Tessa Duder
This week, I’ve been with Elena Ferrante in Naples, travelling The Silk Roads with Peter Frankopan... More
Wild Swans
Popular bestseller that has sold more than 13 million copies. More
Dodger
Michael L. Printz Honor Book from bestselling author Sir Terry Pratchett; rich with humor and wisdom. More
The New Kid on the Block
Prelutsky was named America’s first Children’s Poet Laureate by the Poetry Foundation. More
Divergent
First book in the Divergent trilogy, which has sold more than 32 million copies worldwide. More
Sarah, Plain and Tall
Newbery Award winner about the power of family, which has sold over 4.5 million copies. More
Monster
Winner of the first Michael L. Printz Award and the Coretta Scott King Award. More
The Weirdstone of Brisingamen
Garner’s celebrated children’s fantasy novel has become a cult classic of children’s literature. More
Freaky Friday
Classic comedic children’s novel that is so funny it has been adapted into film three times. More
Katherine Applegate
I write to see where I’ve already been. More
Old Yeller
Instantly acclaimed, it has become one of the most beloved children’s classics ever written. More
Katherine Paterson
I read because I want more than one life, and books give me a limitless number of lives—lives that are different from the one I was born into. More
The Gulag Archipelago
Named “the best nonfiction book of the 20th century” by Time magazine. More
Sara Pennypacker
I write because the really good stuff—how funny and beautiful the world is, even when it’s not; More
Victoria Aveyard
Reading, writing, and story have always been my gateway. More
Soman Chainani
Whatever psychic wounds have turned me into a writer I am thankful for. More
Bridge to Terabithia
Newbery Medal–winning novel; a true modern classic and touchstone of children’s literature. More
The Graveyard Book
Winner of the Newbery Medal, the Carnegie Medal, and the Hugo Award for Best Novel. More
Angela’s Ashes
The phenomenal worldwide bestseller and Pulitzer Prize winner. More
Journey to Jo’burg
Groundbreaking book set in South Africa during the apartheid era and banned by its government. More
Mary Karr
I read to save my life, to take communion, to enter a community of fellow sufferers and rejoicers. More
Charlotte’s Web
Considered a classic of children’s literature; a novel of friendship, love, life, and death. More
Red Scarf Girl
Searing memoir set during the height of the Cultural Revolution in China. More
Rita Williams-Garcia
My childhood reading helped to build me from the inside. More
The History of HarperCollins Children’s Books in the U.S.
The Department of Books for Boys and Girls at Harper was established in the U.S. in 1926. More
The Year of Magical Thinking
Winner of the 2005 National Book Award for Nonfiction and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. More
Henry Huggins
The debut novel from Newbery Medal–winning author Beverly Cleary. More