Seven-time Grammy Award-winning band Coldplay (pictured, via) will release a song called “Atlas” for the Catching Fire soundtrack.

Lead singer Chris Martin tweeted a photo of the handwritten lyrics (embedded below),  lyrics based on the second book in Suzanne Collins‘ Hunger Games series.

“Atlas” will be released as a digital download on August 26th.

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Last night, actress Lily Collins appeared in New York City to promote her upcoming film, Mortal Instruments: City of Bones. She answered questions, showed the trailer, and shared two clips.

Collins (pictured, via) revealed that Oscar-nominated actress Sigourney Weaver may join the cast of Mortal Instruments: City of Ashes. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Weaver “will play the ruthless leader of the Shadowhunters who will stop at nothing to destroy the man who killed her son.”

Thus far, no other new cast members have been announced. Collins and City of Bones co-star Jamie Campbell Bower have already confirmed that they will reprise their roles for the second installment of the film franchise. Shooting for the City of Ashes movie begins in September.

18-year-old ballet dancer Michaela DePrince has signed a book deal to write her memoir.

DePrince appeared in the 2011 documentary, First Position. Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers will publish the book in fall 2014.

Executive editor Erin Clarke negotiated the deal with Full Circle Literary agent Adriana Dominguez. DePrince’s adoptive mother, Elaine, will co-write the book.

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Lionsgate has released a new trailer for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire film adaptation. We’ve embedded the video above–what do you think?

The trailer offers fans glimpses of Panem’s rebellious uprisings and a first look at some of the new characters training for the 75th Quarter Quell event. It premiered during a Hunger Games film panel at this year’s San Diego Comic Con.

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As she prepared for her own wedding, former Bookish YA editor Margaret Bristol shared matrimonial wisdom that she picked up from young adult novels.

Here’s what she learned from The Selection by Kiera Cass:

When you open yourself to new experiences, you never know what you might find. America would have never have met handsome prince Maxon if she hadn’t signed up for a “Bachelor”-style competition for his hand in marriage. While Mer is totally resistant at first, the warmest parts of this novel are when Maxon starts winning her over.

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Lauren Oliver revealed the cover for her new young adult novel on Goodreads this morning. What do you think?

Oliver recorded two videos of herself reading the first three chapters of this book. During her introduction in the first video, the author explains that this book deals with the theme of fear.

Panic will come out in March 2014. The Wrap reports that Universal Pictures recently won a bidding war for the film rights to the book in a seven-figure deal.

Total children’s and young adult trade sales sagged nearly 25 percent in the first quarter of 2013 compared to the same period last year when The Hunger Games swept through movie theaters.

However, as you can see by the Association of American Publishers’ (AAP) chart for children’s & YA sales from 2011-2013 embedded above, these sales were 22 percent higher than the same period in 2011.

The AAP has released its StatShot report from March 2013, looking at book sales for the first quarter of the year. Overall, total adult trade nonfiction and fiction sales rose 3.3 percent for the first quarter of 2013 (totalling more than $1 billion). The StatShot report included data from 1,192 publishers.

Rooney Mara and Martin Sheen will star in an adaptation of Andy Mulligan‘s young adult novel, Trash.

David Fickling Books, a UK-based company, published this book back in October 2010. Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Stephen Daldry will direct and Richard Curtis wrote the script. Here’s more from Deadline:

Sheen will play Father Juilliard, and Mara will play Olivia, an NGO worker, in the tale of three poverty-stricken boys (played by newcomers Rickson Tevez, Eduardo Luis and Gabriel Weinstein) who discover something unusual, mysterious and dangerous in a city dump in the Third World-set story.

Deadline reports that filmmaker Francis Lawrence is hoping to cast Academy Award-nominated actress Julianne Moore for the final two Hunger Games films.

Moore might play Alma Coin in the two-part adaptation of Suzanne Collins‘ Mockingjay.

Many Hunger Games fans would characterize Coin as a pragmatic, controlling, and ruthless politician. Moore (pictured, via) won a Golden Globe for portraying an infamous political personality in the HBO movie, Game Change; former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.

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Chelsey Flood has signed a deal with Simon & Schuster’s Atheneum Books for Young Readers to publish her debut young adult novel.

The UK division of Simon & Schuster Children’s Books released the hardcover edition of Infinite Sky in February 2013. The US edition is set to come out in May 2014. Atheneum executive editor Namrata Tripathi acquired this title and will edit. Here’s more from the release:

In Infinite Sky, thirteen-year-old Iris has recently been abandoned by her mother, and is left with only her father and her older brother, Sam, to call family. Two months after her mother’s departure, Iris watches a family of gypsies set up an illegal camp in the paddock by her house.  The gypsy boy, Trick, is restless and warm and full of life—he’ll settle when he’s in his grave, he tells Iris—and she feels as though she understands him completely.