Adaptation News: Warner Bros. Options 'Sky Is Everywhere' by Jandy Nelson!

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I know many of you will be thrilled about this news: Warner Bros. and Di Novi Films have optioned the movie rights to The Sky Is Everywhere by Jandy Nelson!

The Hollywood Reports: The move continues the studio’s relationship with Nelson as Warners previously optioned the author’s 2014 hit YA book I’ll Give You the Sun.

Denise Di Novi and Alison Greenspan will produce. Nelson will exec produce.

Sky, published in 2010, tells of a high school student who is dealing with the sudden loss of her sister. In her grieving state, she finds herself drawn to two men: her sister’s boyfriend, where the shared loss binds them in ways she doesn’t understand, and a new arrival who offers a bright hope for the future.

The novel helped launch Nelson, a former lit agent, and the book was translated into more than a dozen languages. It also was longlisted for the Carnegie Medal and earned praise from fellow YA authors such as Gayle Forman.

Julia Spiro, the exec who is already overseeing Sun, will also shepherd Sky.

Sun, Jandy’s second novel, was published last fall and went on to become a New York Times best-seller and the winner of the 2015 Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature, one of the literary world’s most prestigious honors for YA books.

Natalie Krinsky is currently adapting that novel, which Di Novi and Greenspan are also producing. Di Novi, a longtime producer, is in the middle of shooting her directorial debut, Unforgettable, a thriller starring Katherine Heigl and Rosario Dawson.

Nelson is repped by Paradigm and Holly McGhee of Pippin Properties.

Waiting on Wednesday: I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson

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I'll Give You the Sun

Author: Jandy Nelson

Release Date: September 16th 2014

Publisher: Dial Books for Young Readers

A brilliant, luminous story of first love, family, loss, and betrayal for fans of John Green, David Levithan, and Rainbow Rowell

Jude and her brother, Noah, are incredibly close twins. At thirteen, isolated Noah draws constantly and is falling in love with the charismatic boy next door, while daredevil Jude surfs and cliff-dives and wears red-red lipstick and does the talking for both of them. But three years later, Jude and Noah are barely speaking. Something has happened to wreck the twins in different and divisive ways . . . until Jude meets a cocky, broken, beautiful boy, as well as an unpredictable new mentor. The early years are Noah's story to tell. The later years are Jude's. What the twins don't realize is that they each have only half the story, and if they could just find their way back to one another, they’d have a chance to remake their world.

This radiant, fully alive, sometimes very funny novel from the critically acclaimed author of The Sky Is Everywhere will leave you breathless and teary and laughing—often all at once.

"A wild, beautiful, and profoundly moving novel. Jandy Nelson’s writing is so electric, so alive, her pages practically glow in the dark." Ransom Riggs, New York Times bestselling author of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children and Hollow City

"Jandy Nelson is a rare, explosive talent, and one of the best writers working today. Her prose is vivid, breathtaking, and drenched in passion, and her stories remind me why words can change the world." -Tahereh Mafi, New York Times bestselling author of the Shatter Me series.

"I love this book. Jandy Nelson is my new writing hero. Read this book. She'll be your favorite author as well." Holly Goldberg Sloan, New York Times bestselling author of Counting by 7s

Jandy Nelson’s writing is poetic and mesmerizing. More importantly, Nelson weaves a novel that seeps into your bones like fire on a cold day . . . I’ll Give You the Sun is a novel that promises a story like nothing else and then delivers it.” Garret Freymann-Weyr, author of Printz Honor book, My Heartbeat

"An extraordinary book! I've never read anything like it. Lyrical-unique-passionate-magical-tragic-hopeful--Nelson's characters will fly off the page and into your heart." --Nancy Garden, author of Annie on my Mind.