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2 weeks ago | 
hbook.com | Adrienne L. Pettinelli |Sarah Ellis |Martha V. Parravano
This Is the Year by Gloria MuñozHigh School Holiday 368 pp. 1/25 9780823458363 $18.99e-book ed. 9780823462186 $11.99In this evocative near-future science fiction novel, high school senior Juli is still reeling from the death of her twin sister, Ofe, a year earlier.
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2 weeks ago | 
hbook.com | Eboni Njoku |Adrienne L. Pettinelli |Sarah Ellis |Martha V. Parravano
I Am the Swarm by Hayley ChewinsHigh School Viking 336 pp. 3/25 9780593623862 $19.99e-book ed. 9780593623879 $10.99In this Cape Town–set verse novel, each woman in the Strand family gains magical abilities when she turns fifteen. As Nell Strand approaches her fifteenth birthday, she is painfully aware of the potential dangers that can accompany this “gift.” Her older sister, Mora, carries songs underneath her skin—and has been hospitalized for trying to cut the music out.
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2 weeks ago | 
hbook.com | Patrick Gall |Adrienne L. Pettinelli |Sarah Ellis |Martha V. Parravano
A Home for Unusual Monsters [Kairos Files]by Shaun David HutchinsonIntermediate, Middle School Labyrinth Road/Random 288 pp. 2/25 9780593646335 $17.99e-book ed. 9780593646359 $10.99This sequel to The School for Invisible Boys (rev. 1/24) shifts its focus to twelve-year-old Samantha Osbourne, budding agent for the clandestine paranormal research group Kairos, as she navigates adolescence, grief, and monsters.
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2 weeks ago | 
hbook.com | S. R. Toliver |Adrienne L. Pettinelli |Sarah Ellis |Martha V. Parravano
Abeni and the Kingdom of Gold by P. Djèlí ClarkIntermediate, Middle School Starscape/Tor 368 pp. 4/25 9781250825858 $19.99e-book ed. 9781250825865 $11.99In this compelling sequel to Abeni’s Song (rev. 9/23), Abeni and her companions continue their quest to find the elder spirits who might protect Asha (the first book’s benevolent witch who here has been reborn as a child) from the malevolent Witch Priest.
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2 weeks ago | 
hbook.com | Adrienne L. Pettinelli |Sarah Ellis |Martha V. Parravano
The Bad Idea and Other Stories [Earl & Worm]by Greg Pizzoli; illus. by the authorPrimary Knopf 72 pp. 4/25 9780593649664 $10.99Library ed. 9780593649671 $13.99e-book ed. 9780593649688 $6.99In the first of three episodic chapters in this series debut, Worm is irritated by her new neighbor, Earl, a bird. “Why is he up so early?
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2 weeks ago | 
hbook.com | Elissa Gershowitz |Adrienne L. Pettinelli |Sarah Ellis |Martha V. Parravano
Once for Yes by Allie MillingtonIntermediate, Middle School Feiwel 272 pp. 3/25 9781250326980 $17.99e-book ed. 9781250326973 $9.99Millington’s debut (Olivetti, rev. 5/24) was about a sentient typewriter, and this offering begins with the observations of the Odenburgh, an apartment building and one of several narrative perspectives in a quirky and affecting novel. A year after the death of her sister Lina, Prue Laroe is dreading her own upcoming birthday.
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2 weeks ago | 
hbook.com | Sarah Ellis |Adrienne L. Pettinelli |Martha V. Parravano
When Sally O’Malley Discovered the Sea by Karen CushmanIntermediate, Middle School Knopf 240 pp. 3/25 9780593650578 $17.99Library ed. 9780593650585 $20.99e-book ed. 9780593650592 $10.99Sally, aged thirteen, is a plucky heroine in the best tradition of the orphan narrative. It’s 1894 in central Oregon, and Sally has had it with being demeaned, so she heads off on a journey west to discover the sea.
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2 weeks ago | 
hbook.com | Adrienne L. Pettinelli |Sarah Ellis |Martha V. Parravano
Wake the Wild Creatures by Nova Ren SumaHigh School Little, Brown 384 pp. 5/25 9781616206727 $18.99e-book ed. 9781523533275 $10.99This psychological mystery with hints of a feminist utopia taps into and explores contemporary live-wire issues: gender warfare, abuse, power, vigilantism, and disillusionment with society.
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2 weeks ago | 
hbook.com | Adrienne L. Pettinelli |Sarah Ellis |Martha V. Parravano
The Luna Sisters: Battle for the Moon Blossom [I Like to Read: Comics] by Dan Yaccarino; illus. by the authorPrimary Holiday 40 pp. 4/25 9780823456376 $14.99This comics-style beginning reader offers a sci-fi take on sibling rivalry. Artist Lucy and inventor Nera live on the moon in separate halves of the same large house.
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2 weeks ago | 
hbook.com | Deirdre Baker |Adrienne L. Pettinelli |Sarah Ellis |Martha V. Parravano
The Legendary Scarlett & Browne by Jonathan StroudMiddle School, High School Knopf 448 pp. 3/25 9780593707364 $17.99e-book ed. 9780593707388 $10.99Stroud has much to wrap up in this third (seemingly final) volume of the exploits of fearsome Scarlett McCain and disheveled, telepathically gifted Albert Browne.
