Audacity Jones to the Rescue by Kirby Larson. “Audacity Jones is an eleven-year-old orphan who aches for adventure, a challenge to break up the monotony of her life at Miss Maisie’s School for Wayward Girls. Life as a wayward girl isn’t so bad; Audie has the best of friends, a clever cat companion, and plenty of books to read. Still, she longs for some excitement, like the characters in the novels she so loves encounter.” (Amazon blurb)
The Bitter Side of Sweet by Tara Sullivan. Three children, enslaved in a cocoa plantation in modern-day Ivory Coast, attempt escape. This book is by the same author who wrote Golden Boy about an albino boy in Tanzania.
The Goblin’s Puzzle: Being the Adventures of a Boy with No Name and Two Girls Called Alice by Andrew Chilton.
The Last Boy at St. Edith’s by Lee Gjertsen Malone. One boy is stuck in a girls’ school and decides to get himself expelled.
Pax by Sara Pennypacker, wonderful author of the Clementine books and of this book for adults. I’m sure this new book will be good, too.
Some Kind of Courage by Dan Gemeinhart. Boy goes after his stolen horse.
The Turn of the Tide by Roseanne Parry. Earthquake, tsunami, and second chances.
When Mischief Came to Town by Katrina Nannestad. Set in Denmark.
A Week Without Tuesday by Angelica Banks. Fantasy about a fairy tale world which collides with ours.
Raymie Nightingale by Kate DiCamillo. National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature and a two-time Newbery Medalist. ‘Nuff said.
Booked by Kwame Alexander. A new sports (soccer) verse novel by the Newbery author of The Crossover.
The Gallery by Laura Marx Fitzgerald. An art mystery set in the roaring twenties.
The Seventh Wish by Kate Messner. “Unsure of how to get her family’s attention, Charlie comes across the surprise of her life one day while ice-fishing . . . in the form of a floppy, scaly fish offering to grant her a wish in exchange for its freedom. Charlie can’t believe her luck until she realizes that this fish has a funny way of granting wishes.” (Amazon blurb)
If any publishers want to send me an ARC of any of these, I won’t turn it down.