Exclusive: Vol. 2 of The Weirn Books Is Coming in October | News
We’ve got some big news this morning: In October 2024, JY, the middle-grade imprint of Yen Press, will publish The Weirn Books: The Ghost and the Stolen Dragon, the second volume of Svetlana Chmakova’s series about a middle school for supernatural students and their familiars. The first volume, Be Wary of the Silent Woods, was published in 2020, and the series draws on some of the concepts Chmakova came up with for her earlier YA series, Nightschool (see my interview with her for more about how she developed the characters and ideas).
Chmakova has been busy with her other series, the Berrybrook Middle School books, but now she has returned to The Weirn Books with a new story:
After her terrible adventures in the silent woods, Na’ya’s world seems to have returned to normal…that is, except for the nightmares that keep haunting her. What she needs is the power to protect everyone in case the evil scientist returns, and she has the perfect solution—she’ll turn into a dragon, once and for all! With help from Ailis and Jasper, everything seems to be going according to plan. But what’s that dark shadow slithering around the spell-casting range…?
“As a lifelong dragon fan/nerd, I have been longing my entire professional life to get to draw a dragon in my own work, and that time has finally come!” says Chmakova said in a statement accompanying the announcement. “The Weirn Books: The Ghost and the Stolen Dragon is not just a fun adventure—it’s also another glimpse into the vast mythology and world of The Weirn Books as I see it in my head, and I hope my readers will be as excited to read it as I was to write it.”
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Brigid Alverson, the editor of the Good Comics for Kids blog, has been reading comics since she was 4. She has an MFA in printmaking and has worked as a book editor, a newspaper reporter, and assistant to the mayor of a small city. In addition to editing GC4K, she is a regular columnist for SLJ, a contributing editor at ICv2, an editor at Smash Pages, and a writer for Publishers Weekly. Brigid is married to a physicist and has two daughters. She was a judge for the 2012 Eisner Awards.
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