Jen St Jude

Mar 2, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | Jerry Craft |Maurene Goo |Justine Winans |Jen St Jude

Jen St. Jude. Bloomsbury, $19.99 (416p) ISBN 978-1-5476-1136-2On the morning that white 19-year-old Avery Byrne intends to take her own life by drowning in the river that winds through her Ivy League college campus, her phone blares with the same urgent message received across the world: a planet-destroying asteroid will strike Earth in nine days.

Mar 2, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | Jerry Craft |Maurene Goo |Justine Winans |Jen St Jude

Jerry Craft. Quill Tree, $24.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-06-288554-8; $14.99 paper ISBN 978-0-06-288553-1In this companion to Newbery winner New Kid and its sequel, Class Act, eighth grader Jordan Banks is excited about two things: his acceptance letter to the art school of his dreams, and traveling to Paris with his Riverdale Academy Day School classmates. But he’s also nervous; going to a new high school means leaving his best friends behind.

Mar 2, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | Jerry Craft |Maurene Goo |Justine Winans |Jen St Jude

Howard Calvert, illus. by Karen Obuhanych.

Mar 2, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | Jerry Craft |Maurene Goo |Justine Winans |Jen St Jude

Maurene Goo. Zando Young Readers, $19.99 (368p) ISBN 978-1-63893-020-4Sixteen-year-old Korean American Samantha Kang must figure out how to return to her own time after a ride-share app inexplicably transports the Gen Z teen to 1995 in this reflective Back to the Future–flavored jaunt by Goo (Somewhere Only We Know). Student politics in Sam’s racially diverse Los Angeles high school are a far cry from what they were when her mother, Priscilla, attended it.

Mar 2, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | Jerry Craft |Maurene Goo |Justine Winans |Jen St Jude

Claire Forrest. Scholastic Press, $19.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-338-81383-8A teen with cerebral palsy combats ableist school administrators while searching for the perfect college in Forrest’s refreshing and empowering debut. Because of her high school’s poor accessibility compliance, wheelchair user and senior Effie Galanos is used to her mother stepping in to campaign for proper accommodations.