Superheroes come to us in many forms: comics, movies, TV shows. But next year we'll be seeing four of the biggest DC Comics names in an all new frontier: YA novels.
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Mashreads can exclusively reveal that Wonder Woman, Batman, Superman and Catwoman will each get their own young adult book starting in 2017.
DC Entertainment and Warner Bros. Consumer Products has partnered with Random House Books for Young Readers to bring four of the most iconic characters to life.
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Random House has brought on a super league of writers to do the characters justice, all of them New York Times bestselling authors. There's Leigh Bardugo (The Grisha Trilogy) on Wonder Woman, Marie Lu (The Young Elites) on Batman, Matt de la Peña (Mexican Whiteboy and The Living) on Superman, and Sarah J. Maas (The Thrones of Glass series) on Catwoman.
The books will be released in that order, starting with Wonder Woman in August 2017 -- a month after the planned release of the Wonder Woman movie.
Random House says all four novels "will embrace themes of good vs. evil, coming-of-age romance, and superheroes from unexpected places who have the determination to achieve seemingly impossible dreams."
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In the meantime, you can read Random House's most recent foray into the DC world, Wonder Woman at Super Hero High, a middle grade series by Lisa Yee that follows the most badass female hero of the DC universe in her high school years.