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A STAR for Wicked Nix!

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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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A blurb from Jonathan Auxier!

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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!!...

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“Easily the best fairy story I’ve read in years.”

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“Easily the best fairy story I’ve read in years.”

– Jonathan Auxier, NYT bestselling author of The Night Gardener

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This is a magical fairy tale…

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This is a magical fairy tale…

School Library Connection

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A blurb from Kelly Barnhill!

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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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