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1 month ago | 
hbook.com | Karen Boss |Celia Perez |Adrienne L. Pettinelli |Rachel Payne
When I joined the editorial team at Charlesbridge Publishing in Watertown, Massachusetts, in 2012 as an editorial assistant, I was still a full-time graduate student at the Center for the Study of Children’s Literature at Simmons College (now University). I had returned to school after working fifteen years in higher education and the nonprofit sector. At the midpoint of my master’s program, Yolanda Scott (then Charlesbridge’s editorial director, now its publisher) brought me on board.
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1 month ago | 
hbook.com | Patrick Gall |Martha V. Parravano |Michelle Lee |Adrienne L. Pettinelli
Song of a Blackbird by Maria van Lieshout; illus. by the authorMiddle School, High School First Second 256 pp. 1/25 9781250869814 $25.99Paper ed. 9781250869821 $17.99e-book ed. 9781250412119 $11.99This deeply personal and poetic graphic novel illustrates the heroic actions of everyday Dutch people as they resisted the Nazi regime, as well as the lingering trauma inherited by subsequent generations.
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1 month ago | 
hbook.com | Elissa Gershowitz |Celia Perez |Adrienne L. Pettinelli
FeaturesBetween Fiction and Reality by Cathryn M. MercierThe playground of metafiction in picture books. Reality ReimaginedWe asked fourteen sci-fi/fantasy authors how reality shapes their work.
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2 months ago | 
hbook.com | Adrienne L. Pettinelli |Sarah Ellis |Martha V. Parravano
This Is the Year by Gloria MuñozHigh School Holiday 368 pp. 1/25 9780823458363 $18.99e-book ed. 9780823462186 $11.99In this evocative near-future science fiction novel, high school senior Juli is still reeling from the death of her twin sister, Ofe, a year earlier.
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2 months ago | 
hbook.com | Eboni Njoku |Adrienne L. Pettinelli |Sarah Ellis |Martha V. Parravano
I Am the Swarm by Hayley ChewinsHigh School Viking 336 pp. 3/25 9780593623862 $19.99e-book ed. 9780593623879 $10.99In this Cape Town–set verse novel, each woman in the Strand family gains magical abilities when she turns fifteen. As Nell Strand approaches her fifteenth birthday, she is painfully aware of the potential dangers that can accompany this “gift.” Her older sister, Mora, carries songs underneath her skin—and has been hospitalized for trying to cut the music out.
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2 months ago | 
hbook.com | Patrick Gall |Adrienne L. Pettinelli |Sarah Ellis |Martha V. Parravano
A Home for Unusual Monsters [Kairos Files]by Shaun David HutchinsonIntermediate, Middle School Labyrinth Road/Random 288 pp. 2/25 9780593646335 $17.99e-book ed. 9780593646359 $10.99This sequel to The School for Invisible Boys (rev. 1/24) shifts its focus to twelve-year-old Samantha Osbourne, budding agent for the clandestine paranormal research group Kairos, as she navigates adolescence, grief, and monsters.
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2 months ago | 
hbook.com | S. R. Toliver |Adrienne L. Pettinelli |Sarah Ellis |Martha V. Parravano
Abeni and the Kingdom of Gold by P. Djèlí ClarkIntermediate, Middle School Starscape/Tor 368 pp. 4/25 9781250825858 $19.99e-book ed. 9781250825865 $11.99In this compelling sequel to Abeni’s Song (rev. 9/23), Abeni and her companions continue their quest to find the elder spirits who might protect Asha (the first book’s benevolent witch who here has been reborn as a child) from the malevolent Witch Priest.
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2 months ago | 
hbook.com | Adrienne L. Pettinelli |Sarah Ellis |Martha V. Parravano
The Bad Idea and Other Stories [Earl & Worm]by Greg Pizzoli; illus. by the authorPrimary Knopf 72 pp. 4/25 9780593649664 $10.99Library ed. 9780593649671 $13.99e-book ed. 9780593649688 $6.99In the first of three episodic chapters in this series debut, Worm is irritated by her new neighbor, Earl, a bird. “Why is he up so early?
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2 months ago | 
hbook.com | Shenwei Chang |Adrienne L. Pettinelli |Sarah Ellis |Martha V. Parravano
On Again, Awkward Again by Erin Entrada Kelly and Kwame MbaliaHigh School Amulet/Abrams 272 pp. 4/25 9781419775635 $19.99e-book ed. 9798887073392 $17.99A clumsy accident and an IBS incident lead to an unlikely meet-cute between Pacy Mercado and Cecil Holloway, two high school freshmen whose quirks make them stand out.
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2 months ago | 
hbook.com | Elissa Gershowitz |Adrienne L. Pettinelli |Sarah Ellis |Martha V. Parravano
Once for Yes by Allie MillingtonIntermediate, Middle School Feiwel 272 pp. 3/25 9781250326980 $17.99e-book ed. 9781250326973 $9.99Millington’s debut (Olivetti, rev. 5/24) was about a sentient typewriter, and this offering begins with the observations of the Odenburgh, an apartment building and one of several narrative perspectives in a quirky and affecting novel. A year after the death of her sister Lina, Prue Laroe is dreading her own upcoming birthday.
