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LA Times Festival of Books

4/21/2025

 
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This weekend! 🔥 Please join me at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books on Saturday, April 26 at 11:20am for High Intensity, Even Higher Stakes: Fantastical Worlds and Underworlds in Young Adult Fiction with Sharon Levin, Victoria Aveyard, Ransom Riggs, Brittany N. Williams, Regan Revord & Annabelle Chang at the YA Stage! 🔥 Signing to follow in Signing Area 9.

Kirkus' Best Books of the 21st Century (So Far)

3/31/2025

 
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KINDLING is one of Kirkus Reviews' Best Books of the 21st Century (So Far)! 🔥 Thank you so much to Kirkus for including Kindling on this list of truly incredible YA titles. What an honor! Find the full list and get some TBR inspiration here.

Kindling is a LA Times Book Prize Finalist in Young Adult Literature!

2/19/2025

 
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Kindling is a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Young Adult Literature! I’m so thrilled to see this novel included in such a compelling line-up alongside titles like Looking for Smoke by K.A. Cobell, Bright Red Fruit by Safia Elhillo, Shut up, This is Serious by Carolina Ixta, and The Color of a Lie by Kim Johnson. Congrats to all the finalists, and huge thanks to the LA Times and the panel of judges for this amazing honor! If you’re looking for more great reads, be sure to check out the full list of finalists. A limited number of tickets are available for the awards ceremony on April 25, but general admission to the LA Times Festival of Books April 26-27 is free, so mark your calendars if you’re in SoCal for a wonderful lineup of events!

Booklist Editors' Choice: Books for Youth, 2024

12/10/2024

 
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Some more happy news! KINDLING made Booklist's Editors' Choice: Books for Youth, 2024! Thanks to the staff, reviewers, and Allie Stevens for the extra shout-out: "The characters’ lives are threaded together with the most careful, nuanced exploration of different and rippling effects of violence. The kindling will have you inescapably wrapped up in their tale before you even realize it." Check out the complete list here!

Kirkus Reviews' Best Young Adult Books of 2024

12/9/2024

 
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KINDLING is one of Kirkus Reviews’ Best Young Adult Books of 2024! 🔥 It has been such a thrill seeing the end-of-the-year love for this story. Thank you so much to the staff and readers for this recognition! See the full list here!

School Library Journal Best Young Adult Books 2024

12/3/2024

 
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KINDLING is one of School Library Journal’s Best Young Adult Books of 2024! 🎉 It’s such an honor to be included on this list of excellent titles—thank you so much to the staff and reviewers for this recognition!

A Gift Guide to Books by Traci Chee

12/2/2024

 
Want to gift one of my books to a reader in your life? ⭐ Swipe through for a handy-dandy gift guide to all my novels! 👉 Find them at your favorite local retailer or at the links here: KINDLING, 1000 STEPS, WE ARE NOT FREE, THE READER TRILOGY. 🎁

Indigo Best Books of 2024

11/13/2024

 
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KINDLING made Indigo’s Best Books of 2024! 🔥 Thanks so much to Indigo’s staff and readers for including KINDLING among such wonderful titles!

The House Where Death Lives Launches Today!

8/6/2024

 
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🎉 Happy book day to THE HOUSE WHERE DEATH LIVES, edited by my friend Alex Brown! I’m so excited to be part of this amazing YA horror anthology, filled with stories about what it’s like to be haunted. 👻 Start in the attic with Courtney Gould's “Good Morning, Georgia,” then head down the stairs to the second-floor hallway for my story, “Vanishing Point.” Later, check out “What Lies in Silence” by Justine Winans on the first floor and “A Helping Hand” by Linsey Miller while out on the grounds!

🎉 On my newsletter, I’m talking about the writing process for “Vanishing Point,” showing how I take inspiration from other pieces of literature and extrapolate lessons that I can apply to my own craft. Part I of this two-part series is up today--check it out via my SubStack!

🎉 The NorCal launch party for THE HOUSE WHERE DEATH LIVES is happening this Saturday, 8/10 at
Books Inc. Alameda! Join me, Alex Brown, Sandra Proudman, and Gina Chen for a fun & spooky panel moderated by Tara Sim! RSVP & order link are here—hope to see you this weekend!

Starred SLJ Review for Kindling

2/20/2024

 
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⭐⭐⭐⭐ FOUR STARS ⭐⭐⭐⭐

It's real! KINDLING has received a fourth starred review! School Library Journal calls it, "A heartrending, must-read fantasy about youth searching for home and learning to survive a world not designed for them." This review highlights so many of the ways I hoped this book would reach readers, from the power dynamics between young people and the previous generations' most entrenched institutions to the way that reflects on the uncertainty of our current world and the fights we are fighting now for a future we may never see. Thank you so much to School Library Journal for seeing and recognizing KINDLING. Full review to come.
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