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An Instant New York Times Bestseller!
In their first collaboration since the Newbery Medal- and Caldecott Honor-winning Last Stop on Market Street, Matt de la Peña and Christian Robinson deliver a poignant and timely new picture book that's sure to be an instant classic.
*A Today Show Gift Guide Pick!*
Jacqueline Woodson is the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People's Literature
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!
Jacqueline Woodson's first middle-grade novel since National Book Award winner Brown Girl Dreaming celebrates the healing that can occur when a group of students share their stories.
A National Book Award Finalist!
In kindergarten, Jarrett Krosoczka's teacher asks him to draw his family, with a mommy and a daddy. But Jarrett's family is much more complicated than that. His mom is an addict, in and out of rehab, and in and out of Jarrett's life. His father is a mystery -- Jarrett doesn't know where to find him, or even what his name is.$17.99ISBN: 9781368014137Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Freeform - November 6th, 2018"I'm not saying this is Sawyer's fault," the prim and proper one said delicately. "But."$19.99ISBN: 9780316341714Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers - October 2nd, 2018The highly anticipated, thrilling sequel to the New York Times bestseller, Strange the Dreamer, from National Book Award finalist Laini Taylor, author of the bestselling Daughter of Smoke & Bone trilogy.$27.00ISBN: 9781984823014Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Hogarth - November 13th, 2018“An addictive Rubik’s Cube of vice that keeps turning up new patterns of depravity… a satire of writerly ambition wrapped in a psychological thriller… A Ladder to the Sky is an homage to Patricia Highsmith, Oscar Wilde and Edgar Allan Poe, but its execution is entirely Boyne’s own." -- Ron Charles, Washington Post
$27.95ISBN: 9780393244106Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: W. W. Norton & Company - October 2nd, 2018Few writers can enter their characters so completely or evoke their lives as viscerally as Andre Dubus III. In this deeply compelling new novel, a father, estranged for the worst of reasons, is driven to seek out the daughter he has not seen in decades.
$20.00ISBN: 9780451491336Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Berkley - October 23rd, 2018A life-affirming anthem to kindness and self-sacrifice, The Travelling Cat Chronicles shows how the smallest things can provide the greatest joy.
$27.99ISBN: 9781250095473Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: St. Martin's Press - October 16th, 2018The riveting novel of iron-willed Alva Vanderbilt and her illustrious family as they rule Gilded-Age New York, from the New York Times bestselling author of Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald.
$27.00ISBN: 9780525534327Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Riverhead Books - October 23rd, 2018"An amazing achievement...A compulsively readable novel, so canny and weird and surfeited with the reality of human capacity and ingenuity that I am stymied for comparison. Dickens and David Lynch? Defoe meets Margaret Atwood? Judge for yourself." --Gregory Maguire, New York Times bestselling author of Wicked
$15.00ISBN: 9780399587689Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Berkley - October 30th, 2018THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"There is so much to relate to and throughout the novel, there is a sharp feminist edge. Loved this one, and you will too."--New York Times bestselling author Roxane Gay$28.00ISBN: 9781476740188Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Simon & Schuster - October 16th, 2018A WASHINGTON POST TOP 10 BOOK OF THE YEAR * A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“A constant pleasure to read…Everybody who loves books should check out The Library Book.” —The Washington Post
“CAPTIVATING…DELIGHTFUL.” —Christian Science Monitor * “EXQUISITELY W$28.00ISBN: 9780316438063Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Little, Brown Spark - September 18th, 2018From Pulitzer Prize finalist Ben Montgomery, the story of a Texas man who, during the Great Depression, walked around the world -- backwards.
