Sparkpress: 72 books

• TV and book series that follow a group of main characters through high school (Pretty Little Liars, Gossip Girl, and The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants) have experienced enormous success in recent years. • More than 50 million women in the US came of age during the time period the majority...

Briar Logan is a loner who has already survived a wretched childhood, near starvation, and the harsh western frontier in the 1860s. Just when she is on the brink of finally opening her heart to the possibilities of happiness, the love of her life is kidnapped by lawless gold miners—and she steels...

Ron Bahar is an insecure, self-deprecating, seventeen-year-old Nebraskan striving to please his Israeli immigrant parents, Ophira and Ezekiel, while remaining true to his own dreams. During his senior year of high school, he begins to date longtime crush and non-Jewish girl Amy Andrews—a forbidden...

• Over 510,000 American children are currently in foster care. • YA fiction is still selling strong, with teen as well as adult readership. • Running with Water and Sky has all the elements that makes a YA novel sell well: A strong YA voice, a quick-pace, heightened emotions, an intriguing story,...

Surrounded by lush flowers and neurotic brides, Elly Jordan has carved out a sweet life for herself as the owner of Posies, a boutique florist in St. Louis. Not bad for a woman who drove away from her life two years earlier when she found her husband entwined with a redheaded artist. Sure, Elly has...

Sam Baron is about to get the shock of his life. First his substitute English teacher claims to have turned his old teacher into a lizard; then a strange dwarf named Rego arrives and claims Sam is from a magical realm called Orkney. When his friends are taken prisoner, it’s up to Sam to save them....

Fifteen-year-old Courtney wants to be normal like her friends. But there’s something frighteningly different about her—and it’s not just the mysterious tattoo her conspiracy-obsessed grandfather marked her with when she was a child. The last thing Courtney wants to do is end up crazy and dead...

The first installment in a new educational activities series designed to help children expand their creativity and improve their reading and language skills, Reading is Fun! Imagine That! is a collection of children’s story-poems that encourage children to respond by creating artworks and writings...

• Lushly drawn illustrations •Heartwarming tale of 1920s America •Historical fiction for younger audience •Second in a series

Sam Baron just freed Orkney from the ravages of the Red Sun—but now, imprisoned by Catriona, leader of the Volgrim Witches, Sam finds the darker side of his half-god, half-witch heritage released, and he fears he might destroy what he saved. Unable to resist the witches' enchantments, Sam has become...

After defeating the Volgrim witches, life in Orkney is quiet. Too quiet. Before Sam Baron can catch his breath, an army of fire giants led by Surt gather in the Eighth Realm of Musspell, determined to destroy Orkney, and it's all Sam's fault. After all, he took Odin's life with an ancient cursed dagger,...

• There is a large audience for tween adventure fantasy novels right now, with competitors like Rick Riordan bringing out similarly themed books. • The series is targeted for younger readers interested in fantasy but not ready for longer, dense reads—a huge audience. • The series serves as...

• Total print sales in the US rose 2% in 2014, but children’s books were the key driver, with 13% growth. • The book includes lushly drawn illustrations. • A heartwarming tale of 1920s America. • Historical fiction for younger audience. • The book is the third in a series. • The “Santa” theme will give the book seasonal holiday appeal.

KEY SELLING POINTS • Total print sales in the US rose 2% in 2014, but children’s books were the key driver, with 13% growth. • All children’s book sales were strong in 2016/2017, but juvenile fiction and juvenile nonfiction in particular showed growth. • The book is the fourth in a series. AUDIENCE: • Children ages 4–8 • Parents of young children • K–3 Teachers