Caraval by Stephanie Garber. Flatiron, $18.99; ISBN 978-1-250-09525-1. At the start of Garber’s debut YA novel, the mysterious Master Legend invites sisters Scarlett and Donatella Dragna to attend Caraval – a magical multiday event that is part spectacle, part treasure hunt.
The Edge of Everything by Jeff Giles. Bloomsbury, $18.99; ISBN 978-1-61963-753-5. First-time novelist Giles combines an intense thriller plot with unique fantasy afterlife world-building in this YA novel.
The Dark Days Pact by Alison Goodman. Viking, $18.99; ISBN 978-0-670-78548-3. This historical YA novel set in 1812 London, which combines secret societies and the supernatural, continues the Lady Helen saga begun in The Dark Days Club.
Are You My Cuddle Bunny? by Sandra Magsamen. Scholastic/Cartwheel, $7.99; ISBN 978-0-545-92797-0. This novelty touch-and-feel board book features a mother and baby bunny.
Wires and Nerve by Marissa Meyer, illus. by Douglas Holgate. Feiwel and Friends, $21.99; ISBN 978-1-250-07826-1. The first volume in a new graphic novel series from the bestselling Lunar Chronicles author follows an android girl trying to maintain a peace between Earth and a colonized Moon, threatened by hybrid wolf soldiers.
Queen of Hearts: Blood of Wonderland by Colleen Oakes. HarperTeen, $17.99; ISBN 978-0-06-240976-8. The latest volume in Oakes’s serial YA retelling of Alice in Wonderland is told from the perspective of the Queen of Hearts.
Short by Holly Goldberg Sloan. Dial, $16.99; ISBN 978-0-399-18621-9. 11-year-old Julia Marks is cast as a Munchkin in a production of The Wizard of Oz, which forces her to challenge her perceptions of herself: being a dreamer isn’t necessarily a bad thing, and being short doesn’t mean one can’t do great things.
By Your Side by Kasie West. HarperTeen, $9.99 paper; ISBN 978-0-06-245586-4. After two high school students get locked in the local library over a three-day weekend, they end up sharing intimate details of their lives, even though Autumn is well aware that Dax’s “reputation wasn’t exactly stellar,” and he thinks she is a “naïve, spoiled priss.”
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