Marvelous Middle-Grade Books 8/25/15

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1 Thank you for joining us today. Marvelous Middle-Grade Books will begin at 1 p.m. CDT. Until then, enjoy the silence! Today s panelists: Marvelous Middle-Grade Books Tuesday, August 25 1 p.m. CDT Beth Oleniczak Marketing Specialist Lisa DiSarro Director of School & Library Marketing Mary Cash Editor-in-Chief Kelly Loughman Editor Ilise Levine Sales & Marketing Tyler Whitesides J. Scott Savage Valerie Garfield Vice President Ilene Cooper Booklist Senior Editor, Books for Tweeting? Today s panelists: Download a list of the titles featured in today s presentation at Beth Oleniczak Marketing Specialist Mary Cash Editor-in-Chief Kelly Loughman Editor Valerie Garfield Vice President bit.ly/marvelousmg Lisa DiSarro Director of School & Library Marketing Ilise Levine Sales & Marketing J. Scott Savage Tyler Whitesides Tweeting? Beth Oleniczak Marketing Specialist 1

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8 Valerie Garfield Vice President Continuing Favorites for Younger Readers New and Continuing Middle Grade Series On Sale On Sale Ages: Titles Currently Available On Sale On Sale Ages: Titles Currently Available IntheMiddleBooks.com Continuing Favorites for Younger Readers Continuing Favorites for Younger Readers On Sale On Sale On Sale On Sale Ages: Titles Currently Available Ages: Titles Currently Available Ages: Titles Currently Available Ages: Titles Currently Available 8

9 Just Launched for Younger Readers Just Launched for Younger Readers On Sale On Sale On Sale Ages Titles Currently Available Ages Titles Currently Available Upcoming for Younger Readers Upcoming for Younger Readers Launching January 2016! On Sale Ages: 5-9 Launching April 2016! On Sale Ages: 5-9 Continuing Favorites for Middle Grade Continuing Favorites for Middle Grade On Sale On Sale Ages: Titles Currently Available On Sale Ages: Titles Currently Available On Sale Ages: Titles Currently Available Ages: Titles Currently Available 9

10 Just Launched for Middle Grade In the Middle Books Visit IntheMiddleBooks.com for info on all of Simon & Schuster s middle grade series, including old favorites and new releases. Plus, download activities, watch videos and more! On Sale Ages: Titles Currently Available On Sale IntheMiddleBooks.com Keep in touch with Simon & Schuster Education & Library Marketing! Visit SimonandSchuster.net for educators & librarians and sign up for our monthly Librarian e-newsletter. Lisa DiSarro Director of School & Library Marketing Become a Fan on Facebook! Follow us on Follow us on Pinterest! FREE Middle Grade Series Library! us at education.library@simonandschuster.com for your chance to win a free library featuring the first book in every series featured today! Please be sure to include your complete library mailing address and the subject line Middle Grade Series." Fall 2015 Each season, HMH Books for Young Readers selects books from their list that are especially appropriate for middle grade readers and highlights them in a special campaign for parents, teachers, and booksellers called Middle Grade Mania. There s something for every kid among the titles in HMH s fall 2015 Middle Grade Mania selections exciting mysteries, thought-provoking science fiction, and funny adventure stories. 10

11 Took By Mary Downing Hahn $16.99 Pub Date: 09/15/2015 "Horror fans and readers looking for a good scare will enjoy this creepy tale. School Library Journal "Satisfyingly frightening." Publishers Weekly Milo Speck, Accidental Agent By Linda Urban $16.99 Ages 7 to 10 Grades 2 to 5 Pub Date: 09/01/2015 "Clever humor and daring rescues will keep readers glued to Milo's adventures and hoping for future ones. Publishers Weekly "Humor and action abound in this fastpaced adventure with plenty of twists and turns...an entertaining choice." School Library Journal Hoodoo By Ronald L. Smith $16.99 Pub Date: 09/01/2015 Seekers of the scary and something different need look no further." Kirkus Reviews A riveting story with a dollop of southern gothic appeal. Booklist The Case of the Phantom Cat By Holly Webb $15.99 Ages 7 to 10 Grades 2 to 5 Pub Date: 09/15/2015 The third installment in the Mysteries of Maisie Hitchins series is the spookiest one yet! Battle of the Bots By C.J. Richards $13.99 Ages 7 to 10 Grades 2 to 5 Pub Date: 11/03/2015 Best friends George Gearing and Jackbot continue their adventures in book three of the Robots Rule series. I m an Alien and I Want to Go Home By Jo Franklin $16.99 Pub Date: 11/01/2015 Borrowed Time By Greg Leitich Smith $16.99 Pub Date: 11/10/2015 A time-travel thrill ride through the Cretaceous Era and a fast-paced companion tochronalengine. The Last Bogler By Catherine Jinks $16.99 Pub Date: 01/05/2016 There is much to enjoy in this excellent adventure series. School Library Journal Daniel is picked on by teachers, and doesn t look like anyone else in his family. He figures he must be an alien and forms a mission team with his two friends to get himself back to his home planet with funny (and near-disastrous) results. 11

12 Lizzie and the Lost Baby By Cheryl Blackford $16.99 Pub Date: 01/12/2016 When Mischief Came to Town By Katrina Nannestad $16.99 Pub Date: 01/05/2016 It s impossible not to be smitten with Lizzie, who not only finds a lost baby, but courage, friendship, justice, and a way forward in her new life." Margi Preus, New York Times bestselling author and Newbery Honor winner of Heart of a Samurai When 10-year-old Inge comes to live with her grandmother, she brings joy and laughter into her grandmother's life, and ends up changing the climate of the town and finding a new family. The Rosemary Spell By Virginia Zimmerman $16.99 Pub Date: 12/01/2015 The Girl Who Could Not Dream By Sarah Beth Durst $16.99 Pub Date: 11/03/2015 Young teens Rosemary and Adam are challenged to believe in and defeat a spell that makes people vanish, even from memory, after they accidently use it on Adam s sister. A fun, fast read with broad appeal." School Library Journal, starred review Funny, warm, and highly imaginative. KirkusReviews, starred review Thank You! Lisa DiSarro Director of School & Library Marketing Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books for Young Readers 222 Berkeley Street Boston, MA F lisa.disarro@hmhco.com Ilise Levine Sales & Marketing J. Scott Savage Tyler Whitesides Instagram: HMHKids Facebook: HMHTeen Tumblr: hmhkids.tumblr.com Pinterest: HMHKids Blog: hmhyoungreadersblog.com 12

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14 Special thanks to today s panelists! Beth Oleniczak Marketing Specialist Mary Cash Editor-in-Chief Kelly Loughman Editor Valerie Garfield Vice President Today s webinar will be archived at Where you can also register for these upcoming webinars! Lisa DiSarro Director of School & Library Marketing Ilise Levine Sales & Marketing J. Scott Savage Tyler Whitesides 14

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