Last week Scholastic celebrated PUSH's fifth anniversary with in-house readings by a variety of its authors. Seen here (l. to r.): Billy Merrell (Talking in the Dark), Coe Booth (Tyrell), David Levithan (founder and editor of PUSH), Thu-Huong Ha (Hail Caesar), Brian James (Dirty Liar), Samantha Schutz (I Don't Want to Be Crazy) and Eirreann Corrigan (Ordinary Ghosts).
From Publishers Weekly:

"Five years ago this month, Scholastic launched its PUSH imprint, spearheaded by David Levithan, who is now editorial director of Scholastic Press and PUSH. Focused on publishing cutting-edge books for teens written by first-time authors, the line was an editorial experiment that has clearly worked. PUSH has published more than 20 titles by such authors as Markus Zusak, Kevin Brooks, Patricia McCormick and Chris Wooding, and there are more than 1.2 million copies of its books in print.
To commemorate the imprint's fifth anniversary, the publisher is releasing This Is PUSH: New Stories from the Edge, an anthology of tales by PUSH authors edited by Levithan. And in March, Levithan and four authors of new PUSH books will hit the road, visiting five cities (New York, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Atlanta and Miami).
Levithan, who began at Scholastic as an intern at the age of 19, was an associate editor at the house when the issue of a new teen imprint first came up. "I asked the question of what kind of teen publishing we wanted to do at Scholastic, and that question turned into a four-year conversation," he recalls. When the conversation finally wrapped up, he says, "We took the radical approach of going with first-time writers and being on the cutting edge of teen publishing. Our idea was to give aspiring authors a chance and to be a magnet to attract people who hadn't dreamed of writing. We gave them a space to do that. As a result we have a largely very young, very diverse group of PUSH authors.""