Chiamaka and Devon will have to join forces to bring Aces down-or lose everything.Īmari and the Night Brothers. That's all they have in common until an online bully going by the name "Aces” starts spilling all their secrets. Macmillan/Feiwel & Friends, $18.99 (9781250800817).Īmbitious queen bee Chiamaka and loner scholarship kid Devon are the only Black students at school. Sarem, speaking to Publishers Weekly, said: “It’s silly to say ‘I didn’t know about this book, so how can it be doing well?’ We should all be supportive of each other.” She added that she had been promoting the book at Wizard World Comic Con events, and that there had been a lot of buzz around it.The members of the Best Fiction for Young Adults Blogging Team are: Coordinator, Allie Stevens, Calhoun County Library, Hampton, AR Lindsay Bailey, Belfast Area High School Library, Belfast, ME Heather Christensen, Portales Municipal Schools, Portales, NM Matthew Clark, Bayview Glen Upper School, Toronto, Ontario Megan Jackson, Free Library of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA Amanda Kordeliski, Norman Public Schools, Norman, OK Shelbie Marks, Metropolitan Library System, Oklahoma City, OK Kali Olson, The Blake School, Minneapolis, MN Beth Slade, Twinsburg Public Library, Twinsburg, OH Andrea Vernola, Kalamazoo Public Library, Kalamazoo, MI and Courtney Waters, Missouri River Regional Library, Jefferson City, MO.Īce of Spades. We’ll be issuing an updated Young Adult Hardcover list for September 3 which will not include that title.” The paper said: “After investigating the inconsistencies in the most recent reporting cycle, we’ve decided that the sales for Handbook for Mortals do not meet our criteria for inclusion. Shortly afterwards, the NYT changed its list, removing Sarem’s title and putting Thomas’s novel – in which a teenager’s unarmed best friend is shot by a police officer – back into the top spot. “They all said the same thing: someone called and placed a large order or asked about placing a large bulk order ‘for an upcoming event’.” The lack of social media buzz, the fact that no one in the young adult community was talking about it or had even heard of it … it all sounded fishy.” West said he had spoken to five bookshops about the novel. West told Publishers Weekly: “As soon as I saw the list yesterday, it didn’t make sense to me. An IMDb page for an adaption of the novel lists the author, Sarem (who is also an actor and music act manager), as lined up to play the lead character. Another bookshop shared similar information with West, while Publishers Weekly reported that a shop outside Las Vegas had a customer who ordered 87 copies after learning it was an NYT-reporting shop.Įntertainment website Pajiba, which first reported on the controversy, speculated that “someone, whoever they may be, hopes to use the ‘#1 New York Times bestselling novel’ moniker as a launching pad to a studio deal”. Stamper shared messages he had received from bookshop staff who said they had been contacted to see if their store was an NYT-reporting shop – the paper’s lists are collated from information supplied by a confidential group of stores – before a bulk order was placed. Stamper and other YA writers, including Jeremy West, began to investigate. “You shouldn’t be able to buy your way on to the list. Sells ~5,000 in the first week? Ok,” Stamper wrote on Twitter on Thursday. “A book that no one has heard of except for the two niche blogs that covered the GN press release. But author Phil Stamper began to ask questions, pointing out that the book’s publisher was only launched a month earlier and that the novel was listed as out of stock on Amazon.
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