Jonaz McMillan

May 2, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Amanda Quain |Karen Kane |Jonaz McMillan |Erin Kelly

Quain (Ghosted) focuses on the youngest Dashwood sibling in this freewheeling Sense and Sensibility reimagining. Having watched her older sisters Elinor and Marianne live through contemporary versions of the trials and tribulations Austen’s readers will be familiar with, 18-year- old Margaret has vowed to avoid love entirely, modeling herself after sensible Elinor rather than newly single Marianne.

May 2, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Karen Kane |Jonaz McMillan |Erin Kelly |Kyo Maclear

Kyo Maclear, illus. by Gracey Zhang. Random House Studio, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-593-70608-4Dynamic spreads by Zhang pulse with energy as they capture the casual grace of Japan’s demae—cycling food deliverers—who, from the 1930s to the 1970s, per an end note, balanced stacked trays loaded with “ceramic soup bowls and wooden soba boxes” on one shoulder while piloting their bicycle with the other hand.

May 2, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Erin Kelly |Karen Kane |Kyo Maclear |Jonaz McMillan

In this engaging novel by Kelly (The First State of Being), eminently likable, curious eight-year-old Felix, who cues as white, is inexplicably drawn to a seemingly nondescript blanket in a thrift shop. Bearing his purchase, he returns to the home he shares with his nan (the kind of grandmother who serves dessert as dinner once a month).