Children’s Literature News March 2026
Children’s book news for March 2026: Carnegies shortlists, London Book Fair inclusion work, new school library awards, big festival changes, plus prize winners and World Book Day reading events.
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Scott Reintgen is a US author of young adult and middle-grade fiction. He is described by his publishers as a former public school teacher, and as a New York Times bestselling writer.
His debut YA novel, Nyxia, was published on 12 September 2017 by Crown Books for Young Readers (Threshold in the UK). The book later appeared on the New York Public Library’s Top 50 Teen Books of the Year list for 2017, and its audiobook received an AudioFile Earphones Award in 2017.
Reintgen’s subsequent YA releases include Nyxia Unleashed (2018) and Nyxia Uprising (2019), completing The Nyxia Triad.
Nyxia was published on 12 September 2017.
Children’s book news for March 2026: Carnegies shortlists, London Book Fair inclusion work, new school library awards, big festival changes, plus prize winners and World Book Day reading events.
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