Team LQ has set a goal to sell 100k books by September 1. That’s right! Team LQ is launching a grass-roots social campaign to help us fundraise in partnership with. Starting now, we've given ourselves the goal of selling 100K books by September.

Y'all, I have never seen a publisher come out of the gate with so many fabulous titles!! Their percentage of awards and award nominations is PHENOMENAL!! And because it’s easier to be brave with a true friend by your side. A summer when everything changes because you’re seventeen, and it’s time to be bold. And a determination to not just accept things as they are anymore. Still, there's no denying what all three girls have in common: Families with great fissures that are about to break wide open. Especially since Peggy’s new best friend, Lisette, is a wealthy banker’s daughter. That didn’t matter to them then, but now, ten years, hard miles, and a world war later, Ginny Rose’s family is back in town and their differences feel somehow starker. Peggy’s family owned the farm, and Ginny Rose’s were pickers, escaping the Oklahoma dust storms. Ginny Rose and Peggy were best friends at seven, picking peaches on hot summer days. The Peach Rebellion invites readers into California’s Central Valley during the 1940s for a heart-swelling historical tale of friendship, family, and the power of sisterhood to help heal the wounds of the past and step boldly into the future. Every year since 1989, the Beatty Award honors the author of a distinguished book for young adults that best promotes an awareness of California and its people.

The Peach Rebellion, written by Wendelin Van Draanen, and published by Random House Children's Books, a division of the Penguin Group, has been selected as the 2023 recipient of the California Library Association’s John and Patricia Beatty Award. Or, as we Flemish/Dutch speakers would say Proficiat Wendelin!!

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