2024 was a dazzling year for Astra Books for Young Readers, with over 40 starred reviews across our childrens’ imprints! What makes a starred books? These titles received shining reviews in 2024! Here’s to celebrating our star-studded titles that released this past year: ★ “As a model of a flamboyant, loudmouthed liberal, it would be hard... Read More

Executive Editor Navah Wolfe has acquired North American rights for Sierra Branham’s debut trilogy.  LOVE GALAXY, the first book, is a romantic science fiction thriller in which a young woman from a dead-end planet gets cast on a reality TV program to compete for the hand of the prince and princess heirs of the empire.... Read More

In a land of lost wonders, the past is stirring once more. In a three-book deal, Aranya Jain at DAW Books has acquired the Micah Grey trilogy by L.R. Lam, author of DRAGONFALL and the forthcoming EMBERCLAW, for publication in 2025. This gaslamp, neo-Victoriana fantasy trilogy is about an intersex debutante, who escapes to the... Read More

2024 has flown by at lightspeed, what a tremendous journey it has been! Here are the books that have you laugh, cry, and gasp in astonishment all year long. FEBRUARY The Vibes: fiction that moves at a breakneck pace across the genre divide MARCH The Vibes: when life gives you lemons, Found Family get’s you... Read More

From fans of K-pop to crime junkies to climate activists, Astra House is here to help you find the perfect gift for every type of reader in your life. For the reader seeking… A book about unrequited love, parasocial relationships, K-pop fandom, or the loneliness of modern life… A novel about the complex interior lives... Read More

Hear from Calkins Creek’s Thalia Leaf, editor of Mason Stokes’ debut YA novel ALL THE TRUTH I CAN STAND, on why this book resonated with her. Dear Reader, I’m excited to introduce my first acquisition for Calkins Creek, the young adult novel All the Truth I Can Stand by Mason Stokes. When this novel first... Read More

From aspiring chefs to sports fans, Astra Books for Young Readers is here to help you find the perfect gift for all the young readers in your life. For the reader… Who can’t stay out of the kitchen! Featured in the 2023 New York Times Holiday Gift Guide! The first of its kind, Look and... Read More

From fans of romantasy to aspiring space travelers, DAW is here to help you find the perfect gift for every type of reader in your life. For the reader seeking… A slowburn, smoldering fantasy romance… An ambitious dark fantasy perfect for readers who like EPIC  narratives and gritty, morally complex characters… A darkly humorous cozy... Read More

Aranya Jain is an editor who joins us from Putnam, Penguin Random House. Aranya has edited multiple #1 New York Times-bestselling authors, including David Ellis and the Clive Cussler franchise, as well as Bram Stoker long-lister Josh Winning and authors Kia Abdullah, Jennifer Herrera, Rachel Eve Moulton, and Hiyoko Kurisu. After growing up in London with... Read More

WHO. WILL. WIN?!?! Filled with humor, poetry, and MONSTERS (of course!), George McClements’ HAIKU KAIJU AH-CHOO! and Vikram Madan’s BEWARE THE DRAGON AND THE NOZZLEWOCK are two ferociously fun books! In this fun Q+A, hear from both creators on their love for the fantastical, their methods for poetry-writing, and which monster they think would conquer. Tell us... Read More