3. PENGUIN AND PUMPKIN
On Sale July 29!
BY SALINA YOON
Why This Book is Awesome:
Penguin is insanely adorable.
If his adventures in friendship
don’t melt your heart, you’re
probably dead inside.
Read It If You Love:
Animals, animals being
friends, bright colors,
happiness.
7. THE SPY CATCHERS OF MAPLE HILL
BY MEGAN FRAZER BLAKEMORE
On Sale May 6!
Why This Book Is Awesome:
We love Megan Frazer
Blakemore and we love Hazel
Kaplansky! Megan is poised
for big things and Hazel is
hilarious, spunky, frustrating,
and lovable.
Read This If You Love:
Meet
Megan
at TLA
and
ALA!
Harriet the Spy, Liar &
Spy, Three Times
Lucky, literary middle grade
fiction with well-drawn
characters and a great sense of
time and place.
8. LIFE ON MARS
BY JENNIFER BROWN
On Sale August 5!
Why This Book Is Awesome:
Jennifer ’s writing here is just
as amazing as it is in her teen
fiction. She also incorporates
tons of fun science facts into
this story of a
real, occasionally icky, and
always endearing boy.
Read This If You Love:
Dead End in Norvelt, Al
Capone Does My Shirts, funny
boy fiction, Jennifer ’s teen
books
9. WEDNESDAYS IN THE TOWER (PB)
BY JESSICA DAY GEORGE
On Sale May 6!
Why This Book Is Awesome:
Jessica’s story of a castle that
changes constantly and the
princess who maps it and
defends it (with her family) is
the best kind of fairy tale.
Plus, there’s griffins!
Read This If You Love:
Meet
Jessica
at BEA
and on
tour!
Howl’s Moving
Castle, Shannon Hale, fairy
tale retellings, strong girl
characters
12. SEARCHING FOR SKY
BY JILLIAN CANTOR
on sale 5/13
$17.99
AMD 30,000
Bloomsbury
Why This Book Is Awesome:
It’s a totally unique “reverse
dystopian” where the main character
goes from a “perfect” new world
back to our world. What if you
didn’t understand lies? Even more
insanely, what if you had never seen
a toilet before?
Read This If You Love:
Leila Sales and Jennifer Brown
(they both blurbed it!), Jillian
Cantor ’s adult book Margot,
contemporaries with a twist.
13. THE CHAPEL WARS
BY LINDSEY LEAVITT
On Sale May 6!
Why This Book Is Awesome:
No one writes contemporary like
Lindsey Leavitt! She’s funny, she’s
sweet, she writes books you can love
but can also give to actual teenagers.
Also: Vegas!
Read This If You Love:
Meg Cabot, Elizabeth
Eulberg, Stephanie Perkins, mostly
happy endings, books where parents
Meet
(and siblings and grandparents!) don’t
Lindsey
disappear and are actually somewhat
on tour!
normal and involved in the main
character ’s life
14. FOOL ME TWICE
BY MANDY HUBBARD
On Sale May 6!
Why This Book Is Awesome:
This is a fun contemporary
romance you can read in one
sitting! It’s part of our new
line of paperback originals
about wanting what (and
who) you can’t have!
Read This If You Love:
Interesting settings (dude
ranch!), easy reads, happy
endings
15. WISH YOU WERE ITALIAN
BY KRISTIN RAE
May 6!
Why This Book Is Awesome:
One word: Italy. Three
words: Hot Italian Guy. One
more word: Gelato.
Read This If You Love:
Fun
contemporaries, romance, bei
ng jealous (because you
WILL be jealous of the main
character! Remember:
Italy, gelato, etc.)
16. WHEN MR. DOG BITES
BY BRIAN CONAGHAN
On sale June 10!
Why This Book Is Awesome:
As Charlie Higson
said, it’s “funny, foulmouthed, and fantastic!”
Read This If You Love:
Meet
Brian at
ALA!
The Curious Incident of
the Dog in the NightTime, Smack, Butter, Briti
sh books, books that
feature unusual
characters, books about
friendship, books about
bullying
17. MY BEST FRIEND, MAYBE
BY CAELA CARTER
On sale June 3!
Why This Book Is Awesome:
This is a great look at a
friendship that seems
irrevocably broken . . . But
maybe isn’t . . . In Greece!
Read This If You Love:
18. TAKE BACK THE SKIES
BY LUCY SAXON
On Sale June 3!
Why This Book Is
Awesome:
TBTS takes place in a
totally new and original
world where travel is
done by skyships.
Read This If You Love:
Cinder, Throne of Glass
19. ONE PAST MIDNIGHT
BY JESSICA SHIRVINGTON
On Sale July 22!
Why This Book Is Awesome:
Even if you think you’ve read
every book about dual lives, the
writing and the characters here
make this one stand out.
Read This If You Love:
Pivot Point, Before I Fall
20. JUST LIKE THE MOVIES
BY KELLY FIORE
On Sale July 22!
Why This Book Is Awesome:
21. QUICKIE FALL PREVIEW!
Thursdays in the Ruins
A Matter of Magic
Fairytale Matchmaker
Throne of Glass #3
There Will Be Lies
The Last Good Day of the Year
Not in the Script
The Fire Artist
Mind Over Magic
And more!
