Venom & Vow by Anna-Marie McLemore and Elliott McLemoreMiddle School, High School Feiwel 336 pp.5/23 9781250822239 $19.99e-book ed. 9781250822222 $11.99Gael, a highly trained assassin, is the male alter ego of Valencia, companion to the ruler of Eliana. Cade is the half-brother of the ruler of Adare, in a war against...
Unraveller by Frances HardingeMiddle School, High School Amulet/Abrams 432 pp.1/23 9781509836970 $19.99e-book ed. 9781647005627 $15.54In a magical land where anger grows like an egg inside certain people until it bursts into a destructive curse, quick-tempered Kellen has a special talent: through persistent sleuthing and his own lively intuition, he can...
The Carrefour Curse by Dianne K. SalerniIntermediate, Middle School Holiday 224 pp.1/23 9780823452675 $18.99e-book ed. 9780823455027 $10.99This spooky, dark, and utterly delicious tale begins with a bang: protagonist Garnet is vomiting up frogs, a pestilence that will ease only when she returns to Crossroad House, the house her mother grew...
The Girl from Earth’s End by Tara DairmanIntermediate Candlewick 384 pp.3/23 9781536224801 $18.99Raised by her two papas on a remote island (the setting is loosely based on the Azores), Henna has a gift for plants, so when she learns her papa Niall has incurable cancer, she vows to save him...
Wild Bird by Diane ZahlerIntermediate Roaring Brook 320 pp.3/23 9781250833402 $18.99e-book ed. 9781250833396 $10.99Rescued by an English sea captain and his son, Owen, after everyone in her medieval Norwegian village dies of the Black Death, Rype nurses the sailors when “the Sickness” comes to their ship as well. Sadly, Owen’s...
Mwikali and the Forbidden Mask [Intasimi Warriors]by Shiko NguruIntermediate Lantana 228 pp.10/22 9781913747930 $17.99Mwikali is nervous about her first day of school in Nairobi—at her old school in Chicago, her friend’s appendix burst after she drew a picture of it, and she was labeled a freak. But in Kenya things...
Ride On by Faith Erin Hicks ; illus. by the author; color by Kelly Fitzpatrick Middle School First Second 224 pp. g8/22 978-1-250-77281-7 $22.99Paper ed. 978-1-250-77282-4 $14.99 In this vivacious graphic novel by the author/illustrator of One Year at Ellsmere (rev. 7/20), horse-mad Norrie mistrusts...
Ghostcloud by Michael Mann Intermediate Peachtree 320 pp. g9/22 978-1-68263-518-6 $17.99e-book ed. 978-1-68263-519-3 $10.99 In a post-apocalyptic alternate London, twelve-year-old Luke Smith-Sharma is one of the kidnapped children enslaved as a coal shoveler under the Battersea Power Station. When Luke and new-girl Jess accidentally drop coal...
Sparrows in the Wind by Gail Carson Levine Middle School, High School Quill Tree/HarperCollins 352 pp. g10/22 978-0-06-303907-0 $17.99e-book ed. 978-0-06-303909-4 $10.99 Pleased with Cassandra’s offering, Apollo gives her the gift of prophecy, but when she turns down his sexual advances, he curses her so...