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AALB on Facebook! Arthur A. Levine Books is now on Facebook - click on the image to the right to become a fan.

Best Books of the Year! Three AALB titles were included in PW's list of Best Children's Books of 2009: Marcelo in the Real World, Tales from Outer Suburbia, and Lips Touch: Three Times. And the wonderful Marcelo was also named to Amazon.com's list of Best Books for Teens! Congratulations to all!!!

To read the full list of PW's Best Books, click here. And to read about Amazon.com's Best Books, click here.

NY Times Best Illustrated! This year, not one but TWO Arthur A. Levine Books titles were named to the New York Times list of Best Illustrated Children's Books! Our books featured this year were The Snow Day by Komako Sakai and Tales from Outer Suburbia by Shaun Tan. Click here to view the full list.

In the same issue of the New York Times Book Review, both The Snow Day and Tales from Outer Suburbia received stellar reviews! Read the review for Snow Day here, and the review for Suburbia here.

Kirkus Best Books! Two AALB titles from 2009 were named to the Kirkus Reviews list of the Best Children's Books of 2009: Blue Mountain Trouble by Martin Mordecai, and The Snow Day by Komako Sakai! Congratulations, Martin and Komako!

More Kirkus Best Books! Kirkus Reviews has revealed its list of Best Young Adult Books of 2009, and two AALB titles on are the list! Congratulations to Francisco Stork for Marcelo in the Real World, and to Shaun Tan for Tales from Outer Suburbia!!

AAL books are Smithsonian Notables! Three AALB titles from 2009 were named Smithsonian Notable Books: Peaceful Heroes, by Jonah Winter, illustrated by Sean Addy; The Snow Day, by Komako Sakai; and Marcelo in the Real World, by Francisco X. Stork. Congratulations to our authors and illustrators! You can read the complete list here.

Summer is finally here! Summer means sunshine, iced coffee, flip flops, and fantastic new books from AALB! We've got new YA novels from AALB faves Jaclyn Moriarty and Martine Murray. We've got a brilliant debut from Erin McCahan. And we're so proud to welcome Quiara Alegria Hudes and Shino Arihara to our list with English and Spanish editions of their gorgeous Welcome to My Neighborhood.

To read about our Summer 2010 list, please click here. And check out our awesome new paperback covers for The Year of Secret Assignments and The Murder of Bindy Mackenzie!

AALB ebooks! Have a new Kindle/SonyReader/Nook to play with? You can now read select titles from Arthur A. Levine Books as ebooks! Check Amazon.com or BN.com for ebook editions of some of our young adult novels, including Lips Touch, Absolutely Maybe, The Spell Book of Listen Taylor, and Click.

Starred reviews for Death Warriors! Francisco Stork's second novel with AALB, The Last Summer of the Death Warriors, has now received three starred reviews!

PW calls it an "openhearted, sapient novel about finding authentic faith and choosing higher love."

Booklist says "this novel, in the way of the best literary fiction, is an invitation to careful reading that rewards serious analysis and discussion."

And Horn Book says: "Stork�s latest marks him as one of the most promising young adult authors of the new decade; it features unforgettable characters confronting the big philosophical questions in life that will resonate with readers long after book�s end."

To read the full reviews and learn more about the book, click here.

A star for Eighth-Grade Superzero! Publishers Weekly gave a starred review to Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich's Eighth-Grade Superzero, saying "Rhuday-Perkovich delivers a masterful debut, telling a layered middle-school tale filled with characters who are delightfully flawed and, more importantly, striving to overcome those flaws." Congratulations, Gbemi!

To read more about this book, please click here.

Great review for I Now Pronounce You in PW! Erin McCahan's debut novel, I Now Pronounce You Someone Else, received a fantastic review in Publishers Weekly, who cite its "sharp wit," "plenty of romantic interludes," and a "lively first-person narrative". Click here to learn more about this great summer read!