Kate Fussner

A collage of twenty-one 2025 middle grade and young adult book covers. Books featured include This Is The Year, Glitch Girl!, Top Heavy, Lilac and The Switchback, The Girl In The Walls, Safe Harbor, The Extraordinary Orbit of Alex Ramirez, Under The Neon Lights, The Leaving Room, Octopus moon, 13 Ways To Say Goodbye, Zarina Divided, Truth Is, Where The Heart Should Be, (S)kin, Everything is Poison, Radiant, The Burning Season, Island Creatures, The Siren and The Star and Please Pay Attention.

🌼 42 2025 Middle Grade and Young Adult Novels-In-Verse 🌼
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Thank you for including 13 WAYS!

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Image reads "Middle Grade" and features the books 🏳️‍🌈 TODAY I AM: 10 STORIES OF BELONGING edited by Robin Stevenson, QUEER HISTORY A TO Z: 100 YEARS OF LGBTQ+ ACTIVISM by Robin Stevenson, THE SONG OF US by Kate Fussner, and 13 WAYS TO SAY GOODBYE by Kate Fussner. The P.S. Literary Agency logo appears at bottom

It's Pride Month!
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Indulge us while we tell you about the nonfiction and fiction titles we've represented that will inspire and enchant middle grade readers!

We are a group of LGBTQIA+ middle grade book creators who are hosting this giveaway to support the LGBTQIA+ community this Pride month. By entering this giveaway, you could win a copy of all the LGBTQIA+ middle grade books below!

Details: tinyurl.com/mg-giveaway

Thank you so much for reading and sharing!

😍 Fundraising Auction spotlight:

@katefussner.bsky.social offers a signed copy of 13 Ways to Say Goodbye!

Auction is live 4/15-4/30. All proceeds fund our #neurodiverse #kidlit @highlightsfound.bsky.social scholarship

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Ahhhh thank you!!!

Morning reading: 13 Ways to Say Goodbye by @katefussner.bsky.social!!! Finally getting to read this magical book and the only thing that would make it better is if I actually were in Paris reading this book….

Thank you so much!!

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So honored to see 13 WAYS TO SAY GOODBYE on this list of most anticipated queer MG books!

A #poem on the first day of the year.

Nikki Giovanni wrote some of my favorite poems to teach, read, and learn from. What a life she lived. What lucky readers we were to be around to witness her brilliance. ❤️

Incredibly grateful for this first grade review for my next book, 13 WAYS TO SAY GOODBYE.

In 2023, I pre-ordered 12 sapphic books for my wife’s Xmas present, one per month. It brought her JOY…I’d love to do it again! So, help me, what sapphic books are you most excited about for 2025? Her faves include Karelia Stetz-Waters, Olivia Waite, Ashley Herring Blake, Amy Spalding… #sapphicreads

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13 Ways to Say Goodbye A novel-in-verse about life after loss, 13 Ways to Say Goodbye beautifully renders the power of sibling bonds, the depth of grief, and the strength of learning to love again, perfect for fans of Every...

Lots of new followers today which is exciting! So quick intro: I’m Kate, I write queer MG Novels-in-Verse and my next one, 13 WAYS TO SAY GOODBYE (HarperCollins 3/18/35) is a story of grief, sibling loss, first love, ghosts, magic, and Paris. www.harpercollins.com/products/13-...

Here’s where to find me at #NCTE. Hope to see y’all there!

Yes! I’m with HarperCollins. ISBN 9780063256989

My second MG novel-in-verse, 13 WAYS TO SAY GOODBYE, a story of grief, sibling loss, first love, magic, ghosts, and Paris is out in March 18,2025!

Thanks for the shoutout! 💕

Here are some #MGLit novels-in-verse I've read and can highly recommend! 📚👍

LOUDER THAN HUNGER by @mrschureads.bsky.social
THE SONG OF US by @katefussner.bsky.social
WHEN YOU KNOW WHAT I KNOW by Sonja K Solter
OTHER WORDS FOR HOME by Jasmine Warga

Catch me at #NCTE later this week!! Will I see you there?

I wrote an entire novel in the month of November. So excited and so ready to take a nap.

I'm at 45,222 words. I'm going to make it to 50k by Thursday. I have never had a novel pour out of me so fast, so clearly. Like my heart has a direct line to the source of this story. I am so grateful.

I've crossed over 40k words in my NaNoWriMo project!!!!! This book is so much fun!

I updated my website today and I like to think that somewhere @missdahlelama.dahliaadler.com cheered for me. 🌈

Incredibly grateful for THE SONG OF US making the Boston Globe’s holiday gift giving guide, thanks to PaperCuts JP!! www.bostonglobe.com/2023/11/16/m...

I don't want to jinx it, but I'm on a NaNoWriMo roll like I've never experienced before. Words pouring out of me. Close to 28,000 words already and I've written every single day this month. The key this time around? JOY. The whole book brings my heart such joy.