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FABLE FOR THE END OF THE WORLD d’Ava Reid

The Last of Us meets The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes in this dystopian romance about survival, sacrifice, and love that risks everything.

FABLE FOR THE END OF THE WORLD
by Ava Reid
HarperTeen, March 2025
(via Sterling Lord Literistic)

By encouraging massive accumulations of debt from its underclass, a single corporation, Caerus, controls all aspects of society.

Inesa lives with her brother in a half-sunken town where they scrape by running a taxidermy shop. Unbeknownst to Inesa, their cruel and indolent mother has accrued an enormous debt—enough to qualify one of her children for Caerus’s livestreamed assassination spectacle: the Lamb’s Gauntlet.

Melinoë is a Caerus assassin, trained to track and kill the sacrificial Lambs. The product of neural reconditioning and physiological alteration, she is a living weapon, known for her cold brutality and deadly beauty. She has never failed to assassinate one of her marks.

When Inesa learns that her mother has offered her as a sacrifice, at first she despairs—the Gauntlet is always a bloodbath for the impoverished debtors. But she’s had years of practice surviving in the apocalyptic wastes, and with the help of her hunter brother, she might stand a chance of staying alive.

For Melinoë, this is a game she can’t afford to lose. Despite her reputation for mercilessness, she is haunted by painful flashbacks. After her last Gauntlet, where she broke down on livestream, she desperately needs redemption.

As Mel pursues Inesa across the wasteland, both girls begin to question everything: Inesa wonders if there’s more to life than survival, while Mel wonders if she’s capable of more than killing.

And both wonder if, against all odds, they might be falling in love.

Ava Reid was born in Manhattan and raised right across the Hudson River in Hoboken but currently lives in Palo Alto. She has a degree in political science from Barnard College, focusing on religion and ethnonationalism.

Manon Steffan Ros lauréate de la première édition des prix de l’Entente Littéraire

Organisé par la Royal Society of Literature et l’Institut français du Royaume-Uni à Londres, en collaboration avec le ministère de la Culture en France et le Department for Culture, Media and Sport au Royaume-Uni, l’Ambassade de France au Royaume-Uni et l’Ambassade du Royaume-Uni en France, le prix de l’Entente Littéraire a été remis à Londres mercredi 4 décembre lors d’une cérémonie à la Résidence de France à laquelle ont assisté la reine Camilla et Brigitte Macron.

Ce prix a pour but de « célébrer les plaisirs de la lecture et le partage d’expériences littéraires entre la France et le Royaume-Uni. Créé lors du sommet franco-britannique en mars 2023 par le Président Emmanuel Macron et le Premier Ministre britannique Rishi Sunak, il est organisé par l’Institut français du Royaume-Uni et la Royal Society of Literature dans le cadre du 120e anniversaire de l’Entente Cordiale. »

Parmi les six titres en lice, deux récompenses de 8 000 € ont été décernées pour distinguer la meilleure publication traduite d’un ouvrage de littérature jeunesse dans chacun des deux pays. Manon Steffan Ros et la traductrice Lise Garond ont été récompensées pour LE LIVRE BLEU DE NEBO, aux côtés de Lucie Bryon pour Thieves.

Pour cette première édition, le jury se composait de Marie-Aude Murail, Thimothée de Fombelle, Patrice Lawrence et Joseph Coelho.

LE LIVRE BLEU DE NEBO (Actes Sud Jeunesse) de Manon Steffan Ros, traduit par Lise Garond, est un « journal intime bouleversant où se mêlent les voix d’une mère et de son fils ayant fait l’expérience d’une étrange fin du monde. » L’adolescent cherche dans les livres des traces du passé. Manon Steffan Ros a travaillé en tant qu’actrice avant de devenir écrivaine jeunesse et adulte. Elle a remporté le prix du livre du Pays de Galles de l’année pour ses romans de fiction pour adultes en plus d’être quatre fois lauréate du prix gallois de littérature jeunesse Tir na N’Og. Avec LE LIVRE BLEU DE NEBO, Manon a remporté la médaille Yoto Carnegie de l’écriture.

HERE IS A BOOK d’Elisha Cooper

A love letter to books, showing how many elements and people contribute to making something beautiful, from Caldecott honoree Elisha Cooper.

HERE IS A BOOK
by Elisha Cooper
Abrams Books for Young Readers, April 2025

In this poetic and beautifully illustrated ode to creativity and the process of making books, Caldecott honoree Elisha Cooper takes readers on a journey showing how words and art move from one person to another.

From writer to reader, and everyone who contributes in between: Here is a book, made with love. An artist’s studio overflows with sketches, drafts, a wastebasket, and wonder. A publisher’s office hums with computers, layouts, coffee, and teamwork. A printer makes a layout into a book using presses, ink, paper, and time. And that book travels to a school, to a library, to a student, to a home.

Elisha Cooper is the award-winning author of many books for young readers including Train, Farm, Beach, 8: An Animal Alphabet, and Dance!, a New York Times Best Illustrated Book. He lives with his family and two cats in New York City.

A MONSTROUS BEDTIME de Kerilynn Wilson

A girl’s bedtime routine with her parents is set—one glass of water, one fan whirring gently, one song, and one book—but when the monster living under her bed can’t fall asleep, the girl creates a whole new nighttime checklist.

A MONSTROUS BEDTIME
by Kerilynn Wilson
Harper/Greenwillow, August 2025
(via Writers House)

Every bedtime needs a routine. That’s the best way to get a good night’s sleep. But what if it doesn’t work for the monster under your bed? How do you help it fall asleep? Join one little girl determined to help her monster with a special—monster-sized!—version of her nightly ritual.

A deceptively simple text skilfully captures the comfort young children take in routine, while colourful artwork—full of subtle detail—subverts our expectations, turning the monster into a friend and co-conspirator. Kerilynn Wilson’s imaginative take on evergreen themes makes A Monstrous Bedtime a must-have for every bedtime. For fans of Good Night, Gorilla and Sleep Like a Tiger.

Kerilynn Wilson is an author-illustrator with a love of the weird and wonderful. She is the creator of the acclaimed picture book One Foggy Christmas Eve and the award-winning graphic novel for teens The Faint of Heart. She lives in Oregon City, Oregon, but her mind tends to wander to made-up places in her head filled with flying jellyfish and birds that eat the stars.

Firelight Trilogy de Sophie Jordan

Repackaged with a new look, Firelight is an addictive contemporary romantasy trilogy about a teen girl descended from dragons, and a dangerous romance with a boy whose family hunts her kind. Perfect for fans of Rebecca Yarros, Jennifer Armentrout, and Tahereh Mafi.

FIRELIGHT, VANISH, and HIDDEN
by Sophie Jordan
HarperCollins Children’s Books, August 2024

Book 1: FIRELIGHT

With her rare ability to breathe fire, Jacinda is special even among the draki—the descendants of dragons who can shift between human and dragon forms.

But when Jacinda’s rebelliousness forces her family to flee into the human world, she struggles to adapt, even as her draki spirit fades. The one thing that revives it is the gorgeous, elusive Will–who comes from a long line of dragon hunters. Jacinda can’t resist getting closer to him, even though she knows she’s risking not only her life but the draki’s most closely guarded secret.

The steam rises with this fire-breathing romance about a girl whose love crosses an ancient divide, from New York Times bestselling author Sophie Jordan.

Book 2: VANISH

To save Will, the boy she loves, Jacinda did the unthinkable: She revealed herself as a draki to hunters.

Now her family must return to the safety of the pride to survive. But her fellow draki no longer trust Jacinda, so her sister, Tamra, and their prince, Cassian, are among the few who will even talk to her.

Separated from the boy she loves, Jacinda longs for Will to keep his promise and come find her…even though she knows it is not only unlikely, it is dangerous. When, against all odds, he does track her down, Will’s reappearance sets in motion a deadly chain of events that nobody can stop.

In New York Times bestselling author Sophie Jordan’s dramatic follow-up to FIRELIGHT, forbidden love burns brighter than ever.

Book 3: HIDDEN

The epic conclusion to the addictive, romantic Firelight trilogy.

In the climactic finale to the steamy Firelight trilogy, Jacinda must fight to save her life, her love, and all of her kind.

If Jacinda were to follow the wishes of her community, she’d happily settle down with Cassian, the prince of her pride. But she just can’t. She’s in love with Will, a human boy who comes from a family of hunters.

Their relationship breaks the most sacred rule and endangers everyone she cares about. Now Jacinda, Will, and Cassian fight back against the hunters and their shadowy allies who would destroy them all. . . .

Sophie Jordan grew up on a pecan farm in the Texas hill country, where she wove fantasies of dragons, warriors, and princesses. A former high school English teacher, she’s also the New York Times bestselling author of Avon historical romances. She now lives in Houston with her family. When she’s not writing, she spends her time overloading on caffeine (lattes and Diet cherry Coke preferred), talking plotlines with anyone who will listen (including her kids), and cramming her DVR with true-crime and reality-TV shows. Sophie also writes paranormal romances under the name Sharie Kohler.