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THE MEMORY THIEF de Lauren Mansy

A heart-pounding YA fantasy

THE MEMORY THIEF
by Lauren Mansy
     HarperCollins, October 2019

In the city of Craewick, talents are bought and sold, and memory reigns over everything. Madame, the power-obsessed ruler of the city, has cultivated a society in which memories are  currency, citizens are divided by ability, and Gifted individuals can take memories from others through touch as they please. Seventeen-year-old Etta Lark is desperate to live outside of the corrupt culture, but grapples with the guilt of an accident that has left her mother bedridden in the city’s asylum. When Madame  threatens to put her mother up for Auction, a Craewick tradition in which a “worthless” person’s memories are sold to the highest bidder before she is killed, Etta will do whatever it takes to save her. Even if it means rejoining the Shadows, the rebel group trading in the black market of memories, who she swore off in the wake of the  accident years earlier. To prove her allegiance to the Shadows and rescue her mother, Etta must pull off the greatest heist of her life – steal a memorized map of the Maze, a formidable prison created by the bloodthirsty ruler of a neighboring realm. So she sets out on a journey in which she faces startling attacks, unexpected romance, and, above all, her own past in order to set things right in her world.

Lauren Mansy has built a career from working with young people, and her debut novel has already attracted a devoted legion of fans

LONER de Georgina Young

An irresistible new voice alive to the choices and confusions of youth, and the messiness of learning how to adult

LONER
by Georgina Young
Text Publishing, 2020

LONER moves beyond the expected boundaries of young adult fiction. It is an intimate, comic novel about learning how to be, and how to not be, a person in this world. It is about finding and creating yourself—as many times as it takes. Lona spends her days developing photographs in the dark room of the art school she dropped out of. She spends her nights DJ-ing the roller disco at Planet Skate. She is in inexplicable, debilitating love with a bespectacled, Doctor Who-obsessed former classmate. She is in comfortable, platonic love with her best friend, Tabitha. When Lona’s grandfather moves into her home, she finds herself bonding with him as she watches his health decline. When she is promoted to manager of checkout three in her supermarket job, she argues for a demotion to trolley-girl. When she meets a bass-playing, cello-shredding, charming-as-all-hell suitor, she is thrown by somehow finding herself in a romantic relationship with another human being. Lona doesn’t know what she wants, but she knows what she doesn’t want—well, some of the time.

Georgina was born in 1995 and lives in Melbourne. She has been published in a number of anthologies and literary magazines..

NAT ENOUGH de Maria Scrivan

A hilarious new illustrated middle grade series about self-confidence and hidden talents

NAT ENOUGH
by Maria Scrivan
Scholastic / Graphix, 2020


In the spirit of The Dork Diaries and the work of Raina Telgemeier comes a hilarious new illustrated middle grade series about self-confidence and hidden talents.
Natalie has never felt that she’s enough—athletic enough, stylish enough, or talented enough. And on the first day of middle school, Natalie discovers that things are worse than she thought—now she’s not even cool enough for her best friend, Lily! As Natalie tries to get her best friend back, she learns more about her true self and natural talents. If Natalie can focus on who she is rather than who she isn’t, then she just might realize she’s more than enough, just the way she is. Written and illustrated in the form of Nat’s sketchbook, NAT ENOUGH is a story about the power of self-love and acceptance, told with warmth and humor.
Maria Scrivan’s cartoons have been published in magazines, newspapers, books, and on national television.

Sony Pictures a acquis les droits cinéma pour THE LAST HUMAN

Selon le site internet de Deadline, Sony aurait investi des millions de dollars afin de remporter les enchères pour les droits cinéma du roman de Lee Bacon qui sera publié en France par La Martinière Jeunesse. Le film d’animation hybride sera réalisé et produit par Phil Lord et Christopher Miller, duo célèbre pour des blockbusters tels que « Tempête de Boulettes Géantes », « La Grande Aventure Légo » et la série « The Last Man On Earth ».

Cristiano Ronaldo, super-héros d’une nouvelle série en BD!

Le footballeur le plus populaire au monde (plus de 500 000 maillots ont été vendus dans les 24 heures après l’annonce de son arrivée à la Juventus !) a établi un partenariat avec Graphic India, grand producteur de bandes dessinées et et d’animations, afin de lancer des nouveaux super-héros, STRIKER FORCE 7.

Trois volumes de la BD sont programmés d’ici fin 2020 et une adaptation animée est également prévue. Ces projets seront soutenus par le joueur, fan de super-héros, via ses réseaux sociaux.