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Review of Your Turn Marisol Rainey

Your Turn Marisol Rainey by Erin Entrada Kelly; illus. by the authorPrimary, Intermediate    Greenwillow    160 pp.8/25    9780063337213    $18.99On the last day of spring vacation, Marisol and her best friend, Jada, decide that they will adopt “new and improved” personalities. To satisfy their plan, Marisol, usually quiet and reserved, vows to...
      

Review of At Last She Stood: How Joey Guerrero Spied, Survived, and Fought for Freedom

At Last She Stood: How Joey Guerrero Spied, Survived, and Fought for Freedom by Erin Entrada Kelly Intermediate, Middle School    Greenwillow    208 pp. 5/25    9780063218901    $19.99 e-book ed.  9780063218925    $9.99 When Josefina Veluya Guerrero (1917–1996), known as Joey, was a little girl in the town of Lucban in the Philippine...
      
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Review of The Last Resort

The Last Resort by Erin Entrada Kelly; illus. by Naomi FranquizIntermediate, Middle School    Scholastic    240 pp.9/25    9781546132431    $17.99e-book ed.  9781546132455    $17.99In this supernatural murder mystery, the versatile Kelly (2025 Newbery medalist for The First State of Being, rev. 5/24) skillfully balances otherworldly horrors with more realistic middle-school angst. Eleven-year-old Lila...
      

Profile of 2025 Newbery Medal winner Erin Entrada Kelly

Erin and Sharon at the 2021 launch of Maybe Maybe Marisol Rainey at Hockessin BookShelf in Delaware. Photo courtesy of Sharon Huss Roat. Looking back on 2024, two-time Newbery Medalist Erin Entrada Kelly will tell you it was the worst year of her life. She spent most of it undergoing...
      

ALA Annual 2025

The last time I’d been to Philadelphia was for the American Library Association Midwinter Conference. It was January 2020, just-pre-pandemic crisis in the U.S., and turned out to be the last Midwinter conference in that form. This year’s ALA Annual Conference in Philly had its share of remembering and reminiscing but...
      

2025 Newbery Medal Acceptance by Erin Entrada Kelly

Photo courtesy of Erin Entrada Kelly. I’ll start with thank-yous. I’d like to thank the ALA and ALSC, especially the Newbery committee and its chair, Maeve Visser Knoth. I’d like to thank my editor, Virginia Duncan, and the entire team at Greenwillow Books and HarperCollins, including art director Sylvie Le...
      

Publishers' Preview: Diverse Books: Five Questions for Erin Entrada Kelly

This interview originally appeared in the May/June 2025 Horn Book Magazine as part of the Publishers’ Previews: Diverse Books, an advertising supplement that allows participating publishers a chance to each highlight a book from its current list. They choose the books; we ask the questions. Sponsored by In At Last She Stood: How...
      
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Review of On Again, Awkward Again

On Again, Awkward Again by Erin Entrada Kelly and Kwame MbaliaHigh School    Amulet/Abrams    272 pp.4/25    9781419775635    $19.99e-book ed.  9798887073392    $17.99A clumsy accident and an IBS incident lead to an unlikely meet-cute between Pacy Mercado and Cecil Holloway, two high school freshmen whose quirks make them stand out. Immediately, sparks fly,...
      

Reviews of the 2025 Newbery Medal Winners

Winner The First State of Being by Erin Entrada Kelly Intermediate, Middle School    Greenwillow    272 pp. 3/24    9780063337312    $19.99 e-book ed.  9780063337336    $9.99 It’s the summer of 1999. Twelve-year-old Delawarean Michael has worries, chief among them the approach of Y2K. What if everything falls apart? Family finances are precarious, so...
      
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Review of The First State of Being

The First State of Being by Erin Entrada KellyIntermediate, Middle School    Greenwillow    272 pp.3/24    9780063337312    $19.99e-book ed.  9780063337336    $9.99It’s the summer of 1999. Twelve-year-old Delawarean Michael has worries, chief among them the approach of Y2K. What if everything falls apart? Family finances are precarious, so he’s amassing a stash of...
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