Here we round up new and forthcoming children’s titles, including a YA novel set after a fatal accident, a modern-day adaptation of a literary classic, a picture book about a curious monster, and a fable about contentment.

Like Never and Always by Ann Aguirre. Tor Teen, $17.99; ISBN 978-0-7653-9758-4. High school junior Liv is out for a night of fun with her best friend Morgan, when a car accident changes everything. Liv wakes up hospitalized and in Morgan’s body, her own body long since buried. Living Morgan’s life appears to be the only way to stay out of a psychiatric unit, yet Liv quickly realizes just how much Morgan kept secret.

Wrong in All the Right Ways by Tiffany Brownlee. Holt, $17.99; ISBN 978-1-250-13053-2. In her YA debut, Brownlee models the ill-advised love affair between her protagonist, Emma, and Emma’s foster brother, Dylan, after Catherine and Heathcliff’s forbidden love in Wuthering Heights.

Ginny Goblin Is Not Allowed to Open This Box by David Goodner, illus. by Louis Thomas. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $17.99; ISBN 978-0-544-76415-6. In this picture book, a narrator eggs on a monster who is curious about a box’s contents.

Never Satisfied: The Story of the Stonecutter by Dave Horowitz. Penguin/Paulsen, $16.99; ISBN 978-0-399-54846-8. In this careful-what-you-ask-for story based on a Chinese folktale, a frog named Stanley yearns to ditch the drudgery of his stonecutting job.

Letting Go of Gravity by Meg Leder. Simon Pulse, $18.99; ISBN 978-1-5344-0316-1. In this YA novel, Leder (The Museum of Heartbreak) effectively shows how illness affects families and how a person can get stuck acting out a persona and end up knowing very little about herself.

The Adventure Zone: Here There Be Gerblins by Clint McElroy et al. First Second, $19.99; ISBN 978-1-250-15370-8. The McElroy family ups their metafictional wackiness in this comic adaptation of their podcast of the same name, which revolves around a live performance of the role-playing game The Adventure Zone.

Campfire by Shawn Sarles. Little, Brown/Patterson, $17.99; ISBN 978-0-316-51506-1. This gory teen horror novel starts when 16-year-old Maddie Davenport heads into the Colorado wilderness for a week with family and friends.

Hullmetal Girls by Emily Skrutskie. Delacorte, $17.99; ISBN 978-1-5247-7019-8. In this spacefaring adventure, mankind’s fate rests in the hands of people who have traded their humanity for cybernetic enhancements to become cyborg soldiers who serve the colonization fleet housing Earth’s refugees.

Pass Go and Collect $200: The Real Story of How Monopoly Was Invented by Tanya Lee Stone, illus. by Steven Salerno. Holt/Ottaviano, $18.99; ISBN 978-1-62779-168-7. In this nonfiction picture book, Stone (Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream) summarizes the contentious history of the ever-popular board game Monopoly.

Price of Duty by Todd Strasser. Simon & Schuster, $17.99; ISBN 978-1-4814-9709-1. This YA novel focuses on Jake, a young, wounded war hero returning home from an unspecified war “over there” with heavily conflicted feelings.

Mermaid School by Joanne Stewart Wetzel, illus. by Julianna Swaney. Knopf, $17.99; ISBN 978-0-399-55716-3. A mermaid’s first day of school is strikingly similar to the one experienced by her human counterparts.

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