Vanessa Torres

Sep 26, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Vanessa Torres |Kaitlyn Cavalancia |Matthew Cordell |Kristin Mahoney

Matthew Cordell. Random House Studio, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-593-64989-3Young narrator Janie has long been fascinated by owls: “Perfectly stout. Large, round eyes. Silent, knowing faces. Birds of the night.” In drawings filled with carefully hatched detail, Caldecott Medalist Cordell draws Janie busy on the floor, making drawing after drawing of owls; other vignettes show the child dressed in an owl costume and reading about the topic. But Janie has never seen a real owl. Not once.

Sep 26, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Vanessa Torres |Matthew Cordell |Kristin Mahoney |Kaitlyn Cavalancia

Kaitlyn Cavalancia. Disney Hyperion, $18.99 (400p) ISBN 978-1-368-09908-0Cavalancia spins a web of magic and deep-seated familial trauma in this dazzling fantasy murder-mystery debut.

Sep 26, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Vanessa Torres |Kaitlyn Cavalancia |Matthew Cordell |Kristin Mahoney

Vanessa L. Torres. Knopf, $19.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-59342-617-3Seventeen-year-old Estrella “Noche” Villanueva has been doing her solemn duty as a Lechuza for four years: at night, she shape-shifts into an owl and shepherds the souls of the dead into the beyond. Her already emotionally difficult job becomes impossible when her beloved girlfriend, Dante Fuentes, dies at 17. Rather than ushering her off this temporal plane, Noche leaves Dante’s spirit to dwell on Earth, visiting her every night.