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Jan 2, 2025 | 
publishersweekly.com | James Robinson |Mahogany L. Browne |Jen Calonita
Ava Reid. HarperCollins, $19.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-321155-1A trained mercenary falls in love with her mark in this grim dystopia from Reid (A Study in Drowning). After undergoing intense physical and psychological reconditioning, teenage Melinoë becomes an assassin for Caerus, the corporation that controls New Amsterdam through civilian debt. Meanwhile, 17-year-old Inesa has spent her life trying to keep her family afloat.
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Jan 2, 2025 | 
publishersweekly.com | Candace Fleming |James Robinson |Mahogany L. Browne |Jen Calonita
Is It Real? The Loch Ness Monster“You are an investigator for the Black Swan Scientific Investigation (BSSI) team,” Fleming (The Enigma Girls) declares in the opening chapter of this interactive foray into unraveling “the natural world’s greatest mysteries”—in this instance, the legend of the Loch Ness Monster.
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Jan 2, 2025 | 
publishersweekly.com | James Robinson |Mahogany L. Browne |Jen Calonita |Angie Kang
Angie Kang. Kokila, $19.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-593-69823-5Kang debuts with a deeply felt story about siblings returning to a cherished place—“Brother is taking me up to swim in the lake like Father used to.” In loosely painted, expressive gouache, crayon, and colored pencil spreads, two figures head up a slope amid deeply saturated blues, greens, and magentas. The duo prepare to swim in the bright sun: “Brother takes off his shirt. I take off my shirt. Brother stretches.
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Jul 29, 2024 | 
books.disney.com | Jen Calonita |Farrah Rochon |Gretchen McNeil |Emma Theriault
Mona can name anyone’s soulmate—but she’ll do anything to avoid being matched with her own. Especially when she learns he’s the king. This debut romantasy perfect for fans of Sarah J. Maas and Rebecca Yarros delivers sizzling romance, cutthroat competition, a lush fantasy world, and an unforgettable heroine. “Fans of Rebecca Yarros and Sarah J.
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Jul 29, 2024 | 
books.disney.com | Jen Calonita |Liz Braswell |Mari Mancusi |Trudi Trueit
The fourth book in an exciting middle grade series that features the adventures of Disney’s most lovable roguish heroes as kids!Before he saved Mount Olympus…Hercules was just a boy trying to find his way. “How am I supposed to prove myself a hero if no one will give me a chance?”Twelve-year-old Hercules doesn’t fit in. He’s awkward and clumsy, and his excessive strength tends to be more hurtful than it is helpful.
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Jul 5, 2024 | 
registerherald.com | Dav Pilkey |Jen Calonita |Coral Ripley |J.B. Cheaney
Summer is here and that means the kids are home. Get some quiet time this summer with these books for young adults and young readers. Keep their minds active with an adventure between the pages of a book. It is recommended that children of all ages should read at least 20 minutes a day. Reading can help their academic success, and exposes kids to a vast quantity of words. It can improve their writing skills, and enhance their imaginations. It is proven they do better on their test scores.
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May 30, 2024 | 
books.disney.com | Jen Calonita |Mari Mancusi |Sajni Patel |Allison Saft
Disney’s New York Times best-selling A Twisted Tale series meets perennial fan-favorite The Nightmare Before Christmas, asking“What if Sally discovered Christmas Town instead of Jack?”Sally has mostly loved her creepy hometown of Halloween Town. But lately, she can’t help but want something more. In a place full of the frightening, you’d think living in the shadows wouldn’t feel so . . . isolating.
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Mar 29, 2024 | 
books.disney.com | Kendare Blake |George Mann |Jen Calonita |Liz Braswell
This epic finale to the Buffy: The Next Generation trilogy by New York Times bestselling author Kendare Blake (Three Dark Crowns) features the next generation of Scoobies and Slayers who must defeat a powerful new evil. For generations, the Slayer was supposed to be the chosen, the one girl in all the world with the power to stand against the vampires, demons, and forces of darkness. When Willow used the scythe to call up all the potential slayers at once, it changed everything.
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Feb 28, 2024 | 
books.disney.com | Sajni Patel |Mari Mancusi |George Mann |Jen Calonita
Lemonade Mouth meets climate change activism in this enemies-to-lovers YA romance. A tied election throws two rival teen activists together to lead their school’s environmental justice club, and they are taken by surprise when their clashes reveal deeper feelings hidden beneath their antagonism. What’s more romantic than saving the earth? Two presidents. One club. A sizzling connection. Isa Brown wishes her life would slow down. She doesn’t want to leave for college.
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Feb 28, 2024 | 
books.disney.com | Sajni Patel |Mari Mancusi |George Mann |Jen Calonita
The action and adventure of Percy Jackson meets the complex heroines of The Cruel Prince as a family of valkyries fight to stop Ragnarök. For seventeen-year-old Bryn, being the youngest, messiest, most rebellious sister in a family of valkyries isn’t easy. Especially considering home is a Renaissance faire in Chicago full of costumed workers who see her as nothing more than a nuisance. When her mother disappears on a mission for Odin, Bryn begins having strange visions about the impending Ragnarök.
