATO, LOVE & LUCK et LOVE & OLIVES, tous les trois des New York Times Bestsellers. C’est le scénariste et producteur Brandon Camp (Coup de foudre à Seattle, 2009 ; Benji, 2018) qui écrira, réalisera et produira les trois adaptations. Aucune date n’a été annoncée pour l’instant.

Le dernier roman de l’autrice, LOVE & OLIVES, paru en novembre 2020, est un standalone inspiré de la comédie musicale Mamma Mia ! dans lequel une jeune Américaine d’origine grecque, Liv Varanakis, va retrouver à Santorin son père absent qu’elle n’a pas vu depuis des années pour l’aider dans ses recherches sur la cité disparue d’Atlantis. C’est là-bas, dans la librairie de son père, qu’elle fait la rencontre de son assistant Theo…

Jenna Evans Welch publiera prochainement d’autres titres YA chez Simon Pulse.

Les droits de LOVE & OLIVES sont toujours disponibles.