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Media Kit for download
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Selected Interviews
- Stacey Horan's podcast, Bookshop at the End of the Internet
- Booktober Interview: Yvonne Ventresca Talks About Her Thrilling New Book, by Camille Espiritu at The Young Folks
- Library at the End of the World Podcast about Pandemic
- Huffington Post Pandemic Q&A by Mary Pauline Lowry
- Cynsations New Voice: Yvonne Ventresca on Pandemic
Praise for Black Flowers, White Lies
"This suspenseful psychological thriller definitely won’t disappoint." --BuzzFeed, 23 YA Books That, Without A Doubt, You'll Want To Read This Fall
ALAN named Black Flowers, Whites Lies an October pick: "Ventresca has carefully plotted a variety of twists and turns in this engrossing mystery that doesn’t let up until the final pages. " --Jeffery Harr, Assembly on Literature for Adolescents of the NCTE
"I raced through Black Flowers, White Lies in a single sitting. What a twisty thrill-ride!" --April Henry, New York Times-bestselling author
". . . readers will be guessing up to the very end of this riveting page-turner. . . Young adult readers will love this story, and librarians serving teens should have it in their collection." --VOYA
Ventresca "does an excellent job of capturing an independent bookstore and Hoboken. . . The tone remains true for young adults: it's neither the cutesy ghosts with eyelashes intended for younger readers nor terrifying succubae that will take root in adult nightmares." --Jacqueline Cutler, NJ Star Ledger
Praise for Pandemic
PANDEMIC wins the 2015 Atlantic region Crystal Kite Award from the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators! Here's Yvonne (left) and Leeza Hernandez, the NJ SCBWI Regional Advisor, after presenting Yvonne with the award at the NJ Regional Conference.
An excerpt from School Library Journal by Karen Jensen: "Pandemic is an interesting book because it is about a pandemic, but it also turns out to be a book about the effects of sexual violence on its main character, something I was not expecting at all. I thought that it handled several of the issues really well and was quite pleased with the way that Ventresca is able to show the long term effects of sexual violence on our main character in a unique situation."
"I can honestly say this is one of my favorite reads thus far this year and easily ranks in my top 25 favorite disaster novels. Yeah, it is that good." -- Jim Cobb of Survival Weekly
"In all, Pandemic is a fast and gripping story. . . .The plot never failed to impress me; there was always a surprise around the corner. I loved how I could just jump right into the story due to the fact that it felt so real! . . . I thoroughly enjoyed this book and I would not hesitate to recommend it to those who have read Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer or other apocalyptic stories. I would also give it a rating of 5/5 stars!" --Sophie C., Teen Ink
"Ventresca gives Lilianna a compulsive need to prep for disaster (a coping skill after her assault) and a father who works for a journal called Infectious Diseases. This ups the believability factor and helps the reader focus on the action and characters. As is to be expected in an apocalyptic novel, there is no shortage of tension or death and a few gruesomely dead bodies, but teen disaster fans will likely appreciate that the high schoolers are portrayed as good, helpful, yet imperfect people. This fast read will appeal to fans of Susan Beth Pfeffer’s Life As We Knew It (2006), even though the type of apocalypse is different." --Booklist
"This is an engrossing apocalyptic story, told through Lil’s eyes and newsfeeds as her neighborhood, then the East Coast, and finally the entire U.S. buckles to its knees as the pandemic spreads. . . . Themes of friendship and coming together in a crisis carry the novel." --School Library Journal
"Lil must come to terms with that most basic of questions: when my safety and survival are at stake, do I work to help others or do I help myself only?" -- J.L. Powers of the Pirate Tree: Social Justice and Children's Literature
"I can honestly say this is one of my favorite reads thus far this year and easily ranks in my top 25 favorite disaster novels. Yeah, it is that good." -- Jim Cobb of Survival Weekly
"In all, Pandemic is a fast and gripping story. . . .The plot never failed to impress me; there was always a surprise around the corner. I loved how I could just jump right into the story due to the fact that it felt so real! . . . I thoroughly enjoyed this book and I would not hesitate to recommend it to those who have read Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer or other apocalyptic stories. I would also give it a rating of 5/5 stars!" --Sophie C., Teen Ink
"Ventresca gives Lilianna a compulsive need to prep for disaster (a coping skill after her assault) and a father who works for a journal called Infectious Diseases. This ups the believability factor and helps the reader focus on the action and characters. As is to be expected in an apocalyptic novel, there is no shortage of tension or death and a few gruesomely dead bodies, but teen disaster fans will likely appreciate that the high schoolers are portrayed as good, helpful, yet imperfect people. This fast read will appeal to fans of Susan Beth Pfeffer’s Life As We Knew It (2006), even though the type of apocalypse is different." --Booklist
"This is an engrossing apocalyptic story, told through Lil’s eyes and newsfeeds as her neighborhood, then the East Coast, and finally the entire U.S. buckles to its knees as the pandemic spreads. . . . Themes of friendship and coming together in a crisis carry the novel." --School Library Journal
"Lil must come to terms with that most basic of questions: when my safety and survival are at stake, do I work to help others or do I help myself only?" -- J.L. Powers of the Pirate Tree: Social Justice and Children's Literature