by Barb Langridge | May 21, 2024 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
The Poet X meets A Very Large Expanse of Sea in a bold novel-in-verse starring a Persian American teen navigating his first crush, his family’s post-9/11 dynamics, andthe role of language in defining who we are. Omid needs the right words to connect with his newly met...
by Barb Langridge | May 21, 2024 | Graphic Non-Fiction
Growing up with undiagnosed OCD sure isn’t easy, and here Pan Cooke shares his own experiences with that condition in a graphic-novel memoir that is as funny as it is powerfully candid and openhearted. Pan Cooke is ten years old when anxious thoughts begin to take...
by Barb Langridge | May 21, 2024 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
The third book in the humorous, heartfelt, highly illustrated series about a girl who doodles to cope with her anxiety, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Sara Shepard. Little by little, Penny Lowry is making it through the fifth grade—with a bit of help from...
by Barb Langridge | May 21, 2024 | Picture Book
Bedtime Stories for Hard Days is a thoughtful, loving collection of very short rhyming stories to help children unwind after a day of heightened emotions. Inspired by the runaway success of Scott Stuart’s TikTok and Instagram series, Bedtime Stories for Hard...
by Barb Langridge | May 21, 2024 | Romance
My Fair Lady meets the classic teen film She’s All That in this charming and swoony new rom-com from Brian D. Kennedy, author of A Little Bit Country. Perfect for fans of What If It’s Us and She Gets the Girl. Wade Westmore is used to being in the...
by Barb Langridge | May 21, 2024 | Fantasy
Fans of Chloe Gong and Judy I. Lin will devour this Korean-inspired Alice in Wonderland retelling about two very wicked girls, forever bonded by blood and betrayal . . . In a world where Saints are monsters and Wonderland is the dark forest where they lurk, it’s been...
by Barb Langridge | May 21, 2024 | Suspense / Thriller / Horror
From the author of I Killed Zoe Spanos comes a “suspenseful and atmospheric” (Kirkus Reviews) YA thriller in the vein of The White Lotus and Karen M. McManus’s The Cousins following a doomed family reunion at a posh Caribbean resort, where old grudges and dangerous...
by Barb Langridge | May 21, 2024 | Non-Fiction
This young readers adaptation of the New York Times bestselling We Gather Together shares the true story of how Thanksgving became a national holiday and the way gratitude is looked at in America Fiction: Thanksgiving is an American holiday that began when the...
by Barb Langridge | May 21, 2024 | Graphic Novel / Comics / Manga
A set-in-his-ways housecat has his routine upended by an enthusiastic new puppy with a nose for solving mysteries in this first adorable book in a graphic novel chapter book series perfect for fans of InvestiGators and Narwhal and Jelly. Truffles the cat is the only...
by Barb Langridge | May 20, 2024 | Graphic Novel / Comics / Manga
It’s warm up time in this newest installment in the Brinkley Yearbook series. Will Alexandra make the cut and help the historically boys baseball team defend their 9-year championship title? Alexandra, also known as Al, has been playing baseball with her older...
