Aubrey Hartman

1 month ago | kirkusreviews.com | Ali FitzGerald |Ali Fitzgerald |Peter Brown |Aubrey Hartman |Christopher Cyr

A solid eco-mystery that will please lovers of nature and science fiction alike. A girl goes on a quest to rescue her parents and animal friends from an evil plot. Hiding out in the near-future “Perfect. Animal. Worlds.” (or PAW) Biosphere, 11-year-old Hazel McCrimlisk hopes that learning to speak with the animals will help her locate her scientist parents, who were mysteriously abducted by a monster just over a year ago.

Nov 14, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Christian Cooper |Aubrey Hartman |Tony Keith Jr. |Randy Boyagoda

The Urban Owls: How Flaco and Friends Made the City Their Home Making his picture book debut, Cooper (Better Living Through Birding, for adults) catalogs a handful of wild owls who have taken up residence in New York City, starting with Flaco, the famous Eurasian eagle-owl who escaped from the Central Park Zoo: “He flew and flew and flew! If you’d been stuck in a cage your whole life, wouldn’t you?” Barry the barred owl, a keen hunter, attracts devoted sightseers because of her dependable...

Nov 14, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Randy Boyagoda |Aubrey Hartman |Tony Keith Jr. |Cheryl Hudson

Sixteen-year-old Sabel is puzzled by tonight’s family meal, which seems to be a special spread of her and her four siblings’ favorite foods. Sickness and savagery have toppled the world, their home country is plagued by bombings, the president is dead, thugs roam the streets, and goods like this feast are scarce. Following dinner, a black bus with tinted windows whisks the five youths away, leaving their parents behind.

Nov 14, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Tony Keith Jr. |Randy Boyagoda |Cheryl Hudson |Aubrey Hartman

Aubrey Hartman. Little, Brown, $17.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-3165-7572-0Clare, the undead fox of Deadwood Forest, is cast as a monster by the local children who gather each Halloween around the forest’s edge to chant about how he “waits to feast/ On little bones.” But Clare isn’t a monster: he’s an Usher, one who helps wandering souls find their way to their respective afterlife, be it Peace, Pleasure, Progress, or Pain.