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A Place for Us

3 weeks ago | publishersweekly.com | Jeannine Atkins |Katie Venit |Mariko Tamaki |Don Martin

James E. Ransome. Penguin/Paulsen, $18.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-593-32488-2In spectacularly composed signature-style spreads, Ransome (Fighting with Love) crafts a wordless story that centers an unhoused child and caretaker. From school pickup to drop-off, the close, familial-feeling figures, portrayed as Black, together navigate a bustling, New York City–like metropolis.
Verity Vox and the Curse of Foxfire

3 weeks ago | publishersweekly.com | Jeannine Atkins |Katie Venit |Mariko Tamaki |Don Martin

Don Martin. Page Street, $18.99 (336p) ISBN 979-8-89003-270-6As a teenage witch in training, Verity Vox—accompanied by her shape-shifting familiar, Jack—travels from one community to another, offering her magical services at no cost as practice toward perfecting her ability to cast spells through song and spoken spells. Her latest request, mysteriously delivered to Verity upon a leaf, reads: “We’re cursed...
Knocking on Windows

3 weeks ago | publishersweekly.com | Jeannine Atkins |Katie Venit |Mariko Tamaki |Don Martin

Jeannine Atkins. Atheneum, $19.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-6659-7754-8In this lucid, accessible verse memoir, Atkins (Green Promises) chronicles her experiences as a college freshman healing from the trauma of sexual violence and finding her voice through poetry. Circa 1972, 18-year-old Atkins returns to her Massachusetts childhood home to process “the word that ends one story and starts another.” When her stoic parents offer little support, she gains fleeting comfort from Sylvia Plath’s poetry.
This Place Kills Me

3 weeks ago | publishersweekly.com | Sarah Kuhn |Dave Baker |Nicole Goux |Jeannine Atkins

New girl Abby Kita gets swept up in a boarding school murder mystery in this gripping graphic novel from Tamaki (Anne of Greenville) and Goux (Pet Peeves). When fellow student Elizabeth Woodward—starring as Juliet in the Wilberton Theater Society production of Romeo and Juliet—is found dead in the woods wearing her stage costume, Abby quickly discovers that she was the last person to see Elizabeth alive.