Here we round up new and forthcoming children’s titles, including a ghost story that addresses weighty themes, a middle grade novel about friendships and fandom, a YA novel featuring a loner who finds someone to connect with, and a novel about a teen’s difficulties in the foster system.

Out of the Wild Night by Blue Balliett. Scholastic Press, $17.99; ISBN 978-0-545-86756-6. In this middle grade novel, two interrelated problems have raised tensions on Nantucket, a normally serene island off the Massachusetts coast: the first is a clash between a shortage of affordable housing and wealthy outsiders buying up homes, and the second is ghosts.

The Pros of Cons by Alison Cherry, Lindsay Ribar, and Michelle Schusterman. Scholastic/Point, $18.99; ISBN 978-1-338-15172-5. In this entertaining and sometimes slapstick testament to the power of friendship, three teenage girls—each attending a different convention held in the same location—help each other overcome their respective conflicts. The book earned a starred review from PW.

Emergency Contact by Mary H.K. Choi. Simon & Schuster, $17.99; ISBN 978-1-5344-0896-8. Unlike her flirtatious Korean mother, Penny Lee doesn’t have much of a social life, but she hopes that things will change when she goes off to college and makes a fast and intimate friend. The book earned a starred review from PW.

Losers Bracket by Chris Crutcher. Greenwillow, $17.99; ISBN 978-0-06-222006-6. Crutcher’s background as a mental health counselor informs his latest YA novel, about the harsh realities of what happens when kids are failed by both their parents and the state.

I Have Lost My Way by Gayle Forman. Viking, $18.99; ISBN 978-0-425-29077-4. After being brought together by an accident in New York City’s Central Park, three struggling teenagers quickly form a powerful friendship in Forman’s novel, which earned a starred review from PW.

The Girl with More Than One Heart by Laura Geringer Bass. Amulet, $16.99; ISBN 978-1-4197-2882-2. In this middle grade novel, Bass (Sign of the Qin) conveys the complex, conflicting emotions that arise in a family facing the unexpected death of a parent.

A Round of Robins by Katie Hesterman, illus. by Sergio Ruzzier. Penguin/Paulsen, $16.99; ISBN 978-0-399-54778-2. Hesterman debuts with a picture book of 16 poems that lightheartedly chart the development of a family of robins. The book earned a starred review from PW.

The Parker Inheritance by Varian Johnson. Scholastic/Levine, $16.99; ISBN 978-0-545-94617-9. In this middle grade novel, 12-year-old Candice finds a letter addressed to her late grandmother that promises treasure if the letter’s puzzle can be solved.

Heal the Earth by Julian Lennon with Bart Davis, illus. by Smiljana Coh. Sky Pony, $17.99; ISBN 978-1-5107-2853-0. The creators of Touch the Earth present another picture book set aboard the fanciful White Feather Flier —a vehicle that changes shape and function while traveling the planet on environmental and humanitarian missions.

Fox & Chick: The Party: And Other Stories by Sergio Ruzzier. Chronicle, $14.99; ISBN 978-1-4521-5288-2. Ruzzier (This Is Not a Picture Book!) kicks off a new comics-style early-chapter series, drawn with panels and dialogue balloons and starring an animal odd couple.

Honey by David Ezra Stein. Penguin/Paulsen, $16.99; ISBN 978-1-5247-3786-3. Stein returns to the ursine protagonist and forest setting of his picture book Leaves. The book earned a starred review from PW.

The Promise by Pnina Bat Zvi and Margie Wolfe, illus. by Isabelle Cardinal. Second Story, $18.95; ISBN 978-1-77260-058-2. The creators of this picture book draw on the harrowing true story of their relatives who survived the Holocaust.

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