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Winter 2014 Macmillan Young Listeners Jacket Cover MACMILLAN YOUNG LISTENERS FEBRUARY 2014 Cress Marissa Meyer; Read by Rebecca Soler The third book in Marissa Meyer’s New York Times/USA Today­ bestselling Lunar Chronicles series, inspired by Rapunzel. Cinder and Captain Thorne are fugitives on the run, with Scarlet and Wolf in tow. Together, they’re plotting to overthrow Queen Levana and her army. Their best hope lies with Cress, who has been trapped on a satellite since JUVENILE FICTION / FAIRY childhood with only her netscreens as company. All that screen time has made TALES & FOLKLORE Cress an excellent hacker – unfortunately, she’s just received orders from Macmillan Young Listeners | 2/4/2014 9781427236272 | $39.99 / $45.99 Can. Levana to track down Cinder and her handsome accomplice. CD­Audio | Carton Qty: When a daring rescue goes awry, the group is separated. Cress finally has her Subrights: Second Serial, Selection, Audio, Non­Dramatic Readings freedom, but it comes at a high price. Meanwhile, Queen Levana will let nothing stop her marriage to Emperor Kai. Cress, Scarlet, and Cinder may not have Other Available Formats: Hardcover ISBN: 9780312642976 signed up to save the world, but they may be the only ones who can. MARKETING PRAISE * Bonus material with the author and narrator “Soler navigates the alternating story lines well, easily transitioning from a slightly * Author/narrator in­store event robotic tone for Cinder and her android Iko, to just a hint of a French accent in Scarlet * Print advertising: School Library Journal and Horn Book and Wolf’s tale.” —AudioFile * Back ads in the trade pbks. when released * Griffin Teen promotion * Audio promotion in library e­newsletter “Rebecca Soler gives another solid performance of the futuristic fairy tale series. Her youthful voice is well cast to narrate the concurrent stories of the two teenagers, Audio tie­in to the Feiwel marketing plans, seamlessly navigating between the story lines…Fans of Cinder will be completely including: satisfied as action and romance abound and the stakes are even higher in this * $250,000 Major Marketing Campaign * Strict On­Sale Date installment. Listeners will be clamoring for the next two titles in the quartet.” —School * Prepublication Trade Advertising Library Journal * National Consumer Advertising Campaign * Prepublication YA Blog Tour MARISSA MEYER's first and second books in the Lunar Chronicles series, Cinder and Scarlet, * National Author Tour both debuted on the New York Times bestseller list. She lives in Tacoma, Washington, with her * Promotions at San Die... husband and their three cats. Visit her at www.marissameyer.com. ALSO AVAILABLE Scarlet 2/2013 | 9781427229649 CD­Audio | $39.99 / $45.99 Can. Cinder: Book One of the Lunar Chronicles 1/2012 | 9781427215000 CD­Audio | $39.99 / $45.99 Can. 2 Jacket Cover MACMILLAN YOUNG LISTENERS MARCH 2014 Stay Where You Are And Then Leave John Boyne The next work of historical fiction from the author of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, Stay Where You Are and Then Leave is a touching look at the effects war has on a family. JUVENILE FICTION / FAMILY The day the First World War broke out, Alfie Summerfield's father promised he Macmillan Young Listeners | 3/25/2014 9781427236371 | $29.99 wouldn't go away to fight—but he broke that promise the following day. Four CD­Audio | Carton Qty: years later, Alfie doesn't know where his father might be, other than that he's Subrights: away on a special, secret mission. Then, while shining shoes at King's Cross First Serial, Second Serial, Selection Rights, Station, Alfie unexpectedly sees his father's name on a sheaf of papers belonging Audio to a military doctor. Bewildered and confused, Alfie realizes his father is in a Other Available Formats: hospital close by—a hospital treating soldiers with shell shock. Alfie isn't sure Hardcover ISBN: 9781627790314 what shell shock is, but he is determined to rescue his father from this strange, Ebook ISBN: 9781627790321 unnerving place. MARKETING PRAISE * Print Advertising: School Library Journal, Praise for The Boy in the Striped Pajamas: Horn Book, and BookPage * Audio promo in library e­newsletter “In the final pages, the tension rises precipitously and the harrowing ending, in which * GoodReads giveaway with finished copies at pub. Bruno does finally act, is sure to take readers' breath away.” —Publishers Weekly “Deeply affecting. beautiful and sparsely written.” —The Wall Street Journal Audio tie­in to the Holt BYR marketing plans, including: “A small wonder of a book . this is what fiction is supposed to do.” —The Guardian * tk “Powerful and unsettling . as memorable an introduction to the subject as The Diary of Anne Frank.” —USA Today JOHN BOYNE was born in Ireland in 1971 and is the author of seven novels. Boyne's celebrated The Boy in the Striped Pajamas was winner of the Irish Book Award Children's Book of the Year, as well as numerous other awards and commendations. It was longlisted for the Carnegie Medal and the International IMPAC Literary Award and was made into a Miramax feature film. His novels are published in over 40 languages. He lives in Dublin, Ireland. johnboyne.com 3 Jacket Cover MACMILLAN YOUNG LISTENERS APRIL 2014 Illusion Chronicles of Nick Sherrilyn Kenyon; Read by Holter Graham The fifth novel in the bestselling Chronicles of Nick series from #1 New York Times bestselling author Sherrilyn Kenyon Be careful what you wish for...You just might get it. JUVENILE FICTION / SCIENCE FICTION, FANTASY, & MAGIC Macmillan Young Listeners | 4/1/2014 Nick Gautier is tired of his destiny. He doesn’t want to be the son of a demon 9781427236258 | $29.99 / $34.50 Can. who’s fated to end the world. Nor does he want to see another demon or other CD­Audio | Carton Qty: preternatural creature who wants to kill or enslave him. He just wants to be Subrights: normal and have normal problems like everyone else. UK Rights: Atom (Little, Brown UK) But normality isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. When he gets sucked into an alternate reality where his mother has married his mentor and his Atlantean god Translation Rights: Trident Media Group best friend has become a human geek, he begins to understand that no life is free Other Available Formats: of pain, and that every person has a specific place in the universe... Even the son Hardcover ISBN: 9781250002846 of a hated demon. Ebook ISBN: 9781466847279 Most of all, he sees that his powers aren’t the curse he thought they were, and MARKETING that the world needs a champion, especially one its enemies can’t imagine rising * Print Advertising: Library Journal up to defend the ones he should destroy. * GriffinTeen promotion * Promotion on SherrilynKenyon.com, Old enemies and new friends square off for a major battle that will either restore NickGautier.com and Official Sanctuary.com Nick to his real world, or end him forever. Audio tie­in to the Griffin marketing plans, PRAISE including: * National One Day Laydown: 4/1/2014 “Kenyon's writing is brisk, ironic and relentless imaginative. These are not your * National Print Publicity mother's vampire novels.” —Boston Globe * Extensive Online Marketing and Advertising Campaign “Graham reads in a light tenor voice with a suggestion of a southern drawl, conveying * Email Marketing Campaign * Online Promotion to Griffin Teen both Nick's snarky humor and inner uncertainties as he tries to discover who is pulling Community the strings and what the connection is to his future destiny. Alternating tones, pacing, * Library Marketing Campaign and inflections to voice all characters, Graham smoothly narrates this action­packed, * Academic Marketing Campaign * Active on Facebook­ 152,000 Fans suspenseful tale, a must­listen for series fans.” —Booklist on Infamous * Author Websites: ­ sherrilynk... New York Times bestselling author SHERRILYN KENYON is a regular in the #1 spot. This extraordinary bestseller continues to top every genre in which she writes. With more than 30 million copies of her books in print in more than one hundred countries, her current series include The ALSO AVAILABLE Dark­Hunters, The League, and Chronicles of Nick. Her Chronicles of Nick series is soon to be a Infamous: Chronicles of Nick major motion picture. And the Dark­Hunters will soon be gracing both the big and little screens. 3/2012 | 9781427214898 CD­Audio | $29.99 / $34.50 Can. Invincible: The Chronicles of Nick 3/2011 | 9781427211248 CD­Audio | $29.99 / $34.50 Can. Infinity: Chronicles of Nick 4 Index Boyne, John; Stay Where You Are And Then Leave. 3 Cress; Marissa Meyer. .2 Illusion: Chronicles of Nick; Sherrilyn Kenyon. 4 Kenyon, Sherrilyn; Illusion: Chronicles of Nick. 4 Meyer, Marissa; Cress. 2 Stay Where You Are And Then Leave; John Boyne. 3.

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