Walden Pond Press

Walden Pond Press publishes 'middle-grade classics'.[2] For example, Root Magic (published January 2021) by author Eden Royce,[3] and The Troubled Girls of Dragomir Academy (published October 2021) by author Anne Ursu,[4] are both in development by Walden Media.

Walden Pond Press publishes a small, targeted list of middle grade book titles every year. Notable titles include Cosmic by Frank Cottrell Boyce (2010); The Fourth Stall by Chris Rylander (2011); Breadcrumbs by Anne Ursu (2011); The Hero’s Guide series by Christopher Healy (2012-2015); Ms. Bixby’s Last Day by John David Anderson (2016); National Book Award Longlist winners The Real Boy by Anne Ursu (2013) and Orphan Island by Laurel Snyder (2017); A Boy Called Bat and sequels by Elana K. Arnold (2017-2020); York: The Shadow Cipher and sequels by Laura Ruby (2019-2021); Love Sugar Magic and sequels by Anna Meriano (2018-2020); and A Perilous Journey of Danger & Mayhem: The Dastardly Plot and sequels by Christopher Healy (2018-2020), among others.

Walden Pond Press is Walden Media’s second co-publishing venture with a major US publishing house. From 2004 to 2008 Walden Media worked across all imprints at Penguin Young Readers Group, publishing the Newbery Honor-winning[5] Savvy by first-time author Ingrid Law (Dial/Walden Media), Mike Lupica’s The Comeback Kids series (Philomel/Walden Media), Lauren St. John’s The White Giraffe series (Dial/Walden Media), and Michael Reisman’s Simon Bloom series (Dutton/Walden Media), among other titles.[6][7]

The publisher has published books by authors including Paul Adam, Steven Knight, Anne Ursu, Kevin Emerson, Jarrett J. Krosoczka, John David Anderson, Frank Cottrell Boyce, Elana K. Arnold, Laura Ruby, and Laurel Snyder.

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