Among titles hitting bookshelves next week are a picture book in which an unruly T. rex must care for a newly hatched dinosaur, a bestselling middle grade fantasy series continues, and an award-winning author addresses the anniversary of 9/11.
Grover Cleveland, Again!: A Treasury of American Presidents by Ken Burns, illus. by Gerald Kelley. Knopf, $25; ISBN 978-0-385-39209-9. Documentarian Burns offers up a picture book of presidential trivia.
The Ever Never Handbook by Soman Chainani, illus. by Michael Blank. HarperCollins, $17.99; ISBN 978-0-06-242305-4. This companion to Chainani’s The School for Good and Evil is written as a student handbook for students.
An Author’s Odyssey by Chris Colfer. Little, Brown, $19.99; ISBN 978-0-316-38329-5. In the fifth volume of Colfer’s bestselling Land of Stories series, Connor discovers that he must fight the Masked Man in his own stories.
Sticks & Stones by Abby Cooper. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $16.99; ISBN 978-0-374-30287-0. In this middle grade novel, sixth-grader Elyse was born with “cognadjivisibilitis,” a disorder in which the words that anyone uses to describe Elyse appear on her body for weeks at a time.
The Season by Jonah Lisa Dyer and Stephen Dyer. Viking, $17.99; ISBN 978-0-451-47634-0. In this contemporary retelling of Pride and Prejudice, Megan McKnight is a college soccer star and tomboy whose mother demands she go through the prestigious Dallas debutante season with her twin sister, Julia.
The Wolves of Currumpaw by William Grill. Nobrow, $24; ISBN 978-1-909263-83-3. Greenaway Medal-winner Grill (Shackleton’s Journey) offers up a haunting retelling of Ernest Thompson Seton’s short story about his attempt to capture Lobo, “a giant among wolves,” whose pack had been terrorizing settlers in the Currumpaw valley for years. The book earned a starred review from PW.
The Crimson Skew by S.E. Grove. Viking, $17.99; ISBN 978-0-670-78504-9. The final volume of the time-travelling middle grade Mapmakers Trilogy follows three friends trying to reconcile a desire to find home with burgeoning government intrigue.
Rex by Simon James. Candlewick, $16.99; ISBN 978-0-7636-7294-2. An irascible dinosaur has a change of heart when an egg hatches and he must learn to care for a baby dinosaur.
Freckleface Strawberry and the Really Big Voice by Julianne Moore, illus. by LeUyen Pham. Doubleday, $16.99; ISBN 978-0-385-39203-7. The girl who learns to embrace her freckles helps her friend learn the distinction between inside and outside voices.
Towers Falling by Jewell Parker Rhodes. Little, Brown, $16.99; ISBN 978-0-316-26222-4. Rhodes gives readers an entry point to consider the terrorist attacks of 9/11, as well as homelessness, discrimination, divorce, and other subjects.
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