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Barack Obama’s #1 New York Times bestselling memoir of his childhood and young adult years, a compelling journey through family, race, and identity, is now adapted for young people.

Meghan, The Duchess of Sussex, has authored and will publish on June 8, 2021, her first children’s book, THE BENCH, about the special bond between father and son—as seen through a mother’s eyes.

Amanda Gorman’s THE HILL WE CLIMB: An Inaugural Poem for the Country, a jacketed hardcover edition of her stirring presidential inaugural poem, featuring a foreword by Oprah Winfrey, has debuted at #1 on the New York Times adult fiction, USA Today, and Indie hardcover fiction bestsellers lists, with the highest week-one sales of any poetry book ever published.  The collectible, hardcover

Find out how you can attend Hong Kong’s Ponte Orchestra’s performance of Dan Brown’s WILD SYMPHONY live this Saturday, March 20th!

Worldwide, readers are seeking the comforts of books and live storytelling during this time when we are physically apart, so connecting readers with books and authors is more important than ever.  To help, Penguin Random House is now hosting a wide variety of virtual events each day. Click here to find a partial listing of upcoming events.

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Becoming by Michelle Obama is Coming in Trade Paperback and Young Readers Edition on March 2, 2021!

Wonderful news from the January 25 session of the ALA Midwinter Meeting, an annual convocation, held virtually this year, dear to the nation’s library community. One of its most anticipated highlights is the bestowal of numerous prizes and recognition for previous year’s children’s and young adult fiction and nonfiction deemed to be of resonant literary and cultural importance. Chief among them is the Newbery Medal, awarded yearly to “the most distinguished American children’s book.” This year’s Newbery Medal went to WHEN YOU TRAP A TIGER by Tae Keller.

Due to overwhelming demand, Penguin Young Readers will publish a special hardcover edition of “The Hill We Climb,” the poem written and delivered by Amanda Gorman at the inauguration of the 46th president of the United States, Joe Biden.  At age 22, Ms. Gorman is the sixth and youngest poet to deliver a poetry reading at a presidential inauguration.

The fate of peculiardom hangs in the balance in this epic conclusion to the #1 bestselling Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children series.

The 2020 National Book Award judges have selected the five shortlisted titles in their respective literary categories, and their choices were announced the morning of October 6 by the National Book Foundation.