A STAR for Wicked Nix!
In just over a month, WICKED NIX will arrive on the shelves. It’s a nail-biting time for an author because reviews are starting to come in. I’m so delighted that NIX has just received its first star from Booklist! It’s also going to be a Junior Library Guild selection! October 9th, here we come! – ★ “Nix, “the foulest of the fairies,” lives in the forest near a village, subsisting on fairy gifts from townspeople or anything he can scrounge up (“it’s not stealing if you’re a fairy”), all while waiting for the return of the fairy queen, who abandoned him last...
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Really thrilled with some of the advanced praise that Wicked Nix is getting. Check out my latest blurb from Jonathan Auxier. The best fairy story he’s read in years!!...
Read More“Easily the best fairy story I’ve read in years.”
– Jonathan Auxier, NYT bestselling author of The Night Gardener
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A blurb from Kelly Barnhill!
I am utterly delighted to share this blurb for my upcoming MG novel, WICKED NIX, from Newbery Award winner (!!) Kelly Barnhill!!!! “Wicked Nix is like any other fairy food – it is delightful; it will cut you to the core. With humor and heartbreak, devastating loss and the hope of connection, Wicked Nix is a meditation on the lies we tell ourselves to protect ourselves, and the unexpected ways we might build a family. A sharp, startling, wondrous story.” Kelly Barnhill...
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Hi! I'm Lena, a young adult fantasy author from Toronto.