Cheryl Hudson

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.

Nov 11, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Travis Jonker |Cheryl Hudson |Traci N. Todd |Kwame Alexander

Narrator Hippo loves being first in line among all the anthropomorphized animal students at school—Jonker (Just One Flake) writes, “I can make everyone go fast, I can make everyone go slow. I can suddenly stop and make everyone crash.

Nov 7, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Shawn Harris |Cheryl Hudson |Traci N. Todd |Kwame Alexander

Shawn Harris. Holiday House/Porter, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8234-5709-0In this sound-centric account of a riotous readaloud session from Caldecott Honoree Harris, a bearded caregiver in a blue top holds one side of a book while a child in a yellow shirt grasps the other. “Let’s be bees,” reads text on the first spread’s verso.

Nov 7, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Veeda Bybee |Joy McCullough |Cheryl Hudson |Traci N. Todd

Veeda Bybee and Joy McCullough. Aladdin, $18.99 (192p) ISBN 978-1-66595-073-2; $7.99 paper ISBN 978-1-6659-5072-5Bybee (A Few of My Favorite Things) and McCullough (Basil & Dahlia) team up in this hilarious series launch. On top of preparing to start sixth grade at Kagan Middle School, Jojo Lopez is struggling to adjust to a new family dynamic after moving in with her mother’s well-known catfluencer boyfriend Paul, aka Mr. Meow.