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There's still time to shop the special American Library Association & Svetlana Chmakova CRUSH collaboration on the ALA store website! Add a touch of the Berrybrook Middle School universe to any collection today:

bookmark: http://bit.ly/ALAcrushbm

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Speed drawing of Jorge and Jazmine by Svetlana Chmakova!

Crush, Vol. 1 is on sale now.

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NEW YORK, NY (3/18/2019) – JY, the middle grade imprint of Yen Press, LLC, announced today the latest installment in Svetlana Chmakova’s BERRYBROOK MIDDLE SCHOOL series. DIARY, the fourth volume of the award-winning graphic novel franchise, represents an exciting variation that, in addition to exclusive short stories featuring familiar faces from Berrybrook, doubles as a real journal featuring a “One Sketch a Day” section, stickers, and free note pages with fun journal entries from one of the main characters.

Simultaneous to the standalone release of DIARY, the latest book will also be included in the BERRYBROOK MIDDLE SCHOOL BOX SET, a collection of all four of the Berrybrook stories, including AWKWARD, BRAVE, and CRUSH. Perfect for the holiday gift season, the BERRYBROOK MIDDLE SCHOOL BOX SET is the ideal introduction of these books to new readers.

From its initial release with AWKWARD in 2015, Berrybrook Middle School has garnered critical acclaim, earning an Eisner nomination and winning the 2nd Annual Dwayne McDuffie Award for Kids’ Comics. The subsequent books, BRAVE and CRUSH, have also been well received, securing spots on YALSA’s Top Ten Great Graphic Novels for Teens list. The series has sold almost a million copies to date.

Creator Svetlana Chmakova is an internationally published, award-winning manga/comics author, with more than 10 published books and her work translated in over 13 languages. Born and raised in Russia, she moved to Canada at sixteen-years-old to finish high school and received a Classical Animation diploma from Sheridan College. Her full-length manga and comics series include the fan-favorite romantic comedy DRAMACON, the award-winning urban fantasy NIGHTSCHOOL: THE WEIRN BOOKS and the manga adaptation of The New York Times bestselling WITCH & WIZARD by James Patterson.

Both DIARY and the BERRYBROOK MIDDLE SCHOOL BOX SET are slated for an October 2019 release.

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Zo Zo Zombie, Vol. 3                                                              

by Yasunari Nagatoshi

Watch out–Zombie Boy’s back! Though awkward and sometimes buck naked, Zombie Boy has plenty of charm and wit you’d never expect from a moving corpse. But as adorable as he seems, the little guy’s quite the handful! As spooky adventures continue, the town of Shikabane’s about to get another taste of the kind of real chaos only Zombie Boy can sneeze out!

In stores April 30th!

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Zo Zo Zombie, Vol. 2                                                             

By Yasunari Nagatoshi

“Gutsy” adventures never end with our friend Zombie Boy! He’s got a heart of gold, a sturdy shoulder to lean on, and knows how to give a helping hand-literally. No day is a boring one when you’ve got a zombie on the loose!

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Zo Zo Zombie, Vol. 1                                                            

By Yasunari Nagatoshi

Zombie boy isn’t your average kid, and while being a zombie might not at first seem like an ideal lifestyle, you’d be amazed by what this little guy is capable of. A laugh-out-loud comedy sure to have boys and girls alike rocking in their chairs!

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Little Witch Academia, Vol. 2                                                        

By Yoh Yoshinari / TRIGGER

That’s because magic reeeally is wonderful!!

Akko can’t seem to pass her transformation magic test, which means she can’t participate in the joint-dinner banquet with the prestigious students from Appleton. Having lost confidence, Akko has her eyes set to the northernmost part of campus for the Polaris Spring, which is said to grant witches tremendous power.

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Little Witch Academia, Vol. 1

By Yoh Yoshinari / TRIGGER  

                     REACH OUT YOUR HAND, AND YOUR STORY WILL BEGIN!

Those words changed young Atsuko “Akko” Kagari forever, sparking in her a lifelong dream of becoming a real witch. Now she’s been accepted to the same school as her childhood hero, Shiny Chariot—the prestigious Luna Nova Witchcraft Academy. As the only student to come from a non-magical family, Akko finds herself surrounded by prodigies from around the world, but giving up isn’t in her vocabulary. Whether it’s making friends, proving the doubters wrong, or just flying on a broom, Akko is going to make her fantasy a reality!

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CRUSH  by Svetlana Chmakova      

                 Following the overwhelming success of AWKWARD and BRAVE, Svetlana Chmakova’s award winning Berrybrook Middle School series continues with its next installment – CRUSH!

Jorge seems to have it all together. He’s big enough that nobody really messes with him, but he’s also a genuinely sweet guy with a solid, reliable group of friends. The only time he ever really feels off his game is when he crosses paths with a certain girl… But when the group dynamic among the boys starts to shift, will Jorge be able to balance what his friends expect of him versus what he actually wants?

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Brave by Svetlana Chmakova      

                 In his daydreams, Jensen is the biggest hero that ever was, saving the world and his friends on a daily basis. But his middle school reality is VERY different–math is hard, getting along with friends is hard…Even finding a partner for the class project is a huge problem when you always get picked last. And the pressure’s on even more once the school newspaper’s dynamic duo, Jenny and Akilah, draw Jensen into the whirlwind of school news, social-experiment projects, and behind-the-scenes club drama. Jensen has always played the middle school game one level at a time, but suddenly, someone’s cranked up the difficulty setting. Will those daring daydreams of his finally work in his favor, or will he have to find real solutions to his real-life problems?

The charming world of Berrybrook Middle School gets a little bigger in this highly anticipated follow-up to Svetlana Chmakova’s award-winning Awkward with a story about a boy who learns his own way of being brave!

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Awkward by Svetlana Chmakova

Cardinal rule #1 for surviving school: Don’t get noticed by the mean kids.

Cardinal rule #2 for surviving school: Seek out groups with similar interests and join them.

On her first day at her new school, Penelope–Peppi–Torres reminds herself of these basics. But when she trips into a quiet boy in the hall, Jaime Thompson, she’s already broken the first rule, and the mean kids start calling her the “nerder girlfriend.” How does she handle this crisis? By shoving poor Jaime and running away!

Falling back on rule two and surrounding herself with new friends in the art club, Peppi still can’t help feeling ashamed about the way she treated Jaime. Things are already awkward enough between the two, but to make matters worse, he’s a member of her own club’s archrivals–the science club! And when the two clubs go to war, Peppi realizes that sometimes you have to break the rules to survive middle school!