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April 23, 2026 by Travis Jonker

What Happens Next? A Guest Post by Dev Petty

Today we have a guest post from author Dev Petty, talking about CLAYDATE, a sequel almost 9 years in the making . . . Stories are equipment for living. -Kenneth Burke, American literary theorist, poet, essayist, and novelist. My most recent book, CLAYDATE, illustrated by the incomparable dimensional illustrator Lauren Eldridge, is the long awaited […]

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Rounding up 2026 books from past Printz Medal and Honor winners.

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Over on The Yarn podcast, I talk with author Jasmine Warga about her latest middle grade novel, The Unlikely Tale of Chase and Finnegan.

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