#erin entrada kelly

[brizadeiro-doce]

I LOVED THIS BOOK AS A CHILD SO MUCH OMAGA PLS PLS I NEED THE FANDOM TO BE REAL

[wannabe-british-fangirl]

~ books read in 2024 ~

#10: You Are Here: Connecting Flights edited by Ellen Oh

On the map, the airport was a sprawling complex with numerous concourses branching out from the main terminal like long, curving spider legs.

Rating: 4.5/5

Three Sentence Review: This was such a fun, fast read! I love short story collections that are woven together in one time and place like this, even if I am certainly older than the target audience for this particular book. I think all of the lessons in this book make it a great and important read for kids and adults of all backgrounds and ages.

[wahlpaper]

First Name Challenge! - Hannah

Books Used:

H - Hello, Universe by Erin Entrada Kelly

A - Always Only You by Chloe Liese

N - Nate Plus One by Kevin van Whye

N - Nick and Charlie by Alice Oseman

A - Asunder (Dragon Age) by David Gaider

H - How To Ride a Dragon's Storm by Cressida Cowell

[battyaboutbooksreviews]

🗞️ Bookish News: August 2024 Edition

🦇 Extra, extra. Read all about it! Good evening, bookish bats! A lot happened in the publishing industry this month, but here are a few highlights you may have missed! ⤵

📺 Adaptations 💜 The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires: limited series on HBO 💜 His & Hers - Alice Feeney: limited series for Netflix 💜 The God of the Woods and The Unseen World - Liz Moore: series for Sony 💜 My Lady Jane cancelled by Prime after one season 💜 Mark Hamill has joined the highly anticipated adaptation of Stephen King’s The Long Walk 💜 Court of Thorns and Roses series faces another setback - showrunner exits the production 💜 Trailer for Season 2 of Pachinko 💜 Britney Spears’ memoir is being made into a biopic 💜 Tom Blyth and Emily Bader starring in Netflix’s People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry 💜 The Games of Thrones prequel promos are out 💜 Burn Book: A Tech Love Story - Kara Swisher optioned as a series 💜 Every Summer After - Carley Fortune - Amazon series 💜 Regretting You - Colleen Hoover - McKenna Grace to star ppposite Allison Williams 💜 Verity - Colleen Hoover - no casting yet 💜 Percy Jackson season 2 is currently filming, and Sandra Bernhard, Kristen Schaal, and Margaret Cho have joined the cast of the Disney+ series 💜 Remarkably Bright Creatures - Shelby Van Pelt - Sally Field to star 💜 Bridgerton cast Yerin Ha as Sophie Beckett, Benedict’s love interest 💜 The Picture of Dorian Gray is getting a contemporary TV series adaptation 💜 Kazuo Ishiguro’s debut novel A Pale View of Hills is getting an adaptation

📕 Cover Reveals 💜 When We Were Real - Daryl Gregory 💜 Blood on Her Tongue - Johanna van Veen 💜 Frenemies with Benefits - Synithia Williams 💜 The ABCs of Democracy - Hakeem Jeffries 💜 Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke 💜 Cleavage: Men, Women, and the Space Between Us - Jennifer Finney Boylan 💜 The Silent Emperor - Snorri Krsitjansson 💜 Nothing Bad Happens Here - Rachel Ekstrom Courage 💜 Open, Heaven - Seán Hewitt 💜 And, Too, the Fox - Ada Limón & Gaby D’Alessandro 💜 On Again, Awkward Again - Erin Entrada Kelly and Kwame Mbalia 💜 Stop Me if You’ve Heard This One - Kristen Arnett 💜 Stage Dance - Torrey Peters 💜 The Hymn to Dionysus - Natasha Pulley 💜 Time After Time - Mikki Daughtry 💜 Pizza Witch - Sarah Graley & Stef Purenins 💜 A Drop of Corruption - Robert Jackson Bennett

⏰ Upcoming Releases 💜 Young Sheldon actress Raegan Revord is publishing her debut young adult novel, Rules for Fake Girlfriends 💜 Liza Minnelli has announced a new tell-all memoir 💜 Brooke Shields is Not Allowed to Get Old - Brooke Shields 💜 Maureen Johnson has announced a new book which she describes as “a case file in book form,” with a sealed solution in the back of the book: You Are the Detective: The Creeping Hand Murder 💜 Olympic track star Allyson Felix has sold North American rights to a memoir, Fast and Slow, to the Dial Press 💜 Meghan Markle is allegedly planning on releasing a tell-all memoir 💜 House of Blight - Maxym M. Martineau 💜 Tor acquired Talia Hibbert’s romantasy debut The Last Thorn

🗞️ News 💜 Francine Pascal, author of the Sweet Valley High books, died at 92 💜 This year’s longlist for the Booker Prize has been announced 💜 Flatiron is debuting a new imprint, Pine and Cedar Books 💜 New GMA Book Club pick: The Seventh Veil of Salome - Silvia Moreno-Garcia 💜 Algerian boxer and gold medalist Imane Khelif has filed a cyber harassment lawsuit against Elon Musk and JK Rowling for their disparaging comments about the boxer’s gender during the Olympics 💜 Kristen Bell will be reuniting with her Frozen costar, Josh Gad, to narrate his upcoming children’s book PictureFace Lizzy

[bookloure]

Inspired by this tweet, here are some books by Filipino authors that I recently read and loved.

Featured in the list:

📚Lalani of the Distant Sea by Erin Entrada Kelly (middle-grade) 📚 A Bottle of Storm Clouds by Eliza Victoria (short story collection, speculative fiction) 📚 State Of War by Ninotchka Rosca (historical fiction, magical realism) 📚 Smaller and Smaller Circles by F.H. Batacan (crime) 📚 Banana Heart Summer by Merlinda Bobis (coming of age) 📚 Candido's Apocalypse by Nick Joaquin (short story, young adult) 📚 Dangerous Liaisons by Ruth Jordana Pison (essays, feminist) 📚 After Lambana: Myth and Magic in Manila by Eliza Victoria and Mervin Malonzo (graphic novel, urban fantasy) 📚 Noli Me Tangere by Jose Rizal (classic) 📚 Ang Bayan Sa Labas ng Maynila/The Nation Beyond Manila by Rosario-Cruz Lucero (culture and history, essays)

[chapter-title-tournament]

Round 3, Match 9

Hiding a Body and Other Relatable Crimes (Fox's Tongue and Kirin's Bone, Allison M. Kovacs)

Drama in the Freezer Aisle (Hello, Universe, Erin Entrada Kelly)

[whipcreamsucks]

Twenty Books Challenge

Hypothetically, you are only able to keep 20 of your books. Only one book per author/series. So what books are you keeping?

i've been wanting to try this tag for a while! (in the dreadful case of fire or having to move away from my own personal library, of course.

Ministry of Moral Panic by Amanda Lee Koe

Death or Ice Cream? by Gareth P. Jones

The Guineveres by Sarah Domet

Wink Poppy Midnight by April Genevieve Tulcholke

The Penultimate Peril by Lemony Snicket (A Series of Unfortunate Events #12)

Daydreams of Angels by Heather O'Neill

Rich People Problems by Kevin Kwan (Crazy Rich Asians #3)

Little by Edward Carey

Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me by Mariko Tamaki & Rosemary Valero O'Connell

Violets by Shin Kyung-sook

The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter

Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

Drama by Raina Telgemeier

星空 (Starry Starry Night) by Jimmy Liao

The Tracy Beaker Trilogy by Jacqueline Wilson. Surely this is allowed lol since the edition I have is one book by itself

Through the Woods by Emily Carroll

PopCo by Scarlett Thomas

Blackbird Fly by Erin Entrada Kelly

Lucy and Linh by Alice Pung

SuperMutant Magic Academy by Jillian Tamaki

and those are my fated twenty. wow this wasn't like picking favourite children at all (it was)

i tag @celeste-fitzgerald @mithranqueer @rabidsliceofbread @snookeroo @maryblackwood and @soopsiedaisies ! totally optional, but i'd be so glad to see your picks!

[richincolor]

New Releases 

New week, new books out tomorrow! Are any of these on your TBR pile?

Kismat Connection by Ananya Devarajan

Is it possible to change your fate? Madhuri Iyer is doomed. Doomed for her upcoming senior year to be a total failure, according to her astrology-obsessed mother, and doomed to a happily ever after with her first boyfriend, according to her family curse.

Determined to prove the existence of her free will, Madhuri devises an experimental relationship with the one boy she knows she’ll never fall for: her childhood best friend, Arjun Mehta. But Arjun’s feelings for her are a variable she didn’t account for. As Madhuri starts to fall for her experimental boyfriend, she’ll have to decide if charting her own destiny is worth breaking Arjun’s heart—and her own.

Boundless: Twenty Voices Celebrating Multicultural and Multiracial Identities edited by Ismée Amiel Williams and Rebecca Balcárcel When identities cross boundaries, with love that knows no bounds. From platonic and romantic love to grief and heartbreak, these stories explore navigating life at the intersection of identities, and what it means to grow up surrounded by a multitude of traditions, languages, cultures, and interpersonal dynamics. Returning to a father’s homeland. Trying to fit in at chaotic weddings and lavish birthday parties where not all are welcome. Processing grief at family gatherings. Figuring out how to share the news of a new relationship with loved ones. This collection celebrates multicultural and multiracial characters at the helm of their own narratives, as they approach life with a renewed sense of hope and acceptance.

Featuring original stories from: Adi Alsaid Rebecca Balcárcel Akemi Dawn Bowman Anika Fajardo Shannon Gibney I.W. Gregorio Veera Hiranandani Nasugraq Rainey Hopson Emiko Jean Erin Entrada Kelly Torrey Maldonado Mélina Mangal Goldy Moldavsky Randy Ribay Loriel Ryon Tara Sim Eric Smith Jasmine Warga Ismée Williams Karen Yin

What She Missed by Liara Tamani When Ebony and her parents move from Houston, Texas, to her grandmother’s house in a small lake town, Ebony is sure her life is doomed. And to make matters worse, the ghost of Ebony’s beloved grandmother—a strong swimmer who tragically drowned in the lake—is everywhere. Alula Lake does offer one perk: reconnecting Ebony with her childhood friend, Jalen. But as Ebony settles into life, she finds herself drifting away from Jalen and gravitating to his older sister, Lena. Lena is chaotic, disorderly, and rebellious, yet she offers a reprieve for the anger and sadness Ebony feels about losing so much.

An ode to nature, art, friendship, history, family, and love, this lyrical coming-of-age story explores one girl’s summer of self-discovery as she reimagines the world and her place in it. What She Missed is for fans of Sarah Dessen, Nina LaCour, and Nicola Yoon.

Everyone Wants to Know by Kelly Loy Gilbert This ripped-from-the-tabloids young adult drama by the critically acclaimed author Kelly Loy Gilbert about a girl’s famous-for-being-famous family fracturing from within as their dirty laundry gets exposed.

The Lo family sticks together. That’s what Honor has been told her whole life while growing up in the glare of the public eye on Lo and Behold , the reality show about her, her four siblings, and their parents. Their show may be off the air, but the Lo family members still live in the spotlight as influencers churning out podcasts, bestselling books, and brand partnerships. So when Honor’s father announces that he’s moving out of their northern California home to rent an apartment in Brooklyn, Honor’s personal upset becomes the internet’s trending B-list celebrity trainwreck—threatening the aspirational image the Los’ brand (and livelihood) depends on.

After one of her best friends leaks their private conversation to a gossip site, bruised and betrayed Honor pours all her energy into reuniting her family. With her parents 3,000 miles apart, her siblings torn into factions, and all of them under claustrophobic public scrutiny, this is easier said than done. Just when Honor feels at her lowest, a guarded yet vulnerable boy named Caden comes into her life and makes her want something beyond the tight Lo inner circle for the first time. But is it fair to open her heart to someone new when the people she loves are teetering on the edge of ruin?

As increasingly terrible secrets come to light about the people Honor thought she knew best in the world, she’s forced to choose between loyalty to her family and fighting for the life she wants.

[thx-sunsxts-addrxss]

Comfort piece of media (movie, show, book, etc) and why?

My comfort book is and will always be ‘Hello Universe’ by Erin Entrada Kelly. There is not much romance, except Virgil having a small crush on Valencia, and focuses on the friendship. It’s a book for 4th and 5th graders, but it means so much to me. The way fate comes together and helps Virgil out of the well is just mesmerizing. Fate played an important part in this book. The way Virgil only told Kaori (and Gen) Valencia’s initials but them still finding out who she was and them rescuing Virgil was so. It’s so comfy.

[twentyghosts]

Hello, love the podcast! Do you have any middle grade recs with Deaf/HoH characters? Audiobooks or graphic novels would also be awesome.

Thanks!

You're prob already familiar with the GOAT El Deafo by Cece Bell, but just in case you're not, I'd recommend it for sure.

There's also: Show Me a Sign by Ann Clare LeZotte (cool historical fiction about the Deaf community on Martha's Vineyard), Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick (gorgeous partially-graphic novel), Hello Universe by Erin Entrada Kelly (kids on a forest adventure to get their friend out of a well), and You Don't Know Everything, Jilly P! by Alex Gino (contemporary intersectionality for middle grade readers).

I'd also suggest checking out the Schneider Family Book Award winners (awards for youth literature that portray the disability experience).

[tracichee]

Have you preordered your copy of YOU ARE HERE yet? Starting today, you can get 25% off preorders at Barnes & Noble! Use PREORDER25 at checkout.

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A powerful and engaging exploration of contemporary Asian American identity through interwoven stories set in a teeming Chicago airport, written by award-winning and bestselling East and Southeast Asian American authors including Linda Sue Park, Grace Lin, Erin Entrada Kelly, Traci Chee, and Ellen Oh. Flying Lessons meets Black Boy Joy.

“The individual narratives are consistently engaging and rewarding, and together they form a unique collection of interconnected stories about young, contemporary Asian American characters.”—Booklist, Starred Review

An incident at a TSA security check point sows chaos and rumors, creating a chain of events that impacts twelve young Asian Americans in a crowded and restless airport. As their disrupted journeys crisscross and collide, they encounter fellow travelers—some helpful, some hostile—as they discover the challenges of friendship, the power of courage, the importance of the right word at the right time, and the unexpected significance of a blue Stratocaster electric guitar.

Twelve powerhouse Asian American authors explore themes of identity and belonging in the entwined experiences of young people whose family roots may extend to East and Southeast Asia, but who are themselves distinctly American.

Written by Linda Sue Park, Erin Entrada Kelly, Grace Lin, Traci Chee, Mike Chen, Meredith Ireland, Mike Jung, Minh Le, Ellen Oh, Randy Ribay, Christina Soontornvat, and Susan Tan, and edited by Ellen Oh.

[bookcoversaroundtheworld]

A Strange Thing Happened in Cherry Hall - US

From the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of A Rover's Story and Other Words for Home comes an extraordinary story about two friends, a ghost, a missing painting, and a turtle named Agatha. The perfect next read for fans of The Swifts, Kate DiCamillo, and Erin Entrada Kelly.

[musingsofabookworm1]

Reads from October 2024

Only four reads to start October. But most quality!

The Measure by Nikki Erlick - The reader meets eight characters in this speculative fiction novel. One morning, the entire world wakes up to a box. This box contains a string. The string reveals how long you will live. Some open the box immediately. Some wait. Some never open it at all. What are the pros and cons of doing so? The reader finds out through this cast of characters. I sped through this one in two nights. I was afraid the ending might be disappointing, but it was quite satisfying indeed! 4 stars. 

King of the Armadillos by Wendy Chin-Tanner - This is the second book I’ve read set in Carville: the only home for those diagnosed with leprosy in the US. I didn’t love the amount of prose in this book. It felt much longer than it was. It’s the story of teen Victor Chin who is sent from his home in Brooklyn to Carville when he’s diagnosed with Hansen’s Disease (leprosy). Born in China, he’s lived in the US most of his life with his father and brother. His mother remains in China, and she does not know he’s been shipped off to Louisiana for treatment.This eats away at Victor who does get to speak with his brother in small doses over the phone during his time at Carville. Overall, just average for me. 3 stars. 

The First State of Being by Erin Entrada Kelly - Kelly is one of my favorite middle grade authors. And she did not disappoint with this one! I’m not going to try to do justice to a summary or divulge too much, so here’s what the official jacket summary is:

It's August 1999. For twelve-year-old Michael Rosario, life at Fox Run Apartments in Red Knot, Delaware, is as ordinary as ever—except for the looming Y2K crisis and his overwhelming crush on his fifteen-year-old babysitter, Gibby. But when a disoriented teenage boy named Ridge appears out of nowhere, Michael discovers there is more to life than stockpiling supplies and pining over Gibby.

It turns out that Ridge is carefree, confident, and bold, things Michael wishes he could be. Unlike Michael, however, Ridge isn’t where he belongs. When Ridge reveals that he’s the world’s first time traveler, Michael and Gibby are stunned but curious. As Ridge immerses himself in 1999—fascinated by microwaves, basketballs, and malls—Michael discovers that his new friend has a book that outlines the events of the next twenty years, and his curiosity morphs into something else: focused determination. Michael wants—no, needs—to get his hands on that book. How else can he prepare for the future? But how far is he willing to go to get it?

5 stars. Cannot recommend enough!

The Daughters of Shandong by Eve J. Chung - This one was heavy. Even for me. You know you’re not getting the feel-good book of the year when you’re picking up a novel set in Community China. The daughters in the title are those of the Ang family who has only daughters so no male heir. When the Communist army closes in, the father ups and leaves his family. And due to having no male heir to punish, the Communists beat the oldest daughter to within an inch of her life. Her mother decides to take her girls and escape in hopes of finding their freedom and the husband that abandoned them. Endurance. Resilience.  You name it, this mother and her daughters have it all as they live through some of the most cruel situations full of danger, sorrow, and all the negative descriptions you can think of. Not for the faint of heart, but an eye-opening, important read. 4 stars.

[anicarissi]

Two recent nice things that happened to WISHING SEASON (and therefore to me):

1. It’s one of 15 books nominated for the 2025-2026 Louisiana Readers’ Choice Awards Program in the category for Grades 3-5. Nominees were chosen by Louisiana librarians and teachers, and will be read and voted on by students across the state. This thrills me!

2. The Horn Book chose WISHING SEASON for its 2024 Mind the Gap Awards: an annual list of “deserving books” that didn’t win any ALA awards (Newbery, Caldecott, etc) but could have. Never have I ever been so pleased to find myself on a list of losers. :) It’s lovely to hear they considered it a contender.

Middle grade (for ages 8 and up) is a tough category to be publishing into these days (sales are way down, and book bans run rampant), but I absolutely love writing it—in part because the books I picked up in third through seventh grade are the ones I most vividly remember reading. They shaped who I am as a reader, thinker, writer, and human. And it’s a category I still love reading, especially on audio. (Erin Entrada Kelly’s THE FIRST STATE OF BEING and Erin Bow’s SIMON SORT OF SAYS are two recent favorites. Up next in my queue is Jasmine Warga’s A STRANGE THING HAPPENED IN CHERRY HALL. If you haven’t read Jasmine’s other middle grade novels, such as A ROVER’S STORY, you’re missing out!)

I’ve been lucky to publish a spooky middle grade collection (HIDE AND DON’T SEEK: AND OTHER VERY SCARY STORIES) and a sad-but-hopeful middle grade novel (WISHING SEASON), and I hope that the funny, friendship-based, hijinks-filled middle grade novel I’ve been working on these past few years will find a good home when it goes out to editors soon. Keep your fingers crossed for it/me? Thank you!

[mssarahmorgan]

Book 62 of 2024: The First State of Being by Erin Entrada Kelly

Setting aside how frankly rude it is to write historical fiction about a time when I was alive, this is a sweet and lovely middle grade book. Michael is really worried about Y2K--and about his mom having to work three jobs--when a strange boy named Ridge appears in his neighborhood claiming to be a time traveler. Michael and his babysitter, Gibby, try to help Ridge get home. In the meantime, Michael works on living in the present. Very sweet and heartfelt, with a plot that just fits together perfectly like puzzle pieces.

What to read next: Maggie & Abby’s Neverending Pillow Fort, by Will Taylor, for another sweet middle grade book with a light spec-fic element and lots of heart.

[chapter-title-tournament]

Round 1, Match 37

The Question of Yelling (Hello, Universe, Erin Entrada Kelly)

There's No Hope for You, Virgil Salinas (Hello, Universe, Erin Entrada Kelly)