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Pay attention Together with Izzy McKenna by cartoonist Aubrey Nolan is her debut YA graphic novel. Pay attention Together with Izzy McKenna tells the story of 15-year-old Izzy McKenna who, having spent her life wrestling with anxiousness and despair, finds herself uniquely outfitted to avoid wasting her seaside city of Port Juniper from an alien invasion. Lauri Hornik at Penguin/Rocky Pond Books has purchased the graphic novel and Pay attention Together with Izzy McKenna can be printed within the spring of 2025.

Aubrey Nolan posted the information on Instagram, saying “Too many feelings proper now to jot down an actual caption so simply thanks @laurihornik @penguinrandomhouse + Anjali Singh at @pandeliterary I am unable to look ahead to readers to satisfy (and love!) Izzy and her mates. Now, fast break for joyful tears + champagne earlier than it is again to work .” Her agent Anjali Singh at Ayesha Pande Literary dealt with the deal for world rights.
Rocky Pond Books, helmed by Lauri Hornik, longtime writer of Dial Books for Younger Readers, is a Penguin imprint that publishes books for 2 by teen, each fiction and nonfiction, with a give attention to psychological well being and social-emotional studying and on searching for out debut authors and illustrators. Lauri Hornik mentioned, “It has turn into increasingly vital to me to supply books that supply consolation and help. That consolation is perhaps by a stomach chuckle or a beautiful, real expression of what it means to be human, or seeing your self and your tradition depicted on the web page. That help is perhaps by an image ebook that sparks empathy, or an inspiring nonfiction examine a hero or vital second in historical past. And above all, I’m dedicated to publishing psychological well being content material – books that begin conversations, that present a step towards therapeutic, and that present readers they don’t seem to be alone. I am so excited to now be dedicating myself full-time to modifying, and thus bringing extra of those much-needed books to children and teenagers.”