Hitting shelves next week are a picture book about two stuffed animals racing cars, a middle grade ghost story, and a psychological thriller about a group of teen girls.

Bob and Tom by Denys Cazet. Atheneum/Jackson, $17.99; ISBN 978-1-4814-6140-5. Cazet’s deadpan picture book introduces farm turkeys Bob and Tom, who may lack smarts but are well-matched pals all the same.

Daughter of the Burning City by Amanda Foody. Harlequin Teen, $19.99; ISBN 978-0-373-21243-9. In this YA novel, 16-year-old narrator Sorina is an illusion worker at a festival, who uses her ability to create freak show performers.

Refugee by Alan Gratz. Scholastic Press, $16.99; ISBN 978-0-545-88083-1. This novel follows the journeys of three refugees: 12-year-old Josef, who is fleeing Nazi Germany on a ship headed for Cuba in 1939; 11-year-old Isabel, leaving Cuba for the United States aboard a boat in 1994; and 12-year-old Mahmoud, leaving Syria in 2015 after a bomb destroys his family’s apartment building. The book earned a starred review from PW.

Billy Bloo Is Stuck in Goo by Jennifer Hamburg, illus. by Ross Burach. Scholastic Press, $16.99; ISBN 978-0-545-88015-2. Never mind how that giant heap of green goo got there, or why little Billy Bloo ignored the sign (on the title page) that reads “Whatever you do...do not go in the goo!” Now he’s stuck and so is everyone who comes along to extract him, in this picture book.

The Whole Sky by Heather Henson. Atheneum/Dlouhy, $16.99; ISBN 978-1-4424-1405-1. In this middle grade novel, 12-year-old Sky has spent her life working with horses, helping her father, who has passed on a special gift to her: both can speak to horses.

Wordplay by Adam Lehrhaupt, illus. by Jared Chapman. Scholastic/Levine, $17.99; ISBN 978-0-545-93428-2. In this picture book, Lehrhaupt (I Will Not Eat You) and Chapman (Fruits in Suits) personify parts of speech, turning them into playground pals.

Mama Lion Wins the Race by Jon J. Muth. Scholastic Press, $17.99; ISBN 978-0-545-85282-1. Mama Lion and Tigey—two gawky stuffed animals—are preparing for a car race along with the other toys in their town. The picture book earned a starred review from PW.

Spirit Hunters by Ellen Oh. Harper, $16.99; ISBN 978-0-06-243008-3. Harper Raine, 12, feels unsettled in her family’s new house in Washington, D.C.—especially in her four-year-old brother Michael’s oddly cold room. Michael’s new imaginary friend, Billy, seems harmless at first, but when Michael starts lashing out violently, Harper begins to reconsider the rumors of the house being haunted. The middle grade novel earned a starred review from PW.

Jack and the Beanstalk and the French Fries by Mark Teague. Orchard, $17.99; ISBN 978-0-545-91431-4. In this picture book, Teague uses the classic beanstalk story to lobby for vegetables—except beans, which he admits can be awful. The book earned a starred review from PW.

Little Monsters by Kara Thomas. Delacorte, $17.99; ISBN 978-0-553-52149-8. Thomas’s (The Darkest Corners) latest YA novel is a twisted and atmospheric dive into the psychology of teenage girls.

For more children’s and YA titles on sale throughout the month of July, check out PW’s full On-Sale Calendar.