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I love Gary Schmidt's book  Okay for Now  so I was very excited to learn that NPR had chosen it as the next Backseat Bookclub pick. ( @ NPRBackseat ) The book club will take place at the end of February and throughout the month HMH Kids (@ HMHKids ) will be tweeting favorite moments and quotes from the book and have a chance to win copies of the new paperback release-use hashtag #OK4NOW You can even submit questions to Gary Schmidt for the book club discussion on NPR's Backseat Bookclub website . What's my favorite quote? "I'm a librarian-I always know what I'm talking about."  :)

Suzanne Collins has a new book coming next year-and it's a picture book! According to Publisher's Weekly the book is an autobiographical picture book about a young girl's year when her father is serving in Vietnam. So what do you think? I'm happy to have another book by her, but I do wish it was another YA series. Maybe someday!

I was reading Publisher's Weekly this morning and discovered this news: Neil Gaiman has signed a deal with HarperCollins for more books, including two picture books. One of the picture books is about a little panda and it will be illustrated by Adam Rex! Anyone else think this is the most perfect picture book match up?? I love Adam Rex's art and Neil Gaiman's writing and together in one book will be amazing I'm sure! The deal also includes three new middle grade novels which I couldn't be more excited about! I love book news-it makes my day! :)